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Rock's Backpages is the world's most comprehensive online database of pop music writing, a unique resource unavailable elsewhere online. It contains an
ever-expanding collection of primary-source full-text articles from the music and mainstream press from the 1950s to the present day, along with a collection of
exclusive audio interviews.
Subscriptions to Rock’s Backpages are available for institutional or personal use.
For institutions, Rock's Backpages is provided as an unlimited access subscription, meaning that all staff, students and library patrons have
unrestricted remote and on-site access to each text and audio file in the database. For full terms, please click here.
Please visit our Institutional Subscriptions page for further information and to arrange for a trial or quote.
Welcome to the world's largest archive of music journalism, featuring over 50,000 articles on artists from Aaliyah to ZZ Top, with a new edition every Friday. Enter the library...
Reelin' (and rockin') in the years: Chuck Berry tells Guy Stevens how he writes his songs (Record Mirror, 1964), meets Sound of the City author Charlie Gillett in 1973 and gives Q's Tom Hibbert a hard time in 1988. Plus Vintage Rock's David Burke examines Chuck's final years in 2017…
Rap sheet: Ice-T talks to Andy Gill about Iceberg Slim, inventing West Coast gangsta rap, his thrash-metal band Body Count... and playing a cop in New Jack City (1991).
Straight into Compton: Chuck Berry biographer RJ Smith reports on the legal war within N.W.A. (1990) and chats with L.A. piano-blues legend Charles Brown (1997). Plus, in a 2006 interview, Steven Ward hears about RJ's journey to L.A. via Detroit and New York…
He did it right: NME's Nick Kent meets Dr. Feelgood's Wilko Johnson (1947-2022) in 1974 and The Guardian's Dorian Lynskey talks to the protopunk R&B guitarist after his cancer diagnosis in 2013. Plus Smash Hits' Ian Birch asks Irene Cara (1959-2022) about Flashdance in 1983 and Melody Maker's Andrew Means meets Scots folkie Rab Noakes (1947-2022) in 1970...
Reelin' (and rockin') in the years: Chuck Berry tells Guy Stevens how he writes his songs (Record Mirror, 1964), meets Sound of the City author Charlie Gillett in 1973 and gives Q's Tom Hibbert a hard time in 1988. Plus Vintage Rock's David Burke examines Chuck's final years in 2017…
Straight into Compton: Chuck Berry biographer RJ Smith reports on the legal war within N.W.A. (1990) and chats with L.A. piano-blues legend Charles Brown (1997). Plus, in a 2006 interview, Steven Ward hears about RJ's journey to L.A. via Detroit and New York…
He did it right: NME's Nick Kent meets Dr. Feelgood's Wilko Johnson (1947-2022) in 1974 and The Guardian's Dorian Lynskey talks to the protopunk R&B guitarist after his cancer diagnosis in 2013. Plus Smash Hits' Ian Birch asks Irene Cara (1959-2022) about Flashdance in 1983 and Melody Maker's Andrew Means meets Scots folkie Rab Noakes (1947-2022) in 1970...
Rap sheet: Ice-T talks to Andy Gill about Iceberg Slim, inventing West Coast gangsta rap, his thrash-metal band Body Count... and playing a cop in New Jack City (1991).
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