Library Rock's Backpages

Search Results

By Date | By Relevance

1301 articles found. Page 65 of 66. | Advanced Search

1301 articles found. Page 65 of 66.

Advanced Search

1975, The: The 1975: Notes on a Conditional Form

Review by Nick Hasted, The Arts Desk, 21 May 2020

The band's fourth album lunges for meaning with its monologue by Greta Thunberg and foresees social isolation. ...

Simon & Garfunkel, Paul Simon: Simon & Garfunkel and the battle of Central Park: Inside the concert that tore them apart

Retrospective by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 3 June 2020

IN THE SUMMER of 1981, Paul Simon received a call from the Long Island concert promoter Ron Delsener. The 44-year-old Tri-State impresario was speaking on ...

Khruangbin, Bananagun: Bananagun: The True Story of Bananagun/Khruangbin: Mordechai

Review by Wayne Robins, Copper, 27 July 2020

BANANAGUN HAD ME won over with their name, a readymade punch line for a mild risqué joke often attributed to the actress Mae West. "Is ...

Frank Turner: Live rock returns, from a distance: inside Frank Turner's "government-endorsed" pilot concert

Review by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 29 July 2020

AT FOUR PM on Tuesday 28th July, the English singer Frank Turner leans over a table in a small room in South West London and ...

Malcolm McLaren: Jewish manager as professional troublemaker

Retrospective by Gary Lucas, Please Kill Me!, 13 October 2020

A new doorstopper-sized (900+ pages) biography of Malcolm McLaren by Paul Gorman got musician Gary Lucas thinking about one part of the former Sex Pistol/Bow ...

Steve Lukather, Toto: Steve Lukather: 33/3rd

Interview by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, 25 March 2021

STEVE LUKATHER has played on countless records owned and streamed worldwide. For most musicians, just being a founder member and only constant of Toto would ...

Desmond Child

Interview by Larry LeBlanc, Celebrity Access, 29 March 2021

This week In the Hot Seat with Larry LeBlanc: Desmond Child, songwriter and producer. ...

Gordon Lightfoot: Gord's Gold

Interview by Max Bell, Record Collector, April 2021

  THE VOICE ON the other end of the line is hesitant. The hearing is none too good. Talking on the phone is a challenge. "Can ...

"He was our Google": Fred Dellar, 1931-2021

Special Feature by Various Writers, Rock's Backpages, May 2021

I REMEMBER being slightly shocked when I heard that Fred Dellar was going to turn 80 years old. A decade later, he has died just ...

Keith Altham at 80: An Appreciation

Memoir by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, May 2021

TWENTY YEARS AGO, when I co-founded Rock's Backpages with Mark Pringle and Martin Colyer, one of the first names on our Wants List was Keith. ...

Bob Dylan: Shadow Kingdom: The Early Songs of Bob Dylan

Review by Liz Thomson, The Independent, 19 July 2021

Dylan, now 80, shattered expectations with this mesmerising livestream concert ...

Lithofayne Pridgon, a muse to musicians and likely inspiration for Jimi Hendrix's 'Foxy Lady', dies

Obituary by Chris Campion, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2021

LITHOFAYNE PRIDGON, Jimi Hendrix's long-term girlfriend and the likely inspiration for one of his most popular and enduring songs, 'Foxy Lady', spent most of her ...

Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Sid Vicious: Inside the Chelsea Hotel, New York's infamous house of pleasure and pain

Retrospective by Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph, 18 August 2021

Bob Dylan has just been accused of a sexual assault there in 1965 - the latest in a long line of claims about the storied ...

Orla Gartland: DIY 'til she dies

Interview by Pip Williams, The Line of Best Fit, 19 August 2021

Tomorrow, Orla Gartland releases her debut album, Woman On The Internet. In the decade since the Irish singer/songwriter began uploading tracks to YouTube as a ...

Jack Kerouac: Still Rockin' in the Beat world

Essay by Simon Warner, Perfect Sound Forever, October 2021

How Kerouac cool continues to fuel popular music passions as the writer's Centenary nears in 2022 ...

Dionne Warwick: For the Love of Dionne

Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, Oldster, 6 October 2021

A new documentary and an art exhibit put 80-year-old Dionne Warwick back in the spotlight. But as far as journalist and critic Michael A. Gonzales ...

Gilles Peterson: Lockdown FM: Broadcasting in a Pandemic

Book Review by John L. Walters, Eye, Fall 2021

GILLES PETERSON is known for his unfeasibly large record collection and an unstoppable enthusiasm for Black music. The pandemic forced radical changes to the DJ's ...

Sex Pistols, X-Ray Spex: Oh Bondage! Up Yours

Retrospective by Paul Gorman, MacGuffin, August 2022

AS SIMULTANEOUS SYMBOLS of subjugation and liberation, chains were co-opted in the bricolage approaches to the hundreds, if not thousands, of individualistic identities — in ...

Larry Uttal and Bell Records

Book Excerpt by Mitchell Cohen, 'Looking for the Magic' (Trouser Press Books), Summer 2022

This is the first of two excerpts on RBP from Mitchell Cohen's book Looking for the Magic: New York City, the '70s and the Rise ...

Clive Davis and Arista Records

Book Excerpt by Mitchell Cohen, 'Looking for the Magic' (Trouser Press Books), Summer 2022

This is the second of two excerpts on RBP from Mitchell Cohen's book Looking for the Magic: New York City, the '70s and the Rise ...


Advanced Search

back to LIBRARY

COPYRIGHT NOTICE