Harvey Kubernik
(Harvey Kubernik is the author of 19 books, including This Is Rebel Music, Canyon Of Dreams: The Magic And The Music Of Laurel Canyon and Turn Up The Radio! Rock, Pop and Roll In Los Angeles 1956-1972.Sterling/Barnes and Noble in 2018 published Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik's The Story Of The Band: From Big Pink To The Last Waltz. For September 2021, the duo has written a multi-narrative volume on Jimi Hendrix for Sterling/Barnes and Noble.
Otherworld Cottage Industries in 2020 published Harvey's book, Docs That Rock, Music That Matters, featuring interviews with D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus, Albert Maysles, Murray Lerner, Morgan Neville, Dr. James Cushing, Curtis Hanson, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Andrew Loog Oldham, Dick Clark, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Travis Pike, Allan Arkush and David Leaf, among others.
This century Kubernik wrote the liner note booklets to the CD re-releases of Carole King's Tapestry, Allen Ginsberg's Kaddish, Elvis Presley The '68 Comeback Special and The Ramones' End of the Century). Harvey and Andrew Loog Oldham wrote the liner essays to The Essential Carole King.
In November 2006, Harvey Kubernik was a speaker discussing audiotape preservation and archiving at special hearings called by The Library of Congress and held in Hollywood, California. His writings are in several book anthologies, The Rolling Stone Book Of The Beats and Drinking With Bukowski. Harvey penned a back cover endorsement for Michael Posner's book on Leonard Cohen that Simon & Schuster, Canada published in 2020, Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years.
During 2020 Harvey Kubernik served as a Consultant on the 2-part documentary Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time directed by Alison Ellwood. Kubernik is currently working on a documentary about Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member singer/songwriter Del Shannon. He was interviewed last decade by director/producer Neil Norman for his GNP Crescendo documentary, The Seeds: Pushin' Too Hard. Jan Savage and Daryl Hooper original members of the Seeds participated along with Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys, Iggy Pop, Kim Fowley, Jim Salzer, the Bangles, photographer Ed Caraeff, Mark Weitz of the Strawberry Alarm Clock and Johnny Echols of Love. Miss Pamela Des Barres supplied the narration. Debut broadcast on television will be in 2021.
This decade, Harvey was filmed for the currently in-production documentary about former Hollywood landmark Gold Star Recording Studio and co-owner/engineer Stan Ross produced and directed by Brad Ross and Jonathan Rosenberg. Brian Wilson, Herb Alpert, Richie Furay, Darlene Love, Mike Curb, Chris Montez, Bill Medley, Don Randi, Hal Blaine, Shel Talmy, Richard Sherman, Don Peake, Kim Fowley, Johnny Echols, Gloria Jones, Carol Kaye, Marky Ramone, David Kessel and Steven Van Zandt have been lensed.
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Sparks: Hometown Heroes At Last
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 2 November 1974
IT WAS a typical day in Los Angeles, hot and smoggy. 18-year-old Jeff exclaimed with glee clutching his autographed Sparks album, "They went to my ...
The Miracles: Miracles Never Cease…
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 23 November 1974
LOS ANGELES: "I really loved touring with the English groups, back in 1963 and 1964. We used to tour with the Rolling Stones and people ...
Electric Light Orchestra: Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 14 December 1974
LOS ANGELES: Playing their largest venue in Southern California, the Electric Light Orchestra thrilled a packed Shrine auditorium with its own brand of rock and ...
Stevie Wonder: Forum, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 14 December 1974
Stevie Wonder: painting in rock ...
The Beach Boys: Stepping Out Of The Surf
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 21 December 1974
LOS ANGELES; "Last week in Vancouver we sold out the Canadian National Exhibition Hall twice. We had 17,500 for each show and over 5,000 additional ...
The Guess Who: Guess Who's a smash!
Profile and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 28 December 1974
"I WANTED to buy some records, so I went collecting for UNICEF on Halloween and took the money," recalls the 26-year-old lead singer for the ...
Bobby "Blue" Bland: Bobby Bland: Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 8 February 1975
LOS ANGELES: At a time when today's music seems to be suffering from forced theatrics, and a lack of talent disguised in glitter and gold, ...
Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 15 February 1975
LOS ANGELES: "We sold out two houses in Detroit at 12,000 each and were the biggest thing to hit the city since the Beatles. People ...
Leonard Cohen: Cohen's New Skin
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 1 March 1975
LOS ANGELES: "For a while, I didn't think there was going to be another album. I pretty well felt that I was washed up as ...
Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 8 March 1975
LOS ANGELES: In the last six months, he's jammed with Ray Manzarek at the Whiskey, played with John Sebastian at the Troubadour and recently, at ...
Barry Manilow: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 5 April 1975
Barry becomes a star ...
Profile and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 5 April 1975
GLEN CAMPBELL, due in Britain next week for a major tour, and with a new album, Reunion, recorded with Jim Webb, talks to Harvey Kubernik ...
Love Unlimited, Barry White: Barry White, Love Unlimited: Shubert Theatre, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 12 April 1975
Too much love! ...
Joe Walsh: Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 10 May 1975
LOS ANGELES: Through his work with the James Gang, Barnstorm and more recently with his solo endeavours, Joe Walsh has earned the respect and recognition ...
Dion, Phil Spector: Phil Spector: He's A Rebel
Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 31 May 1975
THE OCCASION is Professor Phil Spector's guest lecture at the Sherwood Oaks Experimental College record-producing seminar. Last time Phil talked at the school was in ...
Captain and Tennille: Captain Fantastic
Profile and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 26 July 1975
IN SEPTEMBER 1973, two Chatsworth residents recorded a song, 'The Way I Want To Touch You'. Subscribing to the Phil Spector school of self-distribution, they ...
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 26 July 1975
Drummer Ed Cassidy talks about the new-look Spirit – and explains why a band of '67 is still hunting the big-time ...
Billy Preston, The Rolling Stones: Billy Preston: Like a Rolling Stone
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 2 August 1975
"We're a family," says Billy Preston of his current tour of the U.S. with the Stones. And in addition to that, he's just released a ...
James Taylor: Universal Amphitheatre, LA
Live Review by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 16 August 1975
JAMES TAYLOR'S UNIVERSAL Amphitheatre gig, though predictable at times, established new beginnings for the folkster as he returned to the Southland for the first time ...
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 16 August 1975
ANAHEIM: Forty miles from Los Angeles, Johnny Cash sits in the Royal Inn Hotel. Cash is in town to promote his autobiography, Man In Black, ...
The Isley Brothers: Isley Brothers: Heat's Still On Isleys
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 11 October 1975
LOS ANGELES: The Isleys' latest album, The Heat Is On, recently hit number one in America, but for as long as there's been rock and ...
Ike & Tina Turner: Tina Turner: Acid Queen
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 11 October 1975
"WE TOURED FOR years with all the English groups and I always liked what they were singing about. ...
The Band's Robbie Robertson: "The Struggle Has Gone"
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 3 January 1976
ROBBIE ROBERTSON: "We'd been around so long that we couldn't take a name seriously. So we made the first album and we called ourselves the ...
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 24 January 1976
"I WAS NERVOUS but I looked forward to playing overseas because I had this feeling there was an audience for my kind of music, especially ...
David Ruffin: Ruffin Walks Back
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 21 February 1976
"I ALWAYS believed and prayed that I could express myself and be understood. By having a hit single, a lot of people are hearing me ...
The Band: Across The Great Divide with Robbie Robertson
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Crawdaddy!, March 1976
A Portrait of the Artist as a Mystery Man ...
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 6 March 1976
LEONARD COHEN'S GREATEST Hits is an interesting album to contemplate when one remembers that Cohen was in his mid-thirties when he began to make records, ...
Ian Hunter: There Are More Important Things In Life Than Hit Records
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 1 May 1976
LOS ANGELES: In the afternoon I arrived at his hotel, and for a while we drank red wine and watched I Love Lucy reruns on ...
Elvis Presley: Long Beach Arena, Los Angeles
Live Review by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 8 May 1976
DESPITE MEDICAL PROBLEMS Elvis Presley's show at the Long Beach Arena proved that he still has the voice and romantic quality that established him as ...
Little Feat: The Roxy, Los Angeles
Live Review by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 8 May 1976
In Southern California this year, Little Feat have presented their musical wares opening shows for ELO, the Who and Dave Mason. Consequently, 1976 has seen ...
Fleetwood Mac: Mac Bounce Back
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 12 June 1976
THE LAST YEAR has brought Fleetwood Mac a platinum LP – Fleetwood Mac – their eighth album for Reprise records, from which two top ten ...
Kim Fowley, The Runaways: The Runaways: Runaway Girls
Profile and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 17 July 1976
RUNAWAYS: the Natalie Woods, Brigitte Bardots and Ann-Margrets of rock. ...
Jefferson Starship: Starship's Enterprise
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 24 July 1976
ONE BY ONE the group drifts into Wally Heider's recording studio for a mixing session. Marty Balin is absent but his presence fills the air. ...
