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New on Rock’s Backpages this week
ON RBP this week we’re marking the release of Duran Duran’s first new album in six years with three great pieces by the gal who discovered the “Beau Brummies” in late 1980: New Romantic champion Beverly “Betty Page” Glick recalls her first enounter with Simon, Nick, John et al., plus we’re running her 1982 Sounds piece on the jet-setting video pin-ups.
Also free for a week are pieces about Radiohead’s radical self-reinvention at the dawn of this century: two great interviews with Thom, Jonny et al., plus reviews of Kid A andAmnesiac – expanded versions of which are released as Kid A Mnesia on November 5th. And you can read three pieces that reference departed legends Alan Hawkshaw,Ronnie Tutt&Dee Pop…
The week’s new audio interview finds Don McLeantalking to John Tobler in 1989 about his folkie years, the Weavers, recording in Nashville, and the American Pie album, which is 50 years old this week. Subscribers can also dive deep into the 50+ articles we’ve added to the RBP library this week, including…
- Robert Shelton reviewing Johnny Cash at Carnegie Hall n 1962;
- Lillian Roxon introducing her fellow Ozzies to T. Rex in 1971;
- Ed Jones interviewing Elton John’s managerJohn Reidin 1977;
- John Morthland reporting on the Parents Music Resource Centerin 1985;
- John Harris hanging out with Suede in 1993;
- Angus Batey revisiting DJ Kool Herc’s first-ever block party;
- and Bud Scoppa paying homage to Neil Young’s legendary manager Elliot Roberts in 2019.
Don’t miss the latest episode of the RBP podcast, with special guest Paul Morley talking about Joy Division, Factory’s Tony Wilson and krautrockers Faust.
Straddle the line in discord and rhyme
I’m on the hunt down, I’m after you…
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Inthe new episode of our podcast, the legendary Paul Morley joins us to talk about his native Manchester, Joy Division and his epic new biography of Factory Records founder Tony Wilson.
Paul recounts his early pop epiphanies and discovery of the UK’s music press, culminating in the one & only issue of his 1976 fanzine Out There — not to mention his first reviews for the NME in 1976. The conversation then turns to “Anthony H.” Wilson and the formation of Factory, taking in Paul’s championing of Joy Division before leading into a discussion of Martin Aston’s 1986 audio interview with New Order’s Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris.
From there we consider the week’s featured act Faust, spinning off from pieces about the German enigmas by Ian MacDonald, Andy Gill and David Stubbs, and prompting general thoughts on “Krautrock” from both guest and hosts. After saying goodbye to chief Chieftain Paddy Moloney, and to three veteran RBP writers on soul and R&B (Pete Grendysa, Bob Fisher andRoger St. Pierre), Mark leads us through his personal favourites among the 100+ articles added to the RBP library over the past fortnight, including pieces about the Stones’ pad in Edith Grove, Lorraine Ellison’s volcanic single ‘Stay With Me’ and Charlie Watts on drummers & drumming. Finally, Jasper talks us out with his thoughts on pieces about Primal Scream’s 2000 XTRMNTR and John Sinclair taking The Wire’s “Invisible Jukebox” text in 2003.
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In the new episode ofthe Rock’s Backpages podcast, we invite the excellent Miles Marshall Lewis to Zoom in from his native New York City.
Co-hosts Barney, Mark & Jasper ask Miles about his formative musical experiences in the South Bronx, including the impact of his parents’ superhip record collection. The conversation turns to hip hop, and then to the “mashing” of jazz and rap on the first three Tribe Called Quest albums — which leads circuitously to Kendrick Lamar’s jazz-infused 2015 masterpiece To Pimp a Butterfly, and then to the biography (Promise That You Will Sing About Me: The Power & Poetry of Kendrick Lamar) that Miles has just published. Jasper asks the author about Kamasi Washington and other guest stars on Butterfly, after which we swing to the opposite end of the jazz spectrum and discuss Tony Scherman’s 1996 interview with somewhat divisive traditionalist Wynton Marsalis — the week’s new audio offering, from which we hear two clips.
From jazz and hip hop we turn to reggae and to the week’s featured artist Bob Marley. Prompted by the imminent London premiere of Marley musical Get Up, Stand Up!, we hear the voice of the Jamaican superstar as he speaks to Karl Dallas about ‘I Shot the Sheriff’, a mere day after the Wailers blew the roof off London’s Lyceum theatre on 18th July, 1975.
After bidding farewell to Status Quo bassist/cofounder Alan Lancaster and to George “Commander Cody” Frayne IV, the RBP team talk us through the 100+ pieces added to our library over the past two weeks. These include Lillian Roxon writing about L.A. in the aftermath of the 1969 Manson killings (before Manson has been arrested); Ronnie Hawkins in hot water with former charges The Band/Hawks (also 1969), Michael Watts in hot pursuit of Iggy Pop in 1977, Mark Rozzo revisiting “ultimate cult album” Big Star Third in 2006, and —– bringing the episode full circle — our special guest on Baz Luhrmann’s 2016 hip hop drama The Get Down…
Listen to the RBP podcast via Rock’s Backpages,Apple Podcasts,Google,SpotifyorStitcher. And do make our day by reviewing it…
The RBP podcast is part of thePantheon Music Podcast Network.
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