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Joe Jackson is a journalist, interviewer, author and IMRO-Award nominated radio presenter/producer. He has interviewed roughly 1,400 people in the world of the arts, politics, and entertainment for all major media outlets in Ireland, including RTE Radio 1, The Sunday Independent, The Irish Times, and Hot Press. His articles have been published globally in magazines such as Vox, Rolling Stone, and Snoozer. His radio shows include The Years Go Pop, 26 one-hour documentaries a 26 on the history of popular culture, People Get Ready, 52 one-hour documentaries on the greatest music acts of the 20th century, and Under The Influence, which was nominated for a 'Best Music series' award. In 2018, his documentary about Elvis Presley, Conversations about the King, was nominated for an IMRO Award in the 'Best Music Documentary' category.
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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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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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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!
Saturday Apr 20, 2024
Love Him or loathe Him This is Gene Simmons from Kiss in 1996
Saturday Apr 20, 2024
Saturday Apr 20, 2024
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
Saturday Apr 20, 2024
Pushing Bob Geldof in 2001 about why he mocked Paula Yates in a song
Saturday Apr 20, 2024
Saturday Apr 20, 2024
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
Saturday Apr 20, 2024
Saturday Apr 20, 2024
This is a podcast from my archive, first posted during the COVID pandemic and what Cohen says applies to us all, singers or otherwise
Saturday Apr 13, 2024
Frank Zappa world exclusive interview from The Joe Jackson Archive
Saturday Apr 13, 2024
Saturday Apr 13, 2024
This interview happened by chance when I attended a Chieftains recording session in Zappa's home. It was one of his last interviews
Saturday Apr 13, 2024
Ray Charles went Country long before Beyonce!
Saturday Apr 13, 2024
Saturday Apr 13, 2024
I'm reposting this because it helps set in a historical context Beyonce's country album. Ray went there first, sixty years ago, and we touch on that subject
Saturday Apr 06, 2024
Joe Jackson celebrates the ultra cool Dean Martin. From the Joe Jackson Archive
Saturday Apr 06, 2024
Saturday Apr 06, 2024
A repost for a radio slot I did about Dino the week she died.
Saturday Apr 06, 2024
Saturday Apr 06, 2024
Great exchange with the late Gordon Stoker, one of the Jordanaires who tells it like it really was and not as you will read it in books about Elvis and that Sinatra show!