Joe Jackson

Elvis, Sam Phillips and Sun Records Revisited (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

When Joe Jackson was nine years old, he read The Elvis Presley Story paperback. He told his mother, "one day I'm going to Memphis, to thank Mr Phillips for discovering Elvis." On his 10th birthday, Jackson was, he says, "practically reborn" when he discovered "real rock 'n' roll" thanks to a three-year-old Elvis hit called, I Need Your Love Tonight. Two years later, in 1964, he heard for the first time "classic early Elvis uncut such as Good Rockin Tonight" and thus began his lifetime passion for Sun Records. It soon would include other Sun luminaries such as Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. "The Million Dollar Quartet wasn't just a pic I had pinned on my wall a circa 1969/'70, it represented my favourite music during the days of The Beatles and Stones," Jackson recalls.
In 1985 he became an interviewer and set his sights on meeting Sam Phillips. But Jackson by then didn't just want to thank him for discovering Elvis. He was Ireland's first writer in residence at a vocational school. The Irish Times claimed that an Irish magazine was "noted for" the "probing interviews" he conducted. He had a college degree in popular culture. "In fact, my viewing pop from a socio-political as well as a musical perspective prompted Sam Phillips to give me the interview in 1989, the only one of its kind that Sam ever gave. And in the end, he insisted 'it's the only way to tell my story and the story of Sun Records.' Sam addressed issues such as whether he was racist, had abandoned black musicians, was megalomaniacal. It also led to the classic quote, "Elvis was a belated cannon shot in the Civil War." It also led to Phillips revealing for the first time that he had ECT. After the interview ended, Phillips told Jackson, "I think you have an innate and intuitive sense of what Sun Records is all about."
This then led to them having the kind of relationship whereby during subsequent interviews "Phillips himself would bring up controversial issues such as a National Enquirer story about the nature of his relationship with his mother, and we discussed the same magazine's claim that Elvis was secretly bisexual and had an affair with Nick Adams. It was astounding, in ways," Jackson recalls. The author also discussed with Phillips and with Johnny Cash and "Cowboy" Jack Clement, a producer at Sun Records, the rumour that Elvis had been discovered not after making a demo at Sun by because he had been "peddling his mother's speed pills to black musicians. "But maybe most important was a discussion I had with Sam, Cash and the likes of Bono, about the fact that all of Presley's recordings were spirituals, in a sense, and this accounted for his longevity. Put another way, this is the story of Elvis and Sun Records, told in a way it has not been told elsewhere."

Elvis, Sam Phillips and Sun Records Revisited also includes the backstory of the book

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Joe Jackson
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781838338763
• Artikelnr.: 70173041

Autorenporträt

Joe Jackson, June 18th 2012,that pic of me is memory of a wonderful moment last Saturday, Bloomsday. Along with 110 other Irish writers I took part in a 28 hour reading session at the Irish Writer's Centre where we all attempted to break the Guinness Book of Records world record for public reading and did! I was thrilled.

I'm probably best known as an interviewer who has published five books and had my articles included in newspapers and magazines all over the world, from The Irish Times - I was their music interviewer for a decade - to Playboy and Rolling Stone. But I'm a writer! I decided at nine years old to become a journalist, when I saw a movie called Deadline Midnight, starring Jack Webb, that made journalism seem like a knightly quest. But when I was 20 my dad told me one night that he was abandoning his secret dream of "becoming a literary creator"and, in a knightly fashion, I picked up the gauntlet and decided to become both a journalist and literary creator. What a stupid thing to do, right?

But I can be stupid in ways,and after years of working on plays, poetry, memoir, and even giving readings of my own poetry, I moved into music journalism in 1985, with an Irish magazine that sadly now I'd rather not name. By 1988 The Irish Times was saying that magazine was "noted for its probing interviews conducted by" little old me. I loved interviewing right away, it helped me bring together my passion for literature, psychology, and even poetry, in ways. Then I did a degree in Popular Culture and started to apply also a socio-political microscope to people I interviewed and it all became even more fun.

I mean that seriously, folks. At the time, during the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, I was interviewing, or rather "grilling" terrorists, politicians, even a Taoiseach and two future presidents of Ireland.

So, now, I've drawn back from interviewing and with my new series of self-published book, The Joe Jackson Interviews Plus, I am making available the original, unexpurgated typescripts, plus the Back Story of my experience with each interviewee, and drawing heavily on diaries I kept at the time. I'm also exploring the option of making my more than 1,000 interviews available as MP3's and/or CD's.

Upcoming subjects for The Joe Jackson Interviews Plus series include, Bono, Tori Amos, Gerry Adams, Richard Harris, Elvis, Sam Phillips, Johnny Cash, The Chieftains, Bob Geldof, The Corrs and the...