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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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Friday Dec 04, 2020
Friday Dec 04, 2020
From the 'Backstory of Riverdance: Clash of the Dancers,' section of my new eBook comes the best description of this podcast. 'In 1996 when I interviewed Michael Flatley, how could I have known that our little chat would leave Jean Butler incensed? Or know that, a year later, she would deliver via another interview, with me, what me editor correctly described as a "blistering broadside" against Flatley? Or that the latter would end up scolding me as if I was a wayward child?' But I also say in the intro to this podcast,' I tell a tale about the origins of Riverdance which has not been told elsewhere to this day. Certainly, the behind-the-scenes story has bever been told in this way and it probably won’t be because of confidentiality clauses that were written into Riverdance contracts after an interview I did with its composer Bill Whelen. But this eBook focuses on Butler and Flatley.'
Yes, in the eBook and the podcast I gave more space to Jean Butler becuase I have always believed that she has too often been written out of the story.
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