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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.
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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.
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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...
Merry gentlemen: Record Mirror's Rob Partridge meets the skin-headed Slade in 1969 and Let It Rock's Lester Bangs feels the band's noize in late 1972. Plus Pete Silverton hails the healing power of Christmas hits like 'Merry Xmas Everybody'.
Man of the World: Adam Sweeting asks Peter Gabriel about being in therapy, seeing Otis Redding live, new album Us... and the ex-Genesis frontman's distaste for the term "World Music" (July 1992).
Easlea does it: Daryl Easlea salutes the "good times" of Chic's peak period (2001), relives his Canvey Island youth in a piece about Julien Temple's Dr. Feelgood documentary (2010) and looks back on Genesis with Mike Rutherford (2014). Plus Chris Charlesworth reviews and heartily approves of Daryl's brand-new Slade biography.
Gone now: Melody Maker's Nick Jones sees former Moody Blue Denny Laine (1944-2023) live at London's UFO in July 1967 and Guitar World's Bill DeMain hears about Wings in Laine's last interview in January this year. Plus audio of Shane MacGowan (1957-2023) speaking to Mat Snow in February 1986; Gavin Martin meeting the Pogues in summer 1983; and Mick Brown talking to MacGowan in 1997.
New episode: in a pre-Xmas special, Daryl Easlea discusses his Slade book, listens to a Peter Gabriel audio interview and pays tribute to the Pogues' Shane MacGowan.
Merry gentlemen: Record Mirror's Rob Partridge meets the skin-headed Slade in 1969 and Let It Rock's Lester Bangs feels the band's noize in late 1972. Plus Pete Silverton hails the healing power of Christmas hits like 'Merry Xmas Everybody'.
Easlea does it: Daryl Easlea salutes the "good times" of Chic's peak period (2001), relives his Canvey Island youth in a piece about Julien Temple's Dr. Feelgood documentary (2010) and looks back on Genesis with Mike Rutherford (2014). Plus Chris Charlesworth reviews and heartily approves of Daryl's brand-new Slade biography.
Gone now: Melody Maker's Nick Jones sees former Moody Blue Denny Laine (1944-2023) live at London's UFO in July 1967 and Guitar World's Bill DeMain hears about Wings in Laine's last interview in January this year. Plus audio of Shane MacGowan (1957-2023) speaking to Mat Snow in February 1986; Gavin Martin meeting the Pogues in summer 1983; and Mick Brown talking to MacGowan in 1997.
Tomorrow the world: Charles Shaar Murray reports on the Ramones and more from Hilly Kristal's CBGB – the downtown New York dive that celebrates its 50th birthday next week (New Musical Express, 8 November 1975).
Man of the World: Adam Sweeting asks Peter Gabriel about being in therapy, seeing Otis Redding live, new album Us... and the ex-Genesis frontman's distaste for the term "World Music" (July 1992).
New episode: in a pre-Xmas special, Daryl Easlea discusses his Slade book, listens to a Peter Gabriel audio interview and pays tribute to the Pogues' Shane MacGowan.
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New podcast episode
Daryl Easlea on Slade, Peter Gabriel & the Pogues
