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Full Circle PodcastWhy Obedience Changed Everything for us: Who has your Yes?Hey Circle Up Fam! Welcome to another Friday with us! In this week's episode, our hosts Joe and Amahd talk the power of obedience. Scripture: Hebrews 3If you would like to donate to Circle Up Inc. and financially support the podcast, you can do so here ! ➤ https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=N4CN33E7NGBB2 If you would like to donate through $CashApp, you can do so here: https://cash.app/$CircleUpMinistries JOIN our Men’s Bible study: https://groupme.com/join_group/105971709/efpNZfDm Shop Me...2025-05-181h 01Full Circle PodcastDear Man of God: How to Make Marriage Work // Are You Sowing Seeds?Hey Circle Up Fam! Welcome to another Friday with us! In this week's episode, our hosts Joe, Amahd, and Chandrae talk about making marrriage & relationships work.If you would like to donate to Circle Up Inc. and financially support the podcast, you can do so here ! ➤ https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=N4CN33E7NGBB2 If you would like to donate through $CashApp, you can do so here: https://cash.app/$CircleUpMinistries Shop Merch with us ➤ belong clothing collection https://belongclothing.square.site/ _____________________________________________ Connect further with us ! Tik...2024-12-2054 min
The Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson celebrates David Bowie 1997. The Joe Jackson ArchiveI am writing a memoir, so new podcasts are few. But fellow Bowie fans might enjoy this chat I had on Irish radio in 1997
2024-07-2723 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson the Interviewer interviews Joe Jackson the singer!I had a bit of fun with my namesake while we discussed his musical influences. Btw, he was originally 'David Jackson' and I was always 'Joe'!
2024-05-1828 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson celebrating the Carpenters. From The Joe Jackson ArchiveI 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
2024-04-2707 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson celebrates the ultra cool Dean Martin. From the Joe Jackson ArchiveA repost for a radio slot I did about Dino the week she died.
2024-04-0608 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsCillian Murphy 2004 Like You Never Heard Him Before. The Joe Jackson InterviewI 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.
2024-03-0942 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsDiscover Dory Previn. Joe Jackson one of rock's most neglected singer-songwriters.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 .
2024-03-0609 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoan Baez Irish Times interview with Joe Jackson 1993 RepostTalking with Joan Baez was a total joy for me. I hope fellow fans share this joy. Repost from 2021
2024-03-0225 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson Soul Searching with Sean HughesI am reposting this becuase it was supposed to be a radio broadcast that was cancelled at the last moment, and never broadcast. Some fans and friends of Sean say it is the best interview he ever gave.
2024-03-0257 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsTommy Tiernan opens up to Joe Jackson about teenage depressionThis is a repost because the subject matter is as relevant today as it was when Tommy and I had this chat. I'm glad to see he is continuing my style of interviewing!
2024-02-2416 minThe Joe Jackson Interviews"How we wrote the song N17." The Sawdoctors tell Joe Jackson the story in 2000This is a repost from when the song became a hit again. I post it for the Irish diaspora in particular.
2024-02-2404 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsGerry Adams 1993 interviewed by Joe JacksonWhen I was recording this cassette I knew I was capturing on tape contemporary Irish history. Thirty-one years later the tape is even more significant historically.
2024-02-2421 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJames Dean rembered by Dennis Hopper. From the Joe Jackson archiveAmazing slice of film history, the iconic Dennis Hopper and me talking about Dean
2024-02-1009 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsThe Corrs from The Joe Jackson Archive. RepostIt's been nearly thirty years since I first interviewed Andrea Corr; I see they are back on tour. Here's a slice of Corr's history for their fans
2024-02-1044 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsMike Murphy in conversation with Joe Jackson Mike Murphy was my mentor in broadcasting. We worked together for more than a decade on The Arts Show, and he asked that I be his substitute presenting the show in 1995, which started my broadcasting career. This is an interview we did when he was retiring from radio - a great loss to broadcasting in Ireland. His made the arts popular
2024-01-2756 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Dolan and Joe Jackson. There is no show like a Joe show doubled!Joe Dolan was great fun to talk to. Here we talk about his musical influences and life.
