Legendary interviews from rock/pop history / folklore

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A mate of mine is after "legendary" interviews for a piece he's writing; where's the best place to start?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 28 September 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

Dylan.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 28 September 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

Lou Reed/Lester Bangs.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 28 September 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

ian brown.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Thursday, 28 September 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

Hendrix/Dick Cavett.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 28 September 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

Ian who? Nah, I kid the Happy Mondays.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 28 September 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

Morley/Wham!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 September 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

When are these from and are they online?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 28 September 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

Bowie/Cameron Crowe - the coke-mad one where he says fascism is cool and he wants to be prime minister of England.

― Revivalist (Revivalist), Thursday, 28 September 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

The Wham! interview is in Morley's Ask: The Chatter Of Pop if you can find a copy. I couldn't find it online. It may be in Rock's Back Pages but you have to subscribe to access that.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 September 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

Hendrix and Cavett is on DVD, I think. Lou and Lester are in the LB books. Dylan stuff is all over the place -- "Don't Look Back" is a good place to start; that's where he decimates the Newsweek guy. Fact, that may be the best-known one.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 28 September 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

Marcello, what year was Wham! and Morley? I'm kinda drooling to read that.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 28 September 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

The Richie Edwards/Steve Lamacq razorblade one.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 28 September 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

Also the Pistols on the telly.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 28 September 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

Originally published in Blitz magazine, spring '84.

Choice extract:
Morley: You think my mind's made up, do you?
George Michael: You're making no effort to understand us...
Morley: I never knew I was capable of making it up.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 September 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

Haha!

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 28 September 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

richey gave great interviews in the year before he disappeared - the one w/ simon price was especially fantastic.

the 1970 john lennon/rolling stone interview will, as hunter thompson said of general macarthur's "fade away" speech, live forever as a masterpiece of insane bullshit, if nothing else.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 28 September 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

john lydon and keith levene w/tom snyder

― nerve pylon (flat_of_angles), Thursday, 28 September 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

Pavement in the English fanzine "Ablaze!"

― Pom (pom), Thursday, 28 September 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know - most of these seem like legendary confrontations, not interviews.

― Jim M (jmcgaw), Thursday, 28 September 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

I couldn't find the transcript of Dylan and the Newsweek guy, but I did find this website:

http://www.taxhelp.com/interviews.html

It's not tax help, it's just a bunch of Bob Dylan interviews, arranged chronologically.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Thursday, 28 September 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Smash Hits circa 1985 w/the Cure's Robt Smith

SH: do you ever hang out with other pop stars like George Michael?

RS: Hang out with George Michael? I'd like to hang George Michael!

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 28 September 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Bob Dylan, 1966 Playboy interview:

PLAYBOY: Mistake or not, what made you decide to go the rock-'n'-roll route?

DYLAN: Carelessness. I lost my one true love. I started drinking. The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game. I wake up in a pool hall. Then this big Mexican lady drags me off the table, takes me to Philadelphia. She leaves me alone in her house, and it burns down. I wind up in Phoenix. I get a job as a Chinaman. I start working in a dime store, and move in with a 13-year-old girl. Then this big Mexican lady from Philadelphia comes in and burns the house down. I go down to Dallas. I get a job as a "before" in a Charles Atlas "before and after" ad. I move in with a delivery boy who can cook fantastic chili and hot dogs. Then this 13-year-old girl from Phoenix comes and burns the house down. The delivery boy - he ain't so mild: He gives her the knife, and the next thing I know I'm in Omaha. It's so cold there, by this time I'm robbing my own bicycles and frying my own fish. I stumble onto some luck and get a job as a carburetor out at the hot-rod races every Thursday night. I move in with a high school teacher who also does a little plumbing on the side, who ain't much to look at, but who's built a special kind of refrigerator that can turn newspaper into lettuce. Everything's going good until that delivery boy shows up and tries to knife me. Needless to say, he burned the house down, and I hit the road. The first guy that picked me up asked me if I wanted to be a star. What could I say?

