Del Shannon
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Audio interviews
Interview by Ellen Sander, Rock's Backpages Audio, 27 October 1983
The 'Runaway' man on the trials and tribulations of being a still-creative musician on the "oldies" circuit; songwriting; working with Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty and Dave Edmunds; and his insecurities and struggle with alcohol.
File format: mp3; file size: 50.5mb, interview length: 55' 11" sound quality: ***
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Obituary by Dave Laing, The Guardian, 18 July 2012
One of the last surviving members of the Funk Brothers, the backbone of Tamla Motown ...
Obituary by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 22 March 1990
The pioneering rocker takes his own life after waging a losing battle with chronic depression ...
Del Shannon on Tom Petty and Drop Down and Get Me
Retrospective by Stephen K. Peeples, stephenkpeeples.com, 8 January 2017
ROCK 'N' ROLL HALL of Fame member Del Shannon of 'Runaway', 'Hats Off to Larry' and 'Little Town Flirt' renown in the early '60s – ...
Obituary by Bill Holdship, L.A. Weekly, 22 February 1990
THE MOST tragic thing would be for Del Shannon to be lumped with, as he sometimes was in the past, all the Bobbys and Frankies ...
Memoir by Gary Pig Gold, Segarini, 16 February 2021
RELEASED PRECISELY Sixty (!) Years Ago This Very Month: One of the absolutely greatest Rock 'n' Roll recordings EVER. Now, fast forward a quarter century ...
The Unseen Side of Del Shannon
Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 13 February 1965
THE IMAGE of Del Shannon is probably one of the most one-sided in the business. The man who in the last four years has built ...
Del Shannon: A year ago he was just a G.I.
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 27 May 1961
First time in the Twenty — DEL SHANNON ...
Del Loves England, But It Hurts His Pocket
Report and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 11 May 1963
DISC TALKS TO DEL SHANNON AND JOHNNY TILLOTSON ...
Del Shannon Digs 'Nutty' Sounds
Interview by Ian Dove, Record Mirror, 22 September 1962
THE 'RUNAWAY' SINGER WANTS TO SEE SOME FOOTBALL ...
Chuck Berry, Del Shannon: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 25 February 1967
FREAK OUTS forget — it's rock riots yet! Those smashing days of the fifties are back, and for evidence see the pile of broken seats ...
Del Shannon: Pop Before the Beatles
Obituary by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 10 February 1990
THE APPARENT suicide of Del Shannon at his home in California puts the final tragic twist to a story which began well with a string ...
Profile by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 10 March 1962
BY NOW, mix-ups seem to be an integral pact of DEL SHANNON'S recording career. ...
Del Shannon: Home And Away – The Complete Recordings 1960-1970
Review by Bob Stanley, MOJO, January 2005
Eight CDs tell the story of one of the '60s' most original rockers, a doomed romantic whose arrested adolescence made him a star but never ...
Buried Treasure: Del Shannon's Home And Away
Retrospective by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, February 2001
US pop singer hits London, meets Andrew Oldham, makes psych classic. ...
Del Shannon, Back in the Charts With 'Two Silhouettes', Says... I Won't Come to Britain Too Often
Report and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 31 August 1963
DEL SHANNON'S back in the charts with 'Two Silhouettes' — a number he chose while he was in Surrey on his last British trip! ...
The Supremes, the Righteous Brothers, the Beau Brummels et al: Cow Palace, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Mike Gormley, The Ottawa Journal, 27 February 1965
Righteous Sound Shakes 'Frisco ...
Del And Roy Hope To Tour Here Again — But Together
Report and Interview by Jean Carol, Disc, 8 June 1963
ROY ORBISON and Del Shannon have formed a mutual admiration society! More than anything, these two American stars would love to make a British tour ...
Del Shannon, Herman's Hermits, Wayne Fontana, Twinkle: City Hall, Sheffield
Live Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 6 March 1965
DEL'S MAGIC ...
Del Shannon: A Great Tour But Del's Happy To Be Home
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 22 June 1963
DEL SHANNON gulped down a bottle of coke, lit a cigar and leaned back in his leather upholstered chair. On his last night in England, ...
Dion And Buzz Have a Swinging Day in Britain
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 15 September 1962
...at the invitation of DISC! ...
'I Can't Wait To Get Back' Says Del Talking About His British Tour
Report and Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 23 February 1963
DEL SHANNON, fast becoming a contender for the "Mr. Consistency" department of pop, took time off from a session on his new L.P. to scatter ...
Del Shannon on The British Scene
Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 12 October 1963
PETER JONES TALKS TO DEL SHANNON AND GETS SOME INTERESTING VIEWS ...
Del Shannon: 'My Success Changed My Friends'
Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 23 January 1965
ONE OF THE chief attractions about Del Shannon is his own individual style of singing and guitar playing. So it'll come as a shock to ...
Del Shannon: Rock's Runaway Returns
Profile and Interview by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, April 1975
THEY'RE ALL COMING back. Sedaka, Anka and Vinton hit the top of the charts again, but you all know that story backwards and forwards. Almost ...
Fugitive Kind of Love: Del Shannon
Interview by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, June 1982
"THERE WAS A girl I thought was really in love with me. I mean, my heart would pound when she came around. She gave me ...
The Return of the 'Runaway' Man: Del Shannon
Report by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, January 1974
COMEBACKS ARE becoming as common as oldies these days. When you think about it, rock & roll has been around some twenty years now, with ...
30 Years of Teardrops: from Del Shannon’s ‘Runaway’ to Tom Petty’s ‘Refugee’
Retrospective and Interview by Cynthia Rose, unpublished, 1983
THE SPACE inside our souls where real dreams arise is created by a particular breed of gambler: the emotional, sexually aware, desperately honest human who ...
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