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Jimi Hendrix: The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland 40th Anniversary Collectors Edition
Film/DVD Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, March 2009
CHAS CHANDLER, whose avuncular Geordie tones weave in and out of this absorbing "Making Of" doc, recalled the sessions for Electric Ladyland as "a long-drawn-out ...
Love, Arthur Lee: Arthur Lee in LA (1993)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, 24 June 1993
The sometime Love leader talks about growing up in Memphis and South-Central L.A. and recalls his dreams of being a musician. He also describes a gay near-miss with Jimi Hendrix, rants about hip-hop, and spouts a lot of New Age gibberish.
File format: mp3 File size: 91mb Interview length: 1h 34 minutes 45 seconds Sound quality: **
Michael Jackson, Prince: Match of the Fey: Prince and Michael Jackson
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 13 July 1988
PRINCE BEGGED an interviewer seven years ago: "Just don’t compare me to Michael Jackson." Few could then have guessed there would ever be a need ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, 9 October 2013
The man who produced the Woodstock festival talks about the importance of its name; moving to the town in 1968; the major figures around town: The Band, Bob Dylan and Albert Grossman; the notable people and places in the vicinity, including Jimi Hendrix, Tim Hardin and Fred Neil; the relationship between town and festival; his Just Sunshine label and its abiding cult signing Karen Dalton; the town's incestuousness; the Bearsville label and studio, and Todd Rundgren; the 1994 festival... and Woodstock today.
File format: mp3; file size: 65.2mb, interview length: 1h 07' 55" sound quality: ***
Comment by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 20 May 1991
Barney Hoskyns on the continuing power struggle between black and white influences in popular music ...
Stan Cornyn with Paul Scanlon: Exploding (Harper Entertainment)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, June 2002
"THE REALLY important factor was that we were a younger company than Columbia," Warners insider Stan Cornyn said in 1993. "We weren't structured so tightly ...
The Who: Long Live Rock: The Who
Comment by Barney Hoskyns, Independent on Sunday, 2 February 2010
ARGUABLY THE MOST famous line The Who's Pete Townshend ever wrote was "Hope I die before I get old" on 1965's angry young anthem 'My ...
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, cdnow.com, 12 May 2000
NAMED AFTER a legendary 1976 EP by Sonic’s Rendezvous Band, the German label City Slang has been home to some of the best and most ...
Bob Dylan: Going Up the Country: Woodstock's Post-Dylan influx
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Small Town Talk' (Faber), February 2016
BOB DYLAN WASN'T the only artistic giant to seek sanctuary in the Catskill Mountains in the 1960s. Just as the singer had fled controversy and ...
Jimmy Page, Jack White, Edge, The: Davis Guggenheim's It Might Get Loud
Film/DVD/TV Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, February 2010
Riveting doc about the magical powers of the electric guitar, starring Jack White, Jimmy Page and the Edge. ...
Prince: My Name Is Prince: O2, London
Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 27 October 2017
I HADN'T anticipated the sudden pang of sadness as I walked in and saw all those gaudy, gloriously naff outfits. My eyes went straight to ...
Eric Clapton: Blues God Without An Axe To Grind
Profile by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 2 February 1991
WHEN THAT crazed blues fanatic scrawled the words "CLAPTON IS GOD" on a London wall in 1966, he ushered in the cult of the guitar ...
Michael Jackson: Blame it On the Good Times: The Life and Living Death of Michael Jackson
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, New Statesman, 6 July 2009
IN SEPTEMBER 1979, my friend Davitt Sigerson – then a very good white writer on black music; later the chairman of Island Records in America; ...
Report by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, January 1994
Barney Hoskyns visits the idyllic Catskill mountain retreat colonized by The Band, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and fellow bohemians. ...
Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Guardian, 23 May 2015
WHEN RICHARD GOLDSTEIN got married, Murray "the K" Kaufman – the famous New York disc jockey who'd anointed himself "the Fifth Beatle" in 1964 – ...
Thin Lizzy: Graeme Thomson: Cowboy Song: The Authorised Biography of Philip Lynott
Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Guardian, 9 March 2016
THIS FINE TELLING of the messy life of Thin Lizzy's charismatic frontman is studded with moments of bathos, but one sticks particularly in the mind. ...
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 3 September 2012
RIPLEY... EPSOM... WALLINGTON. The names hardly resonate in the way that Clarksdale or Greenville or Natchez do. Yet in their way these Surrey towns are ...
The Beat, Fleetwood Mac: The US Festival: Us & Them
Report by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 25 September 1982
That Woz the Fest that Woz! Barney Hoskyns takes a bite of the rotten Apple and hangs his head in despair ...
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Small Town Talk' (Faber), February 2016
BY THE TIME Bob Dylan's 'Blowin' In The Wind' was turbo-charging the folk-protest movement in the summer of 1963, his manger Albert Grossman had become ...
Prince: A Second Coming Thru Purple Haze
Report by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 2 April 1983
A MONTH ago, in Minneapolis, mecca of absence, I had time on my hands – all over my body, actually – to consider the idea ...
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