2024-01-2055 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJerry Lee Lewis Says He Will Kill Joe Jackson. RepostI'm reposting this because it will be part of a film I plan to make. I became an interviewer to meet my music heroes. Jerry Lee is one I wish I'd never met.
2024-01-2005 minThe Joe Jackson Interviews”Cillian Murphy, do you want me to break your nose?” says Joe Jackson 2004This is one of my "Singles" podcats for fun! You'll have to listen to find out why I asked Cillian in 2004 if he wanted me to break his nose. Enjoy!
2024-01-1306 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsTommy Tiernan The Joe Jackson Interview 2004 Part TwoI am glad so many people, particularly here in Ireland, where Tommy does my style of interview on TV, listened to part one of this twenty-year-old interview. It may be the only in-depth interview the usually guarded Tommy Tiernan ever gave. Copyright: JJ!
2024-01-1330 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsNeil Diamond 2002 tells Joe Jackson about a close encounter with near deathI'm reposting this becuase I am writing about my own near-death experience five years after Neil told me this story. Such experiences c an change a life.
2024-01-0605 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsThe 2004 Tommy Tiernan interview by Joe Jackson Part 1Someone said to me recently, 'I see that Tommy, on TV, tries to do the kind of interviews you've done all your life!" Maybe he does. Check this and see.
2024-01-0631 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson 1997 celebrates David BowieIt's coming up to Bowie's birthday - same date as Elvis's - so I am reposting this little tribute I did to the man and his genius in 1997
2023-12-3017 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson’s Conversations about the King (Elvis) radio show.It's coming up to what would have been Elvis's 89th birthday, and I still believe Bas Luhrman got him wrong and did the story of his spiritual quest a disservice. Here's an edited version of a radio show I made five years ago
2023-12-3035 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsKirsty McColl 1993. A Personal Tribute from Joe JacksonNow that Fairytale of New York is back in the charts let's not forget the late Kirsty McColl, who adds her own musical magic to that timeless Christmas classic. In 2020 when I originally posted a podcast of just her talking about the song, I realised I was doing her memory a disservice, so I immediately followed that podcast with this. Repost.
2023-12-0834 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsSo are they gay rock songs or not? Joe Jackson discusses Rock on the Wild SideA bit of fun I had on Irish radio back in 1994, which annoyed some people who didn't want to know that their favourite rock songs may have gay connotations to be gay. Seems silly to deny it now.
2023-11-2517 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsThe Christie Hennessy Story as you never heard it beforeThis is a programme I made for my radio series, The joe Jackson Tapes Revisited, but which was never broadcast. It's based on an Irish Times interview I did with Christie in 1993, and that is a moral warning to anyone wanting to enter the music business.
2023-11-2553 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsGeorge Martin the Beatles’ record producer talks to Joe JacksonThere is a lot of hype around this week about the Beatles "last single, Now and Then, a song that, in my opinion, has a decidedly underdeveloped lyric and is far from the best of the Beatles. In this podcast, George Martin talks about his role as their record producer.
2023-11-0510 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson interviews one of his music heroes Ray CharlesThis was only a phone chat, but as you will hear, I love the music of Ray Charles and have loved it since I was a child, and I got to thank him for that! A total joy, talking to Ray.
2023-10-2821 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsMark Knopfler: The Joe Jackson InterviewA chat between people who love music - for people who love music! Simple as that!
2023-10-2839 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJerry Lee Lewis to Joe Jackson ”Give me a good write up or you are dead!”Jerry Lee Lewis has died since I first posted this podcast three years ago. I don't want to speak ill of the dead. So, I won't. But I've loved his music since I was a kid, still do, yet this was my less than pleasant encounter with the man in 1996
2023-10-2805 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsThe Best interview about Richard Harris. Miriam O’ Callaghan and Joe Jackson.The response in Ireland to this broadcast in 2022 was remarkable. I was told that it changed people's perspective of Richard Harris in fifteen minutes. That's what I set out to do with my first Harris interview in 1987. I hope the podcast does the same thing.
