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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 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. ...
Crispian St. Peters: Follow Me (Decca)
Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 25 June 1966
IF IMITATION IS THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY, THEN JUDGING BY HIS FIRST LP CRISPIAN ST. PETERS MUST BE ELVIS' BIGGEST FAN... ...
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 ...
Laura Nyro: Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 26 January 1970
Poetess at the Piano Comes Back on Top ...
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 8 February 1970
Yes, Holland-Dozier-Holland DID Split with the Giant; Yes, Eddie Holland DID form Invictus Records; Yes, Invictus IS Climbing the Charts ...
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 ...
Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel: Paul Simon
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Rolling Stone, 28 May 1970
PAUL SIMON arrived wearing a blue loden coat with the hood pulled up. Beneath it he had on black trousers and a black shirt. He ...
Profile by Richard Williams, The Times, 5 January 1971
THE CURRENT STATE of pop music allows its performers to make the most naked personal statements. Only an artist with considerable character, though, can keep ...
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: *****
Elvis Costello: My Aim Is True (Columbia)
Review by Jeffrey Morgan, Stage Life, February 1978
LIKE IT OR NOT, youd better watch out 'cause talent will out, which is exactly why youre hearing so much about Elvis Costello these days. ...
Bob Dylan: The Man Behind the Image
Interview by David Hancock, Evening News, London, 13 May 1978
BOB DYLAN will be pocketing over £500,000 for the six shows he'll perform before more than 90,000 people at Earls Court next month. ...
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 ...
Paul McCartney, Wings: Paul McCartney (1980) [transcript]
Audio transcript of interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages transcripts, May 1980
This is a transcript of John's audio interview with McCartney. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Elvis Costello: Elvis goes eyebrow
Report by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 28 February 1981
Mr Costello and a high class chatshow confrontation witnessed by Sylvie Simmons ...
Nico: The Girl With The Faraway Eyes
Interview by Clinton Walker, The Age, 21 February 1986
THERE IS PERHAPS no world quite so cruel as rock and roll, where youth is everything, and with age comes not maturity but redundancy. Unless ...
Ian Tyson: Cowboy troubadour: Ian Tyson is riding high again
Profile and Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Maclean's, 13 February 1989
THE AUDITORIUM was a sea of cowboy hats in a variety of styles – High Sierra, Ridgetop and Cattleman. The ranchers, cowhands and wives were ...
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
PJ Harvey: Sex and Bile and Rock and Roll
Interview by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 8 February 1992
IT'S SUNDAY AFTERNOON, grey and bitter and it looks like rain. Your flatmate, Lisa, and her gangly boyfriend, Ben, are in her room. They're burning ...
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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