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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 Jan 29, 2021
Friday Jan 29, 2021
This is a clip from a 1992 phone interview I did with Sam Phillips, founder of Sun Records, and one of the founding fathers of rock 'n' roll. The interview, plus two more, and comments from the likes of Bono, Jack Clement and Dory Previn, are in my new eBook Elvis, Sam Phillips and Sun Records Revisited. But here we address a new rumour that had begun to circulate, courtesy of British journalist Roy Carr, who suggested that Elvis was not 'discovered' making a demo record at Sun. He had been peddling "for free" his mother amphetamines to black musicians, he was so eager to be discovered. At the time I thought the rumour was "bull" and I say so in this podcast. But the man who was there at the time was Sam!
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