2023-10-1419 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJimmy Savile 2001. Joe Jackson Attempting to Unmask a MonsterA new drama, starring Steve Coogan as Jimmy Savile, will soon air on BBC television. It feels like a good time to revisit my 2001 interview with Savile
2023-09-3040 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsBono and Joe Jackson In Search of the ”King” ElvisElvis brought rock 'n' roll to Las Vegas and ended up hating it because it stole his soul, he said. Bono is now on Elvis's stomping ground. So I'm reposting this podcast
2023-09-3013 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsGerry Adams 1993. The Joe Jackson InterviewThirty years later, people might find it interesting to revisit this Gerry Adams interview. It should appeal in particular to fans of the Wolfe Tones
2023-09-0921 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson’s Greatest Hits...and Misses. Life Lessons from Celebs Vol 1Interviewing was never just a job for me. I'm not even a trained journalist. I come from the world of the arts nad happily admit that I was searching for "timeless, universal truths" and "transcendence from the start. How's that for pretentiousness!!!
2023-09-0213 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsGabriel Byrne 1988 . ”The first totally honest, soul-searching interview I gave.My Ebook Gabriel Byrne: The Joe Jackson Interviews Plus, remains very popular. Here, for those who read it, is part of one of the interviews in the book
2023-08-2620 minThe Joe Jackson Interviews”Elvis did not peddle speed at Sun Records.” Sam Phillips to Joe Jackson 1993Circa 1993, a rumour circulated that Elvis was discovered at Sun Records because he supplied musicians his mother's diet pills - speed - which he was using, it was claimed. To me, the rumours were bs perpetrated by a Britsh rock journalist called Roy Carr, so I phoned Sam and asked him and that. This is from my eBook, Elvis, Sam Phillips and Sun Records Revisited.
2023-08-1910 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsNick Cave and Joe Jackson discuss Elvis, Scott Walker and Leonard CohenAfter this interview, Nick Cav e chased me down the stairs of a hotel while other people were waiting to interview him. He wanted to talk some more about my having met Sam Phillips. That says it all. This is the second of my three Elvis podcast reposts to mark the anniversary of his death
2023-08-1235 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsR.I.P. Tony Bennett. A Joe Jackson celebratory podcast made for his 95th birthdayI love Tony Bennett's music and was blessed to interview the man three times and have dinner with him on one occasion, as his guest. May he rest in peace.
2023-07-2105 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsThe Joe Jackson ’Zooropa’ interview revisited 30 years later. RepostHard to believe it's been thirty years since Bono gave me a world-exclusive preview of the Zooropa album. This is a radio show - never broadcast - I made in 2016. To mark the 30th anniversary of this album, I am reposting this 2020 podcast
2023-07-0646 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsSoul-Searching with Celebrities. The Backstory of The Joe Jackson Interviews Episode 1I am reposting this old podcast simply because a lot of people seem to have become more interested my own story since I published in 2022 my best-selling book in Ireland, Richard Harris: Raising Hell and Reaching for Heaven. It's all the same story, actually!
2023-07-0636 minThe Joe Jackson Interviews”Just don’t mention Bob Dylan and we’ll get on fine.” Joan Baez to Joe Jackson in 1993.In 1993, I had a weekly. music slot for The Irish Times and, frankly, there were few musicians who didn't want a three-quarter page spread in that newspaper. Amid the hundreds I interviewed, there were those, such as Joan Baez, who I admired deeply, in her case politically as well as musically, and it was a joy to talk with her.
2023-06-1025 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsIrish President Michael D Higgins Unleashed 1993 Style. The Joe Jackson Tapes Revisited.A re-post to mark the thirtieth anniversary of this interview I did with Michael D, which was hugely controversial at the time. More recently, in 2016, I tapped into the tapes for an edition of my radio show The Joe Jackson Tapes Revisited. This is it. Higgins unleashed ina way that, as President, he can't be today.
2023-06-1058 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsGeorge Martin ”the fifth Beatle’ talks to Joe Jackson about producing Beatle sessionsI fought on the side of Elvis against the Beatles during the 1960s as a child, but who couldn't love the music of the Beatles? It was an absolute joy for me to sit and chat with their producer, George Martin.