Weather Report: The True US Art Form
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 31 July 1976
"PEOPLE ARE beautiful everywhere," says Josef Zawinul. "I think a real open person, I don't care what music he is playing, is going to be ...
Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt: Steve Van Zandt: Miami, Bruce, and Roots
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 6 November 1976
LOS ANGELES: Miami Steve Van Zandt has been in Bruce Springsteen's band for over a year now, and also finds time these days to guide ...
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 27 November 1976
AL STEWART, who plays London's New Victoria Theatre on December 2, is now enjoying greater success in America. ...
Live Review by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 11 December 1976
IT WASN'T easy to book a plane from Los Angeles airport on Thanksgiving to fly up to San Francisco for the Band's farewell live concert ...
Van Morrison: Jamming with George Benson
Report by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 9 April 1977
LOS ANGELES: VAN MORRISON made a rare TV appearance on the Midnight Special filmed last Monday at the NBC studios in Burbank. The show, which ...
The Beach Boys: Brian Is Back… Again!
Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Phonograph Record, August 1977
"We're still happening. New people are picking up on us all the time. I don't really analyze why we're successful, but the main reason for ...
Bob Seger: Cruisin' with Seger
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 15 October 1977
Detroit rocker Bob Seger, who starts his first British tour tomorrow (Friday), talks to Harvey Kubernik in Los Angeles ...
Leonard Cohen, Phil Spector: What Happened When Phil Spector Met Leonard Cohen?
Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, LA Phonograph, January 1978
LEONARD COHEN – singer, songwriter, guitarist, poet, novelist, and sometime straight faced spokesman of the hilarious ironies of the human condition – walks into the ...
Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 5 January 1978
STEELY DAN WILL compose and perform the title track for FM, which is scheduled to begin filming this week at Universal Studios. Denny Rosencrantz, vice-president ...
The Sex Pistols: Goodbye — and Good Riddance: The Sex Pistols, Winterland, San Francisco
Live Review by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 21 January 1978
Harvey Kubernik's personal view of the Pistols' last U.S. gig at Winterland in San Francisco ...
The Bee Gees, Andy Gibb: How the Bee Gees captured America
Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 21 January 1978
"ONE OF the reasons for the Bee Gees' success," explains Robin Gibb at their rented Benedict Canyon home, "is that we've never used music as ...
Bruce Springsteen: Reborn and Running Again
Report by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 10 June 1978
EVEN BEFORE the two brilliant concerts at the Spectrum earlier in the week, Bruce Springsteen could have been the Mayor of Philadelphia if he had ...
Bette Midler Just Wants to be Loved. It's the Least a Legend Can Expect
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 23 September 1978
LOOKING AFTER Bette Midler's career, says her manager and former lover Aaron Russo, is like being the navigator of a plane en route for California. ...
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: The Trials of Tom Petty: Petty gets it…
Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 8 March 1980
Washed clean by legal wranglings, Tom Petty is settling down to write good rock 'n' roll songs. "That's all I want to do," he tells ...
Jack Nitzsche, Phil Spector: Phil Spector: Jack Nitzsche remembers the Wall of Sound
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Goldmine, 17 June 1988
NOW IN HIS 30th year in the music industry, Jack Nitzsche is one of the great composers and arrangers of our time. In this decade ...
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, MOJO, February 1995
Berry Gordy has finally told his own story. Harvey Kubernik met him in LA. ...
Elvis Presley, Leiber and Stoller: Jerry Leiber And Mike Stoller: By Royal Appointment
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, MOJO, March 1995
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, the greatest rock 'n' roll songwriting team of all time, have their songs celebrated in the musical Smokey Joe's Cafe ...
Berry Gordy: A Conversation With Mr Motown
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Goldmine, 3 March 1995
DIANA ROSS and the Supremes. Stevie Wonder. Marvin Gaye. The Temptations. The Four Tops. Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. The Marvelettes. Michael Jackson and the ...
Leiber and Stoller: A Yakety Yak
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Goldmine, 28 April 1995
IF THEY'D only written, say, 'Hound Dog', 'Kansas City' and 'Stand By Me', they would already deserve their place in the Songwriters Hall of Fame ...
Al Green, Willie Mitchell: Willie Mitchell: Tell’Em Willie Boy Was Here
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, MOJO, June 1995
Willie Mitchell, maestro of the Memphis soul sound that gave the world Al Green, has his life’s work celebrated by the box set Hi Times: ...
The Doors: Absolutely Live (Elektra)
Review and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Harvey Kubernik, MOJO, January 1997
THOUGH IT EMERGED to mixed reviews in July 1970 – not least from the band, who thought the set middling – Absolutely Live is an ...
