Mark Pringle

Farewell to the greatest keyboard player in all of rock & roll to date. R.I.P. Garth Hudson.
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New on RBP: an audio interview with The Band's keyboard genius Garth Hudson + archive articles about Phil Lynott and by featured writer Gene Sculatti. We're also saying goodbye to Chicago blues legend Barry Goldberg. rocksbackpages.com #GarthHudsonRIP

Any Luther Vandross fans out there, this is essential listening. Producer/bass player/friend Marcus Miller goes deep into their working relationship.

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R.I.P. Radio Caroline/BBC legend Johnnie Walker. David Hughes interviewed him for Disc & Music Echo in January 1968...
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Without whom: Melody Maker's Rob Partridge meets producer-to-the stars Richard Perry (1942-2024), left, in 1974 + Musician's Roy Trakin talks to him about Harry Nilsson (right), Captain Beefheart, Carly Simon & his many other illustrious clients in 1985. www.rocksbackpages.com #RichardPerryRIP

R.I.P. Alfa Anderson: new on RBP is Daryl Easlea's 2001 audio interview with Chic's Nile Rodgers, plus Hue & Cry's Pat Kane in the featured writer spotlight. We're also marking the 50th anniversary of Mick Taylor's departure from the Rolling Stones.
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Letting it bleed: Michael Lydon remembers touring America in 1969 with the Rolling Stones and fellow chronicler Stanley Booth (1942-2024), right, and the late David Dalton relives his true Southern adventures with Stanley in his native Georgia.
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New podcast episode: Hue & Cry's Pat Kane discusses his life as a musician and writer – and listens to our 2001 audio interview with Chic's Nile Rodgers.
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New on RBP this week we have an Elkie Brooks audio interview from 1989 + archive articles on the Bonzo Dog Band + Melody Maker mainstay Chris Charlesworth in the spotlight. Plus we bid sad farewells to TY Tim and Olivia Tremor Control's Will Cullen Hart.
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Middle class women of a certain age rock my world.

I’m sorry, you’ve all completely lost me here.

Sorry, Pete Wicks. Fuming.

I’m sorry, it’s a f***ing disgrace. The Andrew Tate/manosphere candidate Chris Wicks goes through while the brilliant Montell and Tasha have to go through the dance-off. Scrap the popular vote NOW!

Listen to Kraftwerk co-founder Ralf Hütter talking in 1977. Plus read an excerpt from a new biography of Carl Perkins, pieces by featured writer David Browne + a @joanarmatrading.bsky.social interview from 1976.
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The public vote on Strictly: out and out racism.

1975 image from Washington D.C. entertainment monthly Unicorn Times of musician Gil Scott-Heron

"When I first started to write poetry that I felt would be related in the oral tradition, it was [Langston Hughes' and Paul Dunbar's] work that I went heavily into."

Free to read til Friday on RBP: Gil Scott-Heron interviewed in 1975 by Richard Harrington.

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Cher turns back time in a 2001 audio interview: "I said to Geffen, 'I'm making movies and I think my singing days are over.' And John Kalodner said, 'Don't be ridiculous. You're a great singer, with THE most distinctive voice.'"
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