2023-06-0510 minThe Joe Jackson Interviews”So, Sam Phillips, did you force Elvis to sing black music?” Joe Jackson investigatesSince I made this podcast, Baz Luhrmann has released his version of Elvis's story, which is mostly lies! Elvis himself once said, "I never sang a rhythm tune until I went to Sun Records." I'd read that line as a kid but forgot it when I finally got to interview Sam in 1989. Yet, I still believe Elvis set out to be a singer in a gospel quartet or a pop singer. All his early demos were ballads! But here, Sam gets pissed when I suggest all this. Nevertheless, we went on to become friends, and I shall post other p...2023-06-0510 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson outtake interview from the movie The Ghost of Richard HarrisI am reposting this podcast because people have reminded me that the film, The Ghost of Richard Harris, is screened on almost a weekly basis on Sky Arts in the UK. I did a two-hour interview for the film, of which I am an associate producer, and that is based on my interviews with Harris, but the best parts of this interview were cut from the film, I believe! As Richard Harris so often told me about movies he had made! The full text of all my interviews with Richard is in the 2022 book Richard Harris: Raising Hell and...2023-06-0525 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson singer interviewed by Joe Jackson journalist. Who’s the Man? Repost"So, are you Joe Jackson, the singer?" I admit I have been asked that question so often - usually outside my homeland of Ireland, where it's widely known which Joe Jackson I am! - that I may start to say, "Yeah, I am!"
More seriously, to clarify that I am not Joe Jackson, the singer, and can't even sing, but I love doing interviews; here I am with the other JJ back in 2001.
2023-05-2728 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsBono: The 1993 Joe Jackson Zooropa Interview Part One.It was thirty years ago I got my "world exclusive" interview with Bon about U2's yet-to-be-titled next album, which turned out to be called Zooropa. This podcast is one of two parts based on my 2018 radio show The Joe Jackson Tapes Revisited: Bono. The full interview is in my ebook, Bono: Soul Searching and Uncensored.
2023-05-2229 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsWho the hell is Patrick Kielty? The Joe Jackson 1998 Interview Part One.Patrick Kielty will be the next host of The Late Late Show; it was announced this weekend. A quarter century ago, we sat down and did an in-depth interview, upon which I base this, the first of perhaps three podcasts. I haven't heard the tapes myself since 1998, and boy, is it wonderfully irreverent, funny and revealing. Enjopy.
2023-05-2230 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsSean Keane of the Chieftains: The Music That Made Me Want To Make Music. A Joe Jackson tribute.Sean Keane died yesterday. This is my tribute to the man, his memory and the music of the Chieftains. it is a short clip from a one-hour show I did with the Chieftains
2023-05-0909 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsThe Chieftains in conversation with Joe Jackson 2000. In memory of Sean KeaneI am deeply saddened to hear of the death of Sean Keane. I got really close to all the members of the Chieftains because I championed their work in the same way that most of my fellow music critics in Ireland choose to champion U2. I prefer the Chieftains. Their music is the soil and soul of Ireland, but it also is timeless and transcendent and universal. It was a total joy for me to have this chat with all the members of the Chieftains back when the world was a little kinder to us all. Sean Keane R...2023-05-0810 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsNils Lofgren 2009 The Music That Made Me. A Joe Jackson repostBruce is back in my home city of Dublin. I have great memories of this interview in 2009 when Nils called to my home, and we did this interview for a radio show of mine. I'll never forget him holding a toy Elvis guitar I had since I was a child and saying, 'Bruce would love this." Listen to a great chat between two music nuts!!!
2023-05-0529 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsThe Ghost of Richard Harris movie. Joe Jackson’s interview outtake.Repost. The best interview about Harris?A repost because this weekend in Ireland, the film The Ghost of Richard Harris, inspired by and based on my interviews with Richard over a fourteen-year period, may win a BAFTA award in Ireland. I am in the movie and was an associate producer of it. I did a two-hour interview - maybe the best I ever gave about Richard - and only fragments were used. This is part one of three podcasts that will make it all public.
2023-05-0425 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsDave Fanning and Joe Jackson discuss dealing with the death of a mother and father.Dave Fanning and I do not like each other. We never have. But during the one interview we did when we both were working for RTE, we had an exchange about dealing with the death of loved ones, such as a mother and father. The fact that Fanning and I dislike each other is irrelevant. I hope this conversation heps listeners.
