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New podcast episode: Beverley Glick aka "Betty Page" relives her New Romantic days and listens to an audio interview with Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran, the band she discovered in 1980. Plus we pay tribute to the great Quincy Jones... rocksbackpages.com/Podcast/Episod…

New on RBP: a New Romantics special w/ a Duran Duran audio interview + the spotlight on Sounds scribe Betty Page (who first used the "NR" term in print). We're also featuring archive articles on Primal Scream & the late great Quincy Jones. rocksbackpages.com #QuincyJonesRIP

When the wonderful Beverley Glick @IDigStories came by RBP's HQ yesterday to record the next episode of our podcast (going live Monday), she donated a bound volume of Noise!, Sounds' 1982 attempt at "doing" a Smash Hits. Blame @GarryBushell for the G.B.H. cover...

New on RBP: @WuTangClan's ODB in the week's new audio interview, 20 years after his death. Plus: how the Saints blazed punk rock's trail in 1976, the RBP spotlight on @PunkProfessor Vivien Goldman + our tribute to the Grateful Dead's immortal Phil Lesh. rocksbackpages.com

New podcast episode: Chris Salewicz recalls life on the NME in the '70s, listens to Gavin Martin's Amy Winehouse audio interview from 2006 + helps to rehabilitate Supertramp... rocksbackpages.com/Podcast/Episod… #NME #AmyWinehouse #Supertramp

What a cool shot of J.D. Souther and Warren Zevon in Philly, early '80s...

Going live later today: the very entertaining Chris Salewicz on the RBP podcast. Pictured is Chris in the RBP office clutching his promotional Supertramp mug + the Dec 1981 NME Billy Fury piece that mysteriously omitted the Salewicz byline (restored w/ a Sharpie by the author).

Unbroken chain: ZigZag's Andy Childs speaks to Phil Lesh (1940-2024) in 1974 and David Gans checks in with the Grateful Dead bassist in 1997. rocksbackpages.com

New on RBP: listen to an @amywinehouse audio interview from 2006, plus Supertramp's 'Crime' at 50 and NME legend @chrissalewicz on Led Zep, Marley, Strummer and Prince. #AmyWinehouse #supertramp rocksbackpages.com

New on RBP: a Goth special for "Helloween". Listen to the Cure's Robert Smith & Simon Gallup speaking in 1989 + Sisters of Mercy, Simon Price on Siouxsie & the Cramps and Bauhaus "undead" at Surrey University in 1980. rocksbackpages.com #goths #Halloween #TheCure

New podcast episode: Simon Raymonde recalls life as a Cocteau Twin... plus he talks about his father Ivor's arrangements for Dusty Springfield and his hallowed Bella Union label. rocksbackpages.com/Podcast/Episod…

New on RBP: a Dusty Springfield audio interview from 1989, plus classic Cocteau Twins pieces and our farewell to Cissy Houston. rocksbackpages.com #CissyHouston

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New on RBP: we remember Dave Godin, 20 years after his death. Listen to Bill Brewster's 1998 audio interview with the great soul evangelist + archive interviews with Neneh Cherry, Ben Edmonds on the MC5 + Stephen Dalton on Manchester's Haçienda club... rocksbackpages.com

New podcast episode: Robert Hilburn talks about his new biography of the peerless Randy Newman and his 35-year tenure at the Los Angeles Times. rocksbackpages.com/Podcast/Episod…

New on RBP: a Randy Newman special. Listen to the great man talking to John Hutchinson in 1983, plus his "Good Old Boys" at 50 + the RBP spotlight on his biographer Robert Hilburn. And we bid sad farewells to Cat Glover and Billy Edd Wheeler... rocksbackpages.com #CatGlover

This week on RBP: @bobdylan's Tour '74 revisited and a Leonard Cohen audio interview. Plus, Caroline Sullivan asks if @taylorswift13 is "the most powerful woman in music" and we pay tribute to J.D. Souther. rocksbackpages.com #bobdylan #taylorswift #music #journalism #rbp

New podcast episode: Andrew Smith discusses his new book 'Devil in the Stack' and listens to David Toop's 2001 audio interview with Björk. rocksbackpages.com/Podcast/Episod… #bjork

New on RBP: in a fab audio interview from 2001, @bjork talks to David Toop about 'Vespertine'. Plus we remember Frankie Beverly, look back at @thenotoriousbig and spotlight the writing of the excellent Andrew @wiresmith... rocksbackpages.com #Bjork #FrankieBeverly