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THE TORI AMOS INTERVIEW. Copyright: Joe Jackson

THE TORI AMOS INTERVIEW. Copyright: Joe Jackson Tori Amos smiles mischievously and whispers “dare me to go under that table to get it back!” I do. And she does, without asking permission of our fellow diners in a plush London restaurant. They smile nervously as she resurfaces mumbling something about having lost her bottle top.…

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Welcome to Joe Jackson Interviewer.com

Hi. My name is Joe Jackson. And as I say in the video that accompanies this blog, ‘I became an interviewer purely to meet my heroes, starting with Leonard Cohen in 1985.’ Let me elaborate. Roughly twenty years earlier, when I was ten years old, I read a book called. The Elvis Presley Story and told my mother, “One day I am going to Memphis. Tennessee, to thank Mr. [Sam] Phillips for discovering my hero – Elvis.” That probably is where it all began.

But I didn’t just love Elvis. I loved pop music. So, four years later, even though I was too young to attend The Animals gig in Club Caroline, Glasthule, where I grew up, I sat on a wall outside the venue listening to the show. I almost shouted “Don’t push me” as Eric Burdon sang It’s My Life. But when I heard the opening notes of my favourite Animals 45 House of the Rising Sun, I had to get closer to the music. I wrenched a grill off the venue wall, climbed inside a ducting pipe, and crawled on my belly until, finally, lo and behold, I saw through the slits of a ventilation shaft The Animals, sadly minus Alan Price, sing and play that song.

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The Joe Jackson Interview. Nina Simone. 2002

The Joe Jackson Interview. Nina Simone. 2002 This article is copyright joe Jackson and must not be used in part or whole without permission in writing from the author. Picture this. Nina Simone is twelve years old. And even though relatively well-known as a child prodigy in her hometown of Tyron, North Carolina, you can…

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The Joe Jackson Interview. Johnny Cash. 1993.

The Joe Jackson Interview. Johnny Cash. 1993. This interview is copyright Joe Jackson and must not be used in part of whole without permission in writing from the author.                                             Johnny Cash is angry.  He  may  have  had  his  artistic  and  financial  differences  with  Sam Phillips, the  founder  of  Sun record  and  the  man  who “discovered”…

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