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Rock's Backpages is the world's most comprehensive online database of pop music writing, a unique resource unavailable elsewhere online. It contains an
ever-expanding collection of primary-source full-text articles from the music and mainstream press from the 1950s to the present day, along with a collection of
exclusive audio interviews.
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Rock's Backpages is the world's most comprehensive online database of pop music writing, a unique resource unavailable elsewhere online. It contains an
ever-expanding collection of primary-source full-text articles from the music and mainstream press from the 1950s to the present day, along with a collection of
exclusive audio interviews.
Subscriptions to Rock’s Backpages are available for institutional or personal use.
For institutions, Rock's Backpages is provided as an unlimited access subscription, meaning that all staff, students and library patrons have
unrestricted remote and on-site access to each text and audio file in the database. For full terms, please click here.
Please visit our Institutional Subscriptions page for further information and to arrange for a trial or quote.
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Welcome to the world's largest archive of music journalism, featuring over 50,000 articles on artists from Aaliyah to ZZ Top, with a new edition every Friday. Enter the library...
Rainbow's end: NME's Roy Carr watches Nico drawling the Doors' 'The End', Eno squealing 'Baby's On Fire' and John Cale dismembering Elvis' 'Heartbreak Hotel'... all in support of Kevin Ayers live at London's Rainbow. Plus reviews of the resulting 1 June, 1974 live album by Zoo World's Ira Robbins and Creem's Richard Cromelin.
Tonight the streets are his: in the back of a taxi in the Peak District, Richard Hawley talks to Maureen Paton about his hometown Sheffield and his latest album Coles Corner (October 2006).
Jon, I'm only dancing: Jon Savage, whose new history of LGBTQ's pop "resistance" is published next week, considers the "gender bending" of David Bowie (The Face, 1980) and the power of "the pink pound" (The Guardian, 1994). Plus Jon discusses Ian Curtis and Joy Division on the RBP podcast in April 2019.
Rainbow's end: NME's Roy Carr watches Nico drawling the Doors' 'The End', Eno squealing 'Baby's On Fire' and John Cale dismembering Elvis' 'Heartbreak Hotel'... all in support of Kevin Ayers live at London's Rainbow. Plus reviews of the resulting 1 June, 1974 live album by Zoo World's Ira Robbins and Creem's Richard Cromelin.
Jon, I'm only dancing: Jon Savage, whose new history of LGBTQ's pop "resistance" is published next week, considers the "gender bending" of David Bowie (The Face, 1980) and the power of "the pink pound" (The Guardian, 1994). Plus Jon discusses Ian Curtis and Joy Division on the RBP podcast in April 2019.
Meet on the ledge: backstage at the Oxford Poly, Richard Thompson discusses the classic I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (and wife/musical partner Linda) with Bob Woffinden (NME, June 1974).
Tonight the streets are his: in the back of a taxi in the Peak District, Richard Hawley talks to Maureen Paton about his hometown Sheffield and his latest album Coles Corner (October 2006).
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