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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...
Takin' it to the yachts: Sam Sutherland discusses the Doobie Brothers and more with blue-eyed soul icon Michael McDonald (Musician, 1981) and the singer talks to David Burke about Kenny Loggins and Thundercat (Classic Pop, 2018). Plus Paul Sexton sails into the sunset with the "treasure trove" of yacht rock in 2023.
The Dean and I: John Tobler talks to self-proclaimed "Dean of American rock critics" Robert Christgau about the Clash, Lou Reed and more in October 1982.
No Love lost: KRLA Beat reporter Rochelle Reed almost walks out on an interview with Love's belligerent frontmen Arthur Lee and Bryan MacLean (July 1966). Plus she meets soul's hardest-working businessman James Brown (October 1996) and pens a "study in protest" after befriending folk princess Joan Baez in early 1967.
Spider man: Melody Maker's Max Jones meets folk-blues dude "Spider" John Koerner (1938-2024) in April 1966 and Paul Nelson pens the liner notes for Koerner, Ray & Glover's 1964 album (Lots More) Blues, Rags & Hollers. Plus Johnny Black talks to Beatles tour manager Tony Bramwell (1946-2024) in 2000.
Takin' it to the yachts: Sam Sutherland discusses the Doobie Brothers and more with blue-eyed soul icon Michael McDonald (Musician, 1981) and the singer talks to David Burke about Kenny Loggins and Thundercat (Classic Pop, 2018). Plus Paul Sexton sails into the sunset with the "treasure trove" of yacht rock in 2023.
No Love lost: KRLA Beat reporter Rochelle Reed almost walks out on an interview with Love's belligerent frontmen Arthur Lee and Bryan MacLean (July 1966). Plus she meets soul's hardest-working businessman James Brown (October 1996) and pens a "study in protest" after befriending folk princess Joan Baez in early 1967.
Spider man: Melody Maker's Max Jones meets folk-blues dude "Spider" John Koerner (1938-2024) in April 1966 and Paul Nelson pens the liner notes for Koerner, Ray & Glover's 1964 album (Lots More) Blues, Rags & Hollers. Plus Johnny Black talks to Beatles tour manager Tony Bramwell (1946-2024) in 2000.
The Dean and I: John Tobler talks to self-proclaimed "Dean of American rock critics" Robert Christgau about the Clash, Lou Reed and more in October 1982.
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