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;
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…
OK COMPUTERISED — How Radiohead reinvented themselves with the radical electronica of 2000’s Kid A and 2001’s Amnesiac: Devon Powers reviews Kid AforPop Matters and Andrew Smith interviews the bandforThe Observer. Plus Chris Ingham applauds AmnesiacinMOJO and Simon Reynolds talks to Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood about life after OK Computer in The Wire… and don’t miss our Radiohead “compendium” Present Tense, choc-full of great interviews & reviews.
