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PIE CHARTS — Don McLean talks to John Tobler about the American Pie album (50 years old this week), his early folk years… and the importance of keeping your copyrights (1989).
Jimi Hendrix to Kate Bush: the complete RBP Audio library
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It’s a Manchester special this week – with a bit of Krautrock and Celtic tradition added for good measure. To celebrate the imminent publication of his epic Tony Wilson biography From Manchester With Love, we’ve made Paul Morleywriter of the week and made three of his classic NME pieces free on the home page. All touch on the triumph and tragedy ofJoy Division…and the endurance ofNew Order, whose Bernard Sumner & Stephen Morris are (from 1986) the week’s featured audio interviewees.
The act featured in the Free On RBP section is the radical German kollectiv that was early ‘70s Faust. Interviews by Ian MacDonald (1973) and Andy Gill (1997) tell the wild and crazy story of Uwe Nettelbeck and friends, while Krautrock chronicler David Stubbs describes his teenage Faustian pact.
We’re saying goodbye to chief Chieftain and beloved Irish rover Paddy Moloney via interviews from 1998 and 2010, plus we’ve also lost three of RBP’s veteran specialists on rhythm 'n’ blues and soul: Bob Fisher,Pete Grendysa&Roger St. Pierre, pieces by all of whom we’re spotlighting on the home page.
RBP subscribers can enjoy almost 60 new additions to the library, including:
- Dusty Springfield getting personal with Penny Valentine in 1967;
- Rob Partridge visiting Atlantic’s London offices in 1974;
- Bill Holdship bidding farewell to Del Shannon after the latter’s 1990 suicide;
- Andrew Smith talking to techno magus the Aphex Twin in 1992;
- Former MC5 manager John SinclairtakingThe Wire’s invisible jukebox test;
- Kandia Crazy Horse questioning the New Afrophilia of Vampire Weekend et al.;
- andNick Cave bearing his soul to GQ’s Chris Heath in 2017.
If you could just see the beauty,
These things I could never describe,
These pleasures a wayward distraction,
This is my one lucky prize…
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Manchester special, Pt. 2: Martin Aston discusses new album Brotherhood and the late Ian Curtis with New Order’s Bernard Sumner (left) and Stephen Morris(1986).
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HAPPY TALES — Quicksilver’s brilliant John Cipollinareminisces wonderfully about the Bay Area, Dino Valenti, the Charlatans… and, naturally, the mighty QMS… in the company of San Francisco Nights co-authors Gene Sculatti and Davin Seay (1984).
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New on Rock’s Backpages
THIS WEEK we’re featuring – for one week only – exclusive audio ofBob Marleytalking to Karl Dallas the day after the Wailers played a legendary show at London’s Lyceum on 18th July, 1975. Hear the interview for free till Friday, then read the Melody Makerpiece that resulted from it – along with Vivien Goldman’s account of dropping in on Bob in Jamaica four years later.
The week’s featured writer (and our next podcast guest) is Miles Marshall Lewis, whose biography of the brilliant Kendrick Lamaris published this week. Miles’ Ebony review of To Pimp a Butterfly is revisited here, as is a 2013 interview with Wynton Marsalis… who just happens to be the week’s new audio interviewee (in a 1996 conversation with Tony Scherman). By way of bidding farewell to Alan LancasterandGeorge Frayne IV, we’re also offering 1976 interviews with Status Quo and Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen.
Subscribers can, of course, access the 50+ new articles added to the RBP library, including:
- Robert Shelton reviewing the Byrds @ Village Gate in 1966
- Ronnie Hawkinsin hot water with former charges The Band in 1969
- John Morthland in New Orleans with the Ohio Players in 1981
- Sandy Robertson meeting “Hollywood’s prince of darkness” Warren Zevonin 1985
- Phranc onbeing an “all-American Jewish lesbian folk singer” in 1991
- New RBP recruit Mark Rozzo lauds “ultimate cult album”Big Star Third/Sister Loversin 1993
- And, from 2015, David Toop revisiting Coltrane’s classic Love Supreme…
We sick and tired of-a your ism-schism game
Dying ‘n’ going to heaven in-a Jesus’ name…
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UPTOWN RULER — Tony Scherman meets divisive jazz icon Wynton Marsalis in 1996.
Jimi Hendrix to Kate Bush: the complete RBP Audio library
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ALONG COMES MARY — Cult Canadienne Mary Margaret O'Hara discusses 1988’s remarkable Miss America (and more) with Martin Aston (1989).
Jimi Hendrix to Kate Bush: the complete RBP Audio library
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PLAY TO WIN — 40 years after their electropop-funk classic Penthouse and Pavement, we bring you Adam Blake’s 1988 interview with Heaven 17.
Jimi Hendrix to Kate Bush: the complete RBP Audio library
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