The Joe Jackson Interviews
Music Podcasts
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.
Location:
Ireland
Genres:
Music Podcasts
Description:
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.
Twitter:
@joejacksonjnr
Language:
English
Contact:
0872547242
Email:
joejackson@eircom.net
Episodes
Joe Jackson celebrating the Carpenters. From The Joe Jackson Archive
4/27/2024
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
Duration:00:07:01
Jon Bon Jovi 1993 on sex, gangs, and rock 'n'roll. From The Joe Jackson Archive
4/27/2024
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.
Duration:00:20:13
Mick Fleetwood, of Fleetwood Mac, talks about the Beatles's song A Day in The Life
4/27/2024
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!
Duration:00:05:57
Love Him or loathe Him This is Gene Simmons from Kiss in 1996
4/20/2024
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
Duration:00:34:33
Pushing Bob Geldof in 2001 about why he mocked Paula Yates in a song
4/20/2024
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
Duration:00:14:18
Leonard Cohen 1988 on the quest to sing in a voice that is true. From the Joe Jackson Archive
4/20/2024
This is a podcast from my archive, first posted during the COVID pandemic and what Cohen says applies to us all, singers or otherwise
Duration:00:08:40
Frank Zappa world exclusive interview from The Joe Jackson Archive
4/13/2024
This interview happened by chance when I attended a Chieftains recording session in Zappa's home. It was one of his last interviews
Duration:00:17:05
Ray Charles went Country long before Beyonce!
4/13/2024
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
Duration:00:21:26
Joe Jackson celebrates the ultra cool Dean Martin. From the Joe Jackson Archive
4/6/2024
A repost for a radio slot I did about Dino the week she died.
Duration:00:08:46
"Sinatra thought Elvis was a hick. I was there!" Gordon Stoker Remembers. From the Joe Jackson Archive
4/6/2024
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!
Duration:00:10:57
The Beach Boys. Mike Love Remembers Pet Sounds and so on. From the Joe Jackson Archive
4/6/2024
Mike Love and I backstage at a Beach Boys gig in America in 1989, reflecting on classic albums such as Pet Sounds, and more.
Duration:00:08:54
President Michael D Higgins 1993 Revisited. The Joe Jackson Interview
3/30/2024
This was originally a radio show, and it became one of my first podcasts in 2020. Time for a repost, of this revealing encounter with the man who has since become President of Ireland.
Duration:00:58:05
Nanci Griffith and her biographer Joe Jackson in conversation in 1993.
3/23/2024
The rapport I had with Nanci, apparent in this 1993 interview, led to her asking me in 1998 to co-write her book Nanci Griffith's Other Voices. I'm told, from Texas, there is a resurgence of interest in her work. That thought delights me. I dedicate this podcast to anyone discovering Nanci!
Duration:00:11:55
Joan Rivers. "The Night I Didn't Kill Myself.' Joe Jackson Archive
3/23/2024
Joan was a joy to interview, and even meet. Her story is hugely inspiring for those of us who sometimes yield to dark feelings
Duration:00:45:37
Neil Diamond "My Battle with the Mafia." Joe Jackson archive
3/23/2024
I am posting this again because I have learned that I was one of the few journalists to ask Neil about his ties to the Mob, who backed, he says, the Bang record label - with its logo, a smoking gun!!!
Duration:00:05:31
Dory Previn on Mia Farrow and Andre Previn, Valley of the Dolls and her addiction to pills
3/16/2024
Dory Previn said to me in 1986, "I hope that someday you write about my songs and life the kind of
psychosexual study you did of Sinatra's work." We made tapes, starting that year, and recorded up to 2000, with this in mind or me writing a one-woman show about her. Now, my hopes are set more on me and someone who is equally passionate about Dory, making a film.
Here she talks about the background of her songs Theme from Valley of the Dolls, Leomon Haired Ladies and Beware of Young Girlks. The latter two were directed at Mia Farrow.
Tapes copyright: Joe Jackson, not to be used commercially without my permission in writing.
Duration:00:17:33
Joni Mitchell 1998 backstage chat about her song, The Magdalene Laundries.
3/16/2024
This clip was recorded backstage in Madison Square Garden at a Bob Dylan/Joni Mitchell gig, and the sound is not great. Be warned!
But it is a historic clip, of Joni chatting about the song she wrote, The Magdalene Laundries, that was soon to be released on a Chieftains album, Tears of Stone.
And it will give you a flavour of being backstage
Duration:00:07:29
Cillian Murphy 2004 Like You Never Heard Him Before. The Joe Jackson Interview
3/9/2024
I previously posted parts of this as podcasts, but after some listeners pointed out that Cillian rarely is as open during interviews, particularly when it comes to his private life and deepest feelings, I decided to post the full exchange.
Duration:00:42:45
Discover Dory Previn. Joe Jackson one of rock's most neglected singer-songwriters.
3/6/2024
I was a fan of Dory Previn, who became her close friend and the person she asked to chronicle her life and songs. We never finished that work, but I have 20 hours of audio and some video and feel duty-bound to spread the word about Dory, one of the most groundbreaking singer-songwriters in rock .
Duration:00:09:11
Nancy Sinatra talks about herself, her father, Frank and Elvis Presley
3/2/2024
When I was a kid I stole from a local cinema a picture of Elvis and Nancy in Speedway. Interviewing her was a delight. We shared similar views about Elvis.
Duration:00:05:17