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The Joe Jackson Interviews Joe Jackson Productions
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Print and broadcast interviews from my thirty-plus year career working for all major media outlets in Ireland. I am a journalist, author, and IMRO-award nominated radio presenter and producer. The interviews cover all fields from music to politics to culture and the arts.
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Joe Jackson celebrating the Carpenters. From The Joe Jackson Archive
I think we all should define for ourselves what is "cool." At one point it was decidedly uncool to liker the music of the Carpenters, but here I happily celebrated them on an Irish radio show
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Jon Bon Jovi 1993 on sex, gangs, and rock 'n'roll. From The Joe Jackson Archive
Here in 1993, I took Jon Bon Jovi to task for using the word "faggots" on stage, and he talks about all that other stuff. A slice of rock history.
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Mick Fleetwood, of Fleetwood Mac, talks about the Beatles's song A Day in The Life
For people like me who love John Lennon's song. A Day in the Life, and early Fleetwood Mac, this little chat is a revelation!
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Love Him or loathe Him This is Gene Simmons from Kiss in 1996
Not one of my favourite interviews and far from one of my favourite interviewees. But here, from my archive is a repost of the Gene Simmons interview from 1996
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Pushing Bob Geldof in 2001 about why he mocked Paula Yates in a song
I knew Bob socially, growing up in Dun Laoghaire, but he complained to an editor that I was "too hard on him: during this interview, You decide. Repost
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Leonard Cohen 1988 on the quest to sing in a voice that is true. From the Joe Jackson Archive
This is a podcast from my archive, first posted during the COVID pandemic and what Cohen says applies to us all, singers or otherwise