PLAYBOY: And that's how you became a rock-'n'-roll singer?

DYLAN: No, that's how I got tuberculosis.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Thursday, 28 September 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Sly Riot-era Rolling Stone interview.
Elvis Costello Armed Forces-era press conferences.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 28 September 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Babcock vs. Godsmack circa 2006!

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 28 September 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Bizzy Bone radio interview, Houston, 2003

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 28 September 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

You sure that Playboy interview was Dylan and not Tom Waits?

― adam j (In Place of Something Clever), Thursday, 28 September 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

Andy Warhol

― Adam S S (Zephery), Thursday, 28 September 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

Dunno if it's legendary or not but this NME interview with Shane MacGowan, Mark E Smith and Nick Cave is brilliant.

http://www.ktv.no/~oyl-ktv/nme%2025.02.89.htm

SM: "Its been proved by Acid House that anyone can make a record."

MES: "We're not thick, we all know that."

SM: "Look, I'm talking about the implications of Acid House"

MES: "There's nothing new in Acid House for me, pal. I've been using that process for years. Bloody years. It might be new for you but don't assume it's new for anyone else, because you're fucking wrong, pal.

SM: "What the fuck are you talking about? Have you made an Acid House record?

MES: "It's the same process, right. Have you had some sort of bloody revelation about Acid House?"

SM: "Hah! It's obvious if you listen they put Eastern melodies over it, bits of this and that..."

MES: "That's what music should always have been like."

SM: "It always was."

MES: "Why haven't you been doing it for years then pal?"

NC: "I think they have been doing it. I've heard zithers and so on. Eastern stuff and Turkish stuff."

MES: "We had jazz arrangements in '82 when the rest of those tossers were playing cocktail lounge music and fucking pseudo new wave, so don't talk to me about it because I know what I'm talking about pal."

SM: "Fucking hell, what's he on about?"

― everything (everything), Thursday, 28 September 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

lennon, rolling stone (published as Lennon Remembers, jokingly called Lennon Forgets later by Lennon himself; this is the one from 71 where he can't remember what album any beatles songs are on)....and the Lennon Playboy interviews from December 80

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 28 September 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

1. VON LMO in Punk
2. VON LMO in Black to Comm
3. VON LMO in Flipside

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 28 September 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

The Gallaghers say a few rude words to Steve Lamacq, circa 1995 or so.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 28 September 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

that canadian guy thats always confrontational with punk heros and has his own band. nardwar or something.

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 28 September 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

Nardwuar the human serviette

― factcheckr (factcheckr), Friday, 29 September 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

not sure what qualifies as legendary, but there's that q interview with roger waters where the interviewer is digging him and rog kind of loses it. he starts raving and ranting, either totally in character or totally out of control - he sounds like a character from _the wall_, like a cross between the mean schoolteacher and the nazi on the megaphone.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Friday, 29 September 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

Keiji Haino in Halana

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 29 September 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

March 11, 1977: Iggy on Canadian TV. (used in the first track of Mogwai's Come On Die Young album)

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 29 September 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

Grand Royal magazine vs. Ted Nugent. Original article and partial mp3 available here.

― xero (xero), Friday, 29 September 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Grand Royal magazine vs. Ted Nugent. Original article and partial mp3 available here.

― xero (xero), Friday, 29 September 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck. Sorry.

― xero (xero), Friday, 29 September 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

the coke-mad bowie one is here:

http://www.cameroncrowe.com/eyes_ears/articles/crowe_jrl_bowie.html

― jackl (jackl), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

late 80s or so: the Q interview where ex-Beatle Ringo Starski stalks off in a huff, calling journalist Tom Hibbert a wanker on the way.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 30 September 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDc0BhWwzjk
http://www.allmichaeljackson.com/interviews/oprahinterview.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13266573/
toby kieth in playboy jan 2006

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 30 September 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

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