Joe Jackson

Scott Walker The Joe Jackson Interviews (Looking Back 'Through Mirrors Dark and Blessed with Cracks'). (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Scott Walker not only told Joe Jackson during the triple set of in-depth interviews they did in 1995 - one for radio, one for a rock magazine and the other for The Irish Times newspaper - that he remembered and really liked to review Jackson did of walkers album Climate of Hunter in 1984. He said it helped him redefine for himself how his music could best be described at that point. Then, in 2003, Jackson was informed that Scott Walker wanted to use as the booklet notes in the forthcoming box set Scott Walker in 5 Easy Pieces, a critique of Walker's life and work Jackson had written in 1990.
That critique formed the basis of Scott Walker The Fugitive Kind, Jackson's previous book about Walker which also contained its backstory and a personal appreciation of walkers music from the author's perspective as a lifelong fan. This book, Scott Walker The Joe Jackson interviews, is a companion piece to the first and it also includes a backstory focusing on aspects of the late Scott Walker's life that have never been discussed in public.
One of these interviews, when first published, instantly became legendary among fans of The Walker Brothers and Scott Walker, particularly those who read Walkerpeople, the newsletter of The Walker Brothers Appreciation Society, in which Jackson gave permission for it to be included for fans.
In its preface, Lynne Goodall wrote, 'From all the press interviews given by Scott this time round the definitive, in-depth interviews surely has to be that which appeared in over two consecutive issues in a music paper. Well-deserved congratulations to interviewer Joe Jackson (and his ever-inquiring mind ) for this 'epic' volume.' Jan de Rooij, from Holland, wrote, 'The 2-part Joe Jackson interview with Scott is the best I have ever read.' Patrick Rodgers, from Surrey, wrote, 'The Joe Jackson interview was remarkable- the sort of open-minded, appreciative approach to Scott's music and thinking that has been lacking for so long.' Pauline Armstrong, from Chester, wrote, 'What a masterful interview. Throw away the thumbscrews and send for Joe Jackson! What a shame that Mr Jackson didn't write Scott's biography - that would have been a real eye-opener.'
The latter comment, as Jackson says in this book, "had a sting in its tail." in 1990 he suggested to his literary agent that he would love to write a biography of Scott. She said, " I don't think there would be much interest right now in a biography of Scott Walker." However, 30 years later, Joe Jackson suggests that "both these books, particularly Scott Walker The Joe Jackson Interviews, which I subtitle 'looking back through mirrors dark and blessed with cracks ' - a quote from a seminal song Boychild - could legitimately be described as the autobiography that Scott Walker never wrote."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Joe Jackson
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781838338749
• Artikelnr.: 70173040

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...