2023-04-0116 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson on Jerry Lee Lewis. The night the Killer threatened to Have Me Killed. Re-postJerry Leww Lewis has died since I posted this podcast a few years back. I became an interviewer to track down and talk with my music heroes. As a kid during the 1960s, I adored the music of Sun Records, including everything recorded by Jerry Lee. During the 1970s, I loved his country music. But he and PJ Proby are the two of the music heroes I wish I had never met. This podcast may explain those who say 'you should never meet your heroes' are sometimes right.
2023-04-0105 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson’s uncut interview from The Ghost of Richard Harris film. The best interview about Harris ever?The 2022 documentary, The Ghost of Richard Harris, now showing on Sky Arts and elsewhere and nominated for an IFTA award, came into being because its director, Adrian Sibley, became aware of the taped interviews I did with Richard from 1987-2001. He decided to use them to voice the 'ghost', and this adds an extra depth to the film, said the Guardian newspaper. I also am an associate producer of the film and one of its interviewees alongside the likes of Russell Crowe and Vanessa Redgrave. Aye, but there's the rub, to quote Shakespeare. The interview I did with Adrian...2023-03-2625 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsThe Joe Jackson Tapes Revisited radio show. Eartha Kitt. 2018. ’An extraordinary hour,” said The Irish Times.This is a re-post of one of my first podcasts in 2020. I am re-posting because I am currently reading through my journals for a proposed documentary that may be made about me, and I came across something wonderful Eartha Kitt, a woman I admired greatly, said to me after this interview in 1987. She said, "I feel you are interested in me, in the spirit of Eartha Kitt, not the image." I was. Also, this was one of my first interviews, and I was, from the start, doing my damndest to do interviews that outlasted the latest issue of whatever...2023-03-2649 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson recalls buying dope from Bob Geldof in 1970 and making a holy show of himself! Re-post.This is a fun re-post from 2021, with me remembering teenage encounters with Mr Geldof in Dun Laoghaire and showing just how cool I was as a kid - not! It's one of my 'Singles' podcasts because it lasts roughly the same time as, say, a single such as I Don't Like Mondays. I hope it makes you smile. No, Bob, I don't mean you!
2023-03-2504 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsPaula Yates 1993 talks to Joe Jackson about sex, ageing and life. A repost.This week I saw on Channel Four part two of a fascinating documentary about Paula Yates and her final years. I have yet to see part one. I am reposting this podcast in memory of Paula and to remind people what a joyful, life-affirming and fabulously flirtatious woman she was. I'll also re-post a podcast based on an interview I did wth with Bob Geldof - missing from the TV show - and in which I asked why he mocked Paula in a song he released after her death.
2023-03-1831 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsBurt Bacharach Tribute 2 by Joe Jackson. Painted from Memory radio review 1998I say in this interview that I don't particularly like Elvis Costello. That, with apologies to his many fans and the man himself, if it would concern him in the slightest, applies to the interviews we did and his music. But I love the music of Burt Bacharach, particularly when he worked with the truly poetic lyricist Hal David. Burt died this week. This is the second and last of my two podcasts celebrating the man and his music.
2023-02-1105 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsA Burt Bacharach tribute from Joe Jackson. Joe reads his 1998 Bacharach interview.I love Burt Bacharach's music. Simple as that, though I wish more people would similarly celebrate the work of his greatest lyricist, Hal David. Either way, Burt died this week, and in this, the first of two podcast tributes I want to upload, I read an interview I did with the man over the phone in 1998. My one regret is that we never did a face-to-face interview. And, by the way, after I told him I had a bootleg of Elvis's recording session for Any Day Now, he asked me to send him a copy, and I did.
