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Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath: Ozzy Osbourne (1997)
Interview by David Stubbs, Rock's Backpages Audio, October 1997
The Ozzmeister effs and blinds his way through subjects ranging from the death of Princess Diana to the myth of Sabbath's Satanism and the US religious backlash, via a detailed description of his substance abuse and much more.
File format: mp3; file size: 62.6mb, interview length: 1h 08' 22" sound quality: ****
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 1 April 1967
Blast-off for THE big four is this Friday — Here's Disc's curtain-raiser by the stars themselves ...
Commander Cody: The Early Sound Of "Now" Music
Interview by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 29 July 1973
HIS FIRST BAND was called the Fantastic Surfing Beavers and, according to Commander Cody, it was the worst band that ever existed. I was sorry ...
REO Speedwagon: On Top at Last and Rolling in the Fast Lane
Interview by Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, 22 March 1981
REO Speedwagon's Powerful Drive... ...
Fela Kuti: The Great Pretender: Fela Kuti
Interview by Len Brown, New Musical Express, 25 October 1986
So, who is this FELA KUTI? An African musician just out of jail and now threatening to run for President of Nigeria? A polygamist in ...
Gun Club, The: The Gun Club's Jeffrey Lee Pierce and Jim Duckworth (1983)
Interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages Audio, 18 April 1983
Jeffrey Lee Pierce talks about writing for Slash magazine; tells possible lies about his "Texas upbringing"; forming the band in Los Angeles; on people like Phast Phreddie Patterson, Alex Chilton, and the Panther Burns; running the Blondie fan club; Geoff Travis editing Duckworth off the Panther Burns album; why the band keeps changing personel; bass player Patricia Morrison, and on being produced by Chris Stein.
File format: mp3; total file size: 29.2mb, total interview length: 30' 22" sound quality: *****
Interview by Cliff White, Rock's Backpages Audio, June 1977
The Louisiana Swamp God on having his best stuff rejected by Warner Bros.; selling songs to others, and his pleasure at some of their versions; Elvis doing 'Polk Salad Annie'; on songwriting; on being compared to Barry White; on going fishing with his mom, and eating catfish; his new album, Eyes, and looking back at how he got started.
File format: mp3; file size: 21.9mb, interview length: 22' 47" sound quality: *****
Living Colour's Vernon Reid (1988)
Interview by Mark Sinker, Rock's Backpages audio, April 1988
Vernon Reid talks about Living Colour signing to Epic Records; about his other projects and producing other acts; the state of Black music in America; the life and death of disco; the importance of Prince; his early days with Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society and Defunkt; the Black Rock Coalition; negative energy, drugs and racism; and the clichéd perceptions of African-Americans.
File format: mp3; file size: 78.9mb, interview length: 1h 22' 12" sound quality: ***
Interview by Frank Broughton, Rock's Backpages audio, 22 February 1999
The House music pioneer on the founding fathers of the music; DJs like Ron Hardy and Frankie Knuckles; the clubs — the Music Box, the Warehouse, the Power Plant; starting making tracks; key songs like 'I've Lost Control' and 'Move Your Body'; the Trax Records rip-offs, and Marshall's own definition of House.
File format: mp3; file size: 75.2mb, interview length: 1h 22' 08" sound quality: ****
Interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages audio, 17 May 1991
Brit-folk doyenne Shirley Collins revisists her 1971 No Roses album track by track and discusses how the songs were chosen – and the move away from folk tradition. Collins also talks about 10,000 Maniacs' cover of 'Just as the Tide was a-Flowing'; working with Maddy Prior and Fairport Convention; the Albion Country Band... and about the state of folk today.
File format: mp3; file size: 55.1mb, interview length: 57' 22" sound quality: *****
Interview by Dave Zimmer, Rock's Backpages Audio, February 1983
Joni talks about the Canyon scene: the people, her house, what it was like; she talks about playing the coffee house circuit in New York, and meeting David Crosby; leaving New York for Los Angeles; Crosby producing her first album; meeting the foppishly dressed Graham Nash; and Crosby, Stills & Nash getting together; she then talks about not getting to Woodstock, and subsequently writing the song.
File format: mp3; file size: 26.8mb; Interview length: 27' 54"; sound quality: **
Clash, The, Joe Strummer: Joe Strummer (1988)
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Rock's Backpages audio, February 1988
The former Clash front-man on recording the soundtrack to Permanent Record; his musical and acting participation in Walker and Straight to Hell; on the Clash compilation Story of the Clash Vol. 1; how touring with the Who led to the end of the Clash; playing with the Pogues, and his hatred of being spat at onstage; on Reagan and Thatcher; his (now) dislike of drugs; on his diplomat father; forming the 101ers, and the Rude Boy movie.
File format: mp3; file size: 83.8mb, interview length: 1h 27' 20" sound quality: *** (background noise)
Interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages audio, February 1979
In Belfast to play his first Ulster gig since the '60s, Van talks about his recent period of transition: resolving business issues, and Harvey Goldsmith and Bill Graham; living in the USA; leaving Norther Ireland for London, the Troubles, and being Irish in America; on Wavelength and his previous albums; on Astral Weeks; the difficulty in playing his albums live; his current road band with Peter Bardens; on Hard Nose the Highway and 'Bein' Green'; being his own producer; the live It's Too Late to Stop Now, and what he listens to at home.
File format: mp3; file size: 43.6mb, interview length: 45' 27" sound quality: ***
Propaganda: The Pop Machinery Cranks On
Interview by Chris Roberts, Sounds, 22 February 1986
In the frozen musical wastes of '86, Claudia Brucken-Morley thinks of PROPAGANDA as "being a life long thing". CHRIS ROBERTS is thinking more along the ...
New Model Army: Join The Professionals: New Model Army
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, May 1989
There are few more devoted disciples than the followers of New Model Army. For many it's a full-time job — hitchhiking to every concert, home ...
Black Flag, Henry Rollins: Henry Rollins (1994)
Interview by Andy Gill, Rock's Backpages audio, May 1994
Henry reflects on Kurt Cobain's recent death; Black Flag's influence on the new bands; his disapproval of slackers and his ascetic lifestyle; his disciplinarian father; violence in America; what he likes and loathes about England; his youthful fondness for Ted Nugent, and '70s hard rock in general; the difference between Black Flag and his Rollins Band; music vs. spoken word; his literary influences, including Nietzsche; his mother's record collection; being knocked out by punk rock; his gym work... and his relationship with his fans.
File format: mp3; file size: 79.5mb, interview length: 1h 22' 46" sound quality: ****
Interview by Caitlin Moran, Melody Maker, 4 February 1995
"THE THING IS, we won't let anyone down." ...
Dells, The, Dramatics, The: The Dells vs The Dramatics
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 10 June 1975
TWO OF America's top vocal groups were in New York recently for a concert at The Felt Forum and we got the chance to talk ...
Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age: Queens of the Stone Age make an offer you can't refuse
Interview by Ted Kessler, New Musical Express, 29 July 2000
"SOME OF YOU DRUGGERS, SOME OF YOU SOBER PEOPLE, SOME OF YOU SEX FIENDS, SOME OF YOU VIRGINS. COME TO OUR CLIQUE. YOU JOIN THE ...
Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Musician, February 1989
A Plectral Purist Answers the Dumb Questions ...
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