The Rolling Stones Chase The Voodoo Down
Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Musician, October 1997
"MY WHOLE behavior with the Rolling Stones is governed by my first encounter with Keith," recalls Don Was. "He sent me a fax before we ...
Jack Nitzsche: Ten Questions For Jack Nitzsche
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, MOJO, April 1998
HOW DID YOU first meet Phil Spector? ...
Jack Nitzsche: For Composer Jack Nitzsche, It's Never Too Late To Score With The Underground
Profile and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, LA New Times, 9 April 1998
"I think they wanted a score that was action and adventure. Scary suspense and all that shit. And I said, 'Fuck that. Let's put some ...
Jack Nitzsche: Legendary Music Arranger and Composer, Jack Nitzsche Dies
Obituary by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, September 2000
Legendary arranger and award-winning composer Jack Nitzsche died at Queen Of Angels hospital in Los Angeles, Calif. , on August 25, 2000. Nitzsche’s death was ...
Andrew Loog Oldham, The Rolling Stones: The Backpages Interview: Andrew Loog Oldham
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, January 2001
Last year saw the UK publication of Stoned, a wonderfully insightful film/fashion/music overview of the first Britpop era (1960-1964) by Andrew Loog Oldham, perhaps best ...
Chrissie Hynde, The Pretenders: The Backpages Interview: Chrissie Hynde
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, 23 February 2001
Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders have just finished a fall 2000 U.S. tour opening for Neil Young. Hynde and her group included versions of Young's ...
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, 2004
DICK CLARK IS ONE of the most recognized personalities in entertainment in America: He hosts two nationally syndicated radio shows ("Rock, Roll and Remember" ...
The Ramones, Phil Spector: The Ramones: Hey Ho, Let's Go!
Retrospective and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, MOJO, November 2004
Recording End Of The Century with Phil Spector should have been the Ramones' bid for the big time. Instead, it nearly destroyed them. ...
Allen Ginsberg: The Adventures Of The Imagination: Allen Ginsberg's Kaddish
Sleeve notes by Harvey Kubernik, Water Records, 2006
IN A PARIS CAFÉ in November 1957, Allen Ginsberg began the initial notations for Kaddish. In Ginsberg: A Biography, by longtime friend and author Barry ...
The Ventures' Don Wilson: Rock Don't Run
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, DISCoveries, 1 August 2006
ON A CONSTRUCTION site in Seattle, Washington, in 1959, two guitarists, Don Wilson and Bob Bogle, decided to perform together at local sock hops, initially ...
Jimi Hendrix: The Jimi Hendrix Experience Live At Monterey DVD, CD
Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, October 2007
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Live At Monterey for the first time ever on October 16th was released by Experience Hendrix/Geffen/Ume on DVD. The legendary U.S. ...
Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, November 2007
REELIN' IN THE Years Productions and Stax Records (a division of Concord Music Group) has issued Dreams To Remember: The Legacy of Otis Redding on ...
Bob Dylan, The Who: From Dylan to The Who: Film-maker Murray Lerner
Profile and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, November 2007
Murray Lerner on his new The Other Side Of The Mirror – Bob Dylan Live At The Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 DVD and the just ...
Retrospective and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, November 2007
THE LEGENDARY songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller will be honored in person at the 2007 Gala Benefit Concert of the Lauri Strauss ...
Bob Dylan's John Wesley Harding
Retrospective by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, December 2007
ON DECEMBER 27, 1967, Columbia Records released the Bob Johnston-produced Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding long player. In January of 1968 it was one of ...
Overview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, February 2008
FOR DECADES, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Leonard Cohen has been a global poetic force and influential songwriter. ...
The Rolling Stones Shine A Light Concert Film Opens April 4th
Report by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, April 2008
ON APRIL 4th director Martin Scorsese's concert documentary on the Rolling Stones, Shine A Light, was released and distributed in the U.S. by Paramount Classics ...
Carole King's monumental 1971 Tapestry Returns In 2 CD Deluxe Edition
Special Feature by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, 12 May 2008
Harvey Kubernik tells the story of the making of this epochal album, and interviews producer Lou Adler ...
David Bowie: Virgin/EMI To Issue David Bowie: Live Santa Monica '72 On July 8th
Report by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, July 2008
VIRGIN/EMI Records on July 8th will release David Bowie: Live Santa Monica '72 in limited edition CD and numbered 180-gram double vinyl LP packages culled ...