2023-02-1110 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson reassuring a ”tentative” Richard Harris during a 2001 phone call."This man seems to have a bottomless well of things he wants to tell you," said one of my editors, Madeleine Keane, while reading the last interview I did with Richard in 2001. When I told him that, he said, "tell her she's right!" It's a great quote. But it's not in my latest book, Richard Harris: Raising Hell and Reaching for Heaven. Why is it not? Becuase, as I say in the introduction to this podcast, I didn't discover the long-lost tape until after I finished the book. I also say that hearing the tape for the first time...2023-02-0908 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsChristy Dignam 2004. The Music That Made Me radio show with Joe Jackson. A repost hopefully to help cheer up ChristyI am reposting this 2021 podcast right now, in February 2023, hoping that Christy will hear it during a difficult time for him, his family, and his fans, and thinking that it just may make us all smile for a while. This is me and Christy talking about something we both love - music, which, in and of itself, can be transcendent and help our spirits rise above everything that sooks to oppress us. I wish Christy well and pray he gets well soon.
2023-02-0452 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson and Marty Whelan chat about Richard Harris, Jimmy Webb, and Joe’s biography of HarrisThis is the second of maybe three podcasts based on interviews I did in late 2022 and early 2023 about my book Richard Harris: Raising Hell and Reaching for Heaven - the first hardback print run of which is nearly sold out I am happy to say
Here is a half-hour chat - minus music which I can't use for copyright reasons - I had with the ever-effusive Marty Whelan, a legend in Irish broadcasting who works for RTE, a station I worked for between 1989 and 2018. Looked at from another angle, you could say this is two Richard Harris...2023-02-0431 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson’s tribute to David Crosby. R.I.P. A conversation with David circa 1990Ninety or so minutes ago, here in Dublin, heading towards midnight, I read that David Crosby had died. As someone who came of age and fell in love for the first time during the early 1970s, the songs of Crosby, Still and Nash, particularly their debut album, meant so much to me. I also later in life became an interviewer and got to interview Crosby, Stills and Nash during one session circa 1990. I haven't listed to the tape since then. I didn't listen to it tonight. But I wanted to share with fellow rock fans, David's friends and family...2023-01-2037 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson interviewer 2023 interviewed about his book Richard Harris Raising Hell and Reaching for HeavenIn late 2022/ early 2023, I was interviewed many times on Irish radio about my book, Richard Harris Raising Hell and Reaching for Heaven. In other words, as a professional interviewer, the tables were turned on me. This is the first of two podcasts based on those interviews.
2023-01-0830 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsScott Walker on The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore from Joe Jackson ’s Ebook The Fugitive Kind. Repost.In 2000 Scott Walker asked me to allow him to use a 1990 12,000-word two-part article I wrote about his work as the essay for his 5-CD box set Five Easy Pieces. Sadly we couldn't come to an agreement on the deal. So, I have published the essay and its backstory as an Ebook. This clip, however, is from a major in-depth interview we did in 1994, and we talk about what Scott rightly described as one of the best pop records ever made in the UK.
2022-12-2909 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson’s personal tribute to Ronan CollinsYesterday, December 9th 2022, I read the sad news that my one-time fellow broadcaster in RETE Radio 1, Ronan Collins, is vacating his daily music show, though he will still do occasional programmes for the station. Even so, for 43 years, his voice has been part of the social fabric of Irish society, so, today, I put together this, my personal tribute to the man - even though he slagged me!
2022-12-1012 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsReviewing the reviewer. Joe Jackson deconstructs a review of his Richard Harris book.Today, December 10th, I have published in the Irish Independent, a letter under the headline, 'Why review of my Harris book made me laugh.' It is a reference to Daily Telegraph writer Jasper Rees. Today also happens to be the 90th birthday of Richard Harris's only remaining sibling, Noel. He told me he "felt sick" when he read in the Irish Independent the review by Mr Rees. This is my response.
2022-12-1020 minThe Joe Jackson Interviews’My friend Richard Harris. Joe Jackson recalls some fiery encounters.’ Joe Jackson reads his own article.'My friend Richard Harris. Joe Jackson recalls some fiery encounters.' That was the headline on the front cover of the Irish newspaper, the Sunday Independent, on September 4th 2022. It was a 'hook' for 'A Turbulent Journey,' a 4-page article in the newspaper's Life magazine. The strap for that article said, 'Richard Harris and Me: The Journalist who cracked the actor's 'fake facade,' revealing the human behind the hellraiser. Journalist Joe Jackson interviewed Richard Harris for the first time in 1987. A deeply insightful and occasionally fiery encounter, it was the catalyst for a friendship that would endure...2022-12-0216 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsRichard Harris was a hell raiser, we all know. But he also was reaching for heaven. A Joe Jackson ”singles” podcast.Today, November 17th 2022, the biography Richard Harris once asked me to write, is finally published. It's called Richard Harris: Raising Hell and Reaching for Heaven. This short podcast explains why I choose that title and tells you something few people know about Richard. My book is full of such revelations, mostly in his own words, as in here.
