Mary Margaret O'Hara

Mary Margaret O'Hara (1989)

Interview by Martin Aston, Rock's Backpages audio, 4 March 1989

The Canadian songstress on the making of her album Miss America: how she co-produces her music; her wildness onstage; comparisons with Van Morrison and Patti Smith; disputes with Virgin Records over her recording direction, and being helped by Joe Boyd; her acting career; about herself as a singer; rock critics' views of her, and on her favourite songs on the album.

File format: mp3; file size: 61mb, interview length: 1h 03' 34" sound quality: ***

Mary Margaret O'Hara: Discreet Enquiries

Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 11 March 1989

MARY'S MISS AMERICA WAS LAUDED AS ONE OF THE MOST STARTLING AND FRESH ALBUMS OF '88, SHE MESSED UP HER LIP-SYNCH ON THE 'BODY'S IN ...

Mary Margaret O'Hara: Mary Mary Quite Contrary

Interview by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 2 December 1989

Gawky Canuck MARY MARGARET O'HARA unfit for Irish TV shock! So should we be flinging her magical-pop-with-freaky-dancing at our kids? Most deffo, reckons MICHELE KIRSCH. ...

Mary Margaret O'Hara: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 18 July 1992

THE NIGHT is only three songs old when a lone, drunken heckler decides he's had enough. "Stop singing, Margaret," he admonishes. "You'd better stop that ...

Mary Margaret O'Hara: Christmas wishes from Canada's psychic singer-songwriter

Interview by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 5 December 2008

DOWN THE WIRES from Canada comes Mary Margaret O'Hara, her voice as devastatingly delicate as shattering glass. ...