Elvis Presley: The Return of the King: Elvis and the Making Of The '68 Comeback Special
Retrospective by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, August 2008
When Elvis Presley donned a black leather suit and stepped in front of NBC's cameras for his 1968 TV special, he changed the historical perception ...
Merry Clayton, The Rolling Stones: Merry Clayton on the Rolling Stones' 'Gimme Shelter' Session
Retrospective and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, 2009
MERRY CLAYTON was born on Christmas Day and a graduate of Jefferson High School's music department then under renowned instructor Sam Browne, in Los Angeles, ...
Leiber and Stoller: Hound Dog: The Leiber & Stoller Autobiography
Press Release by Harvey Kubernik, promotional interview, May 2009
LEGENDARY SONGWRITERS Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller were in the delivery room for the birth of rock and roll, yet as Stoller said the day ...
Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan: Bob Johnston on Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and Nashville Skyline
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, May 2009
JUNE 17th MARKS the 40th anniversary of the original Columbia Records release of Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline album, produced by Bob Johnston. ...
Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, February 2010
JANIE HENDRIX, the CEO of Experience Hendrix LLC, and Sony Music Entertainment's Legacy Recordings will launch their monumental 2010 Jimi Hendrix Catalog Project on Tuesday, ...
The Rolling Stones: Andy Johns on recording Exile On Main St.
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, March 2010
ANDY JOHNS is a world class sound engineer and record producer. On May 18th his work with the Rolling Stones on their 1972 Exile On ...
Al Kooper, Bob Dylan: Al Kooper on Bob Dylan's record producers Tom Wilson and Bob Johnston
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, October 2010
"In 1966 Dylan went down to Nashville for Blonde On Blonde He stayed out in the studio 10 or 12 hours. Bob never left it. ...
Retrospective by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, July 2011
STEVE VAN ZANDT, May 2011, Lillehammer, Norway: "The anti-apartheid Sun City project (single, album, video, documentary, book, teaching guide) was a high point and a ...
The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson: Brian Wilson and SMiLE
Retrospective and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, October 2011
NOTE: A small portion of this interview appeared in the 2011 MOJO '60s issue. ...
The Band: Ageless: The Band at the Academy of Music, 1971
Retrospective and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, September 2013
DURING THE FINAL week of 1971, the Band played four legendary concerts at New York City's Academy Of Music, ushering in the New Year with ...
Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Graham Nash: CSNY 1974: An Interview with Graham Nash
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, July 2014
DAVID CROSBY, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young release their CSNY 1974 boxed set from their historic 1974 tour on July 8th. The forty previously ...
Book Excerpt by Harvey Kubernik, 'Turn Up The Radio! Pop!' (Santa Monica Press), October 2014
NO ONE IN the history of Los Angeles radio did more to promote the music throughout Southern California – and indeed, the world – than ...
The Beatles: Rubber Soul 50 Years On
Retrospective by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, December 2015
"Rubber Soul was the album that changed the musical world we lived in then to the one we still live in today." (Andrew Loog Oldham) ...
Elton John: Madmen Across the Water: How Elton John (and Bernie Taupin) stormed the USA
Retrospective by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, April 2017
IN NOVEMBER 1970, Elton John performed an intimate concert at A&R Studios in New York, recorded for WABC FM. In front of 125 people, Elton ...
The Byrds, Chris Hillman, Roger McGuinn, Gram Parsons: The Byrds' Sweetheart Of The Rodeo at 50
Retrospective and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, June 2018
MARKING THE 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking Sweetheart of the Rodeo, Byrds co-founders Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman have been performing the album in its ...
The Seeds: Jan Savage 1942-2020
Obituary by Harvey Kubernik, Ugly Things, 11 August 2020
JAN SAVAGE (born Buck Jan Reeder), guitarist with American rock band the Seeds, died in early August, according to a report in The Ada News ...
George Harrison: All Things Must Pass at 50
Retrospective by Harvey Kubernik, Music Connection, 10 November 2020
GEORGE HARRISON'S debut solo album All Things Must Pass was recorded May-October 1970 in London at the Abbey Road, Trident and Apple studios. It was ...
Area Code 615, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Janis Joplin, Neil Young: Elliot Mazer, 1941-2021
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, February 2021
ELLIOT MAZER, the recording engineer and record producer who worked with Kenny Burrell, Chubby Checker, Maynard Ferguson, Richie Havens, Janis Joplin, Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, ...
Al Green, Willie Mitchell: Let's Stay Together: Willie Mitchell on Al Green and Hi Records
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, January 2022
IT'S BEEN OVER a half a century since Al Greene & the Soulmates [sic], then based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, released their first album Back ...
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