The Joe Jackson Interviews

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...

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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...

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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...

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Ray Charles went Country long before Beyonce!

I'm reposting this because it helps set in a historical context Beyonce's country album. Ray went...

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Frank Zappa world exclusive interview from The Joe Jackson Archive

This interview happened by chance when I attended a Chieftains recording session in Zappa's home....

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The Beach Boys. Mike Love Remembers Pet Sounds and so on. From the Joe Jackson Archive

Mike Love and I backstage at a Beach Boys gig in America in 1989, reflecting on classic albums...

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"Sinatra thought Elvis was a hick. I was there!" Gordon Stoker Remembers. From the Joe Jackson Archive

Great exchange with the late Gordon Stoker, one of the Jordanaires who tells it like it really...

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Joe Jackson celebrates the ultra cool Dean Martin. From the Joe Jackson Archive

A repost for a radio slot I did about Dino the week she died. 

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President Michael D Higgins 1993 Revisited. The Joe Jackson Interview

This was originally a radio show, and it became one of my first podcasts in 2020. Time for a...

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Nanci Griffith and her biographer Joe Jackson in conversation in 1993.

The rapport I had with Nanci, apparent in this 1993 interview, led to her asking me in 1998 to...

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Neil Diamond "My Battle with the Mafia." Joe Jackson archive

I am posting this again because I have learned that I was one of the few journalists to ask Neil...

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Joan Rivers. "The Night I Didn't Kill Myself.' Joe Jackson Archive

Joan was a joy to interview, and even meet. Her story is hugely inspiring for those of us who...

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Dory Previn on Mia Farrow and Andre Previn, Valley of the Dolls and her addiction to pills

Dory Previn said to me in 1986, "I hope that someday you write about my songs and life the kind...

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Joni Mitchell 1998 backstage chat about her song, The Magdalene Laundries.

This clip was recorded backstage in Madison Square Garden at a Bob Dylan/Joni Mitchell gig, and...

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Cillian Murphy 2004 Like You Never Heard Him Before. The Joe Jackson Interview

I previously posted parts of this as podcasts, but after some listeners pointed out that Cillian...

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Discover Dory Previn. Joe Jackson one of rock's most neglected singer-songwriters.

I was a fan of Dory Previn, who became her close friend and the person she asked to chronicle her...

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Joe Jackson Soul Searching with Sean Hughes

I am reposting this becuase it was supposed to be a radio broadcast that was cancelled at the...

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Joan Baez Irish Times interview with Joe Jackson 1993 Repost

Talking with Joan Baez was a total joy for me. I hope fellow fans share this joy. Repost from 2021

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Nancy Sinatra talks about herself, her father, Frank and Elvis Presley

When I was a kid I stole from a local cinema a picture of Elvis and Nancy in Speedway....

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Gerry Adams 1993 interviewed by Joe Jackson

When I was recording this cassette I knew I was capturing on tape contemporary Irish history....

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