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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: ****
Patti Smith: Patti Cracks Noggin, Raps On Regardless
Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 5 February 1977
Patti sounds plaintive, fragile, over the transatlantic wire. If you can imagine a voice sounding wan, you're near the mark. Reason being — "A swan ...
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. ...
Why does everyone ignore "Jump Up" jungle?
Interview by Bethan Cole, Mixmag, January 1997
Even Goldie has been dissing "jump up". But wasn't it the ragga stuff that put jungle back in the frame in the first place? ...
Bobby Womack: Bobby Sox It To Ya
Interview by Robin Katz, Record Mirror, 26 February 1977
"HELLO LONDON, it's Bobby Womack on the line." Hello Bobby, you friendly soul. How good to hear your voice again. ...
Jefferson Airplane Taking Off...Fast
Interview by Carol Deck, KRLA Beat, 15 April 1966
INTERVIEWING an airplane is kind of an absurd idea but interviewing the Jefferson Airplane, a fast rising group from San Francisco, verges on ridiculous. It's ...
Donna Summer: They're Gonna Put Me In The Movies
Interview by David Hancock, National RockStar, 15 January 1977
Donna Summer reveals all to David Hancock ...
The Ronettes: Wrong Phone Number Brought Success
Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 11 January 1964
TALK ABOUT a coincidence! A thundering great coincidence — a flash of fate which virtually launched the swinging Ronettes, one of the most successful girlie ...
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 ...
Junior Walker & the All Stars: Top Tunes: Junior Walker's 'Shotgun' Is His First Big Hit
Interview by Ronnie Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 27 February 1965
JUNIOR WALKER and the All Stars can thank a couple of teenagers from Benton Harbor, Mich., for the inspiration that's led to their first major ...
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Temptations, The: The Temptations: Hit Was Written in a Car
Interview by Ronnie Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 6 March 1964
IT TOOK the help of a "miracle" for the Temptations to come up with their first big hit, 'The Way You Do the Things You ...
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 ...
Nick Heyward: Wanted: One New Image (Wholesome Popsters Need Not Apply)
Interview by Karen Schlosberg, Creem, April 1984
ONCE UPON a time there were three English lads who thought it would be a lark to form a pop band. They recruited three other ...
Jimi Hendrix: The Black Elvis?
Interview by Michael Lydon, The New York Times, 25 February 1968
"WILL HE BURN it tonight?" asked a neat blonde of her boyfriend, squashed in beside her on the packed floor of the Fillmore auditorium. "He ...
Phil Collins: I Don’t Look Like a Sex God
Interview by Steve Turner, Radio Times, 31 March 1990
By his own admission Phil Collins is an unlikely superstar. Hes the drummer turned singer, the background boy become celebrity, the chap next door gone ...
Frank Ifield: Aussies? Squares?
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 30 January 1960
The fans get a better deal down under says FRANK IFIELD, Australia's Tommy Steele, now making a name for himself over here ...
Bonnie Raitt: Frontwoman: Bonnie Raitt
Interview by Mark Rowland, Musician, April 1994
FOR YOU, how does Longing in Their Hearts differ or break new ground from Nick of Time and Luck of the Draw? ...
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