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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...
The soul stirrer: Maureen Cleave meets Sam Cooke in 1962 and Roger St. Pierre asks who remembers the proto-soul star a decade later. Plus Lenny Kaye looks back in 2010 on the gospel-reared heartthrob who "stood at the crossroads of the divine and the secular".
Sit yourself down: at home in Bel Air, Stephen Stills talks Dave Zimmer through his life and career from military school to Thoroughfare Gap, via Buffalo Springfield and CSNY (February 1979).
Serving the servants: Edwin Pouncey asks Steve Albini (1962-2024) how the sessions for Nirvana's In Utero are going in early 1993. Plus Simon Reynolds talks to Steve about Big Black and the unfortunately-named Rapeman in 1992 and Ian Chiste hears about the "audio engineer"'s new project Shellac in 1994.
The soul stirrer: Maureen Cleave meets Sam Cooke in 1962 and Roger St. Pierre asks who remembers the proto-soul star a decade later. Plus Lenny Kaye looks back in 2010 on the gospel-reared heartthrob who "stood at the crossroads of the divine and the secular".
Serving the servants: Edwin Pouncey asks Steve Albini (1962-2024) how the sessions for Nirvana's In Utero are going in early 1993. Plus Simon Reynolds talks to Steve about Big Black and the unfortunately-named Rapeman in 1992 and Ian Chiste hears about the "audio engineer"'s new project Shellac in 1994.
All about her: a transcript of Barney Hoskyns' phone interview with the magnificent Anita Pallenberg, Keith Richards' former consort considers the role of the "muse" in the story of rock and roll (RBP, 1998).
Sit yourself down: at home in Bel Air, Stephen Stills talks Dave Zimmer through his life and career from military school to Thoroughfare Gap, via Buffalo Springfield and CSNY (February 1979).
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