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Warren Zevon: How L.A.'s 'Excitable Boy' Won the Battle with the Bottle
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 10 April 1980
"L.A. rock's newest darling desperado, Warren Zevon, likes to start his day with a screwdriver, then clear his head with coffee and a side of ...
Pretenders, The, Chrissie Hynde: The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde (2010)
Interview by Paul Zollo, Rock's Backpages Audio, 22 January 2010
The Pretenders frontwoman on songwriting and songs; being a band member, and an extended exposition on her vegetarianism and the brutality of the meat business.
File format: mp3; file size: 70.8mb, interview length: 1h 17' 22" sound quality: *** (phoner)
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Rock's Backpages Audio, May 2000
Taking tea in Soho's brand-new Sanderson Hotel, the great singer-songwriter talks about... well, almost everything: getting older; being perceived as a "dark" moralist; not being commercial; his good pal Jackson Browne; David Geffen; addiction, sobriety and therapy; his parents; plus songwriting and his diffidence in talking about it.
File format: mp3; total file size: 43.6mb, interview length: 45' 22" sound quality: ***
Interview by Paul Zollo, Rock's Backpages Audio, 4 April 1991
Bob on why he writes songs, how he writes songs, what he writes songs about, what he doesn't write songs about, the keys he writes songs in, where he likes to write songs, what songs are and aren't, and some memories of his own songs.
File format: mp3; file size: 75.5mb, interview length: 1h 22' 29" sound quality: **½
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: *****
Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel: Paul Simon: 'I Thought I Was a Has-Been at 19'
Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 30 April 1966
PAUL SIMON is the composer of 21 songs, most of which have been put to work for him very profitably. ...
Ivy League, The: The Ivy League: Songwriting Hit-Makers
Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 13 February 1965
FROM INSIDE the music publisher's office came the familiar sounds of creation, Tin Pan Alley style — tentative chords being hammered out on a piano ...
Paul Weller: Sins Of The Modfather: Paul Weller Speaks About Leaving His Comfort Zone
Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 19 April 2010
After running into Paul Weller at a Sunn O))) gig last year, The Quietus have been obsessed with finding out exactly how deep Paul Weller's ...
John Hiatt, Little Village: Hello Goodbye: John Hiatt and Little Village
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, June 2010
WE CONVENED at Ry [Cooder]'s house in Santa Monica. Set up some amps in a ground-floor room which opened out on to his garden. ...
Interview by Rob Hughes, The Word, January 2012
Siren of art-house blues-rock, raised on Beefheart and modelled on Edith Piaf. Ashamed of her attraction to Glee. ...
Eddie Holland Is 300% Happier Now
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Rolling Stone, 2 April 1970
DETROIT — Edward Holland learned a lot at Motown besides how to make hit records. Edward Holland learned the art of the controlled interview, an ...
Interview by Andria Lisle, Memphis Flyer, 12 February 2004
Rodney Crowell creates art for the soul in the cracks of Nashville's music machine. ...
Adam Masterson: Younger and wiser
Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 27 May 2003
THE GLUT OF ARTISTS working in the alt-country and folk-rock areas might be a logical reaction against the treacly deluge of pubescent pop, but there ...
Lightspeed Champion: Meet the Lightspeed Champion Devonté Hynes
Interview by Sophie Heawood, The Times, 17 May 2008
Wacky tunes, specs and furry hat? Our correspondent meets an unlikely new champion of indie cool. ...
Sufjan Stevens: Liturgical sounds for restaurant place-mats
Interview by Craig McLean, Daily Telegraph, 29 July 2006
Sufjan Stevens makes dazzling celestial music from the minutiae of everyday life. Craig McLean meets him. ...
Simon & Garfunkel: What friendship means to Simon and Garfunkel
Interview by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 7 June 1969
THE INFLUENCE of today's rock musicians is a very real one, and Paul Simon is a songwriter who reflects the times and society we live ...
Paul Weller: "Be Mutton Dressed As Ram!"
Interview by Jude Rogers, The Word, April 2012
Curmudgeonly theorist, phone-hacked serial dad, raffish poster-boy for inquisitive middle age — Paul Weller gives himself a good talking-to ...
Beautiful South, The: A Drink With… Paul Heaton
Interview by Dan Gennoe, Esquire, January 2002
BEAUTIFUL SOUTH singer Paul Heaton, is an unlikely popstar. He never wanted fame, riches or to sing, and formed his first band, the Housemartins with ...
Paul Williams: The Dwarf Genus
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 8 July 1972
HE WAS hanging out in one of those saucy marble and satin masterpieces tucked away neatly behind Piccadilly. His suite, equipped with Scotch, peanuts, a ...
Neil Young: Young's Winter Warmer
Interview by Max Bell, Vox, January 1993
Twenty years after Harvest, Neil Young has released Harvest Moon. But don't look for parallels — there aren't any, he says. ...
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