2022-11-1707 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsRichard Harris talks about the song Didn’t We and Jimmy Webb. A Joe Jackson ”singles” podcastHere, Richard Harris, on August 8th 2001, discusses with me his 1968 recording, Didn't We. And takes some sideswipe at its composer, Jimmy Webb. It is from my new Biography of the man, Richard Harris: Raising Hell and Reaching for Heaven. In the book, I finally tell the full story of his relationship with Jimmy Webb - at least from Ricard's perspective. And he could lie!
2022-11-0905 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsRichard Harris 1987 rips into psychoanalysis and his future biographer, Joe Jackson. A clip from Richard Harris Hell Raising and Reaching for HeavenThis is an extended, contentious, hilarious, and revealing clip from a longer podcast I am making called Richard Harris: Raising Hell and Reaching for Heaven - the title of my long overdue Richard Harris biography. How long overdue? Thirty-three years! Richard appointed me to write this book in 1989 but died before we could finish it. I've now written it to mark the 20th anniversary of his death and because my audio tapes with the man voice the 'ghost' in the Sky Arts documentary The Ghost of Richard Harris. But it uses only sound bites. This is one exchange uncensored a...2022-11-0716 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJerry Lee Lewis. The night ’the killer’ threatened to have me killed. A Joe Jackson ’Single’ repost.kJerry Lee Lewis died today. He was a great rocker and a great country singer and a great pianist. I loved his music all my life. Then I met him...
2022-10-2805 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsThe Real Elvis. Nick Cave and Joe Jackson ’two Elvis nuts’ discuss Elvis in-depth. RepostElvis is back in the building becuase of the Baz Luhrmann movie. But I believe that where he should have probed he skims over the soul of Elvis in so many ways. So, I'm reposting some of my in-depth conversations about the King.
2022-06-2422 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsGabriel Byrne: The Joe Jackson Tapes Revisited. ”The first totally honest, soul searching interview I did.”Gabriel is back in Dublin doing his one-man show. I am re-posting this, the first half of a one-hour show I made for RTE radio in 2016. Included is what Gabriel described as "the first totally honest, soul-searching interview" he ever did
2022-02-0236 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsMickey Dolenz 2000 Remembering the Monkees. A Joe Jackson tribute to Mike Nesmith RIP (Repost)One day in 2000, I was standing chatting to Mickey Dolenz in Dublin Hotel before we did an interview for radio. Billy Bob Thornton walked over, said, 'Hey, hey! I flew all the way to Dublin to see the Monkees show! Aren't they cool, man?" I said, "They always were." And they were. Even as a child I knew that. So, I am very sad to hear of Mike Nesmith's death. I never interviewed him but this is me and Dolenz telling the story of The Monkees in a way that he said had never been told before. I loved...2021-12-1032 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsGet Back by Joe Jackson. The Birth and Death of the Beatles. Lennon and McCartney in conflict.In this podcast, following my first podcast about Peter Jackson's movie Get Back, I say that I now suspect it was meant to be a Disney version, in every sense, of the break up of the Beatles, an antidote to Let It Be, I include two clips from my 1999 documentary about the band. Gimme Some Truth sang Lennon, a teenage hero of mine. I am not saying my documentary was true or that Let it Be or Get back are. But somewhere in between all three is the truth I happen to believe.
2021-11-2709 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsTori Amos on John Lennon, gun control and EminemThis clip is from my eBook Tori Amos Soul Searching and Uncensored. It was recorded in 2001 when Tori released her album, Strange Little Girls. Here we allude to the other Joe Jackson and talk about Lennon's song Happiness Is a Warm Gun, and related matters
2021-11-0506 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson Celebrates the Music of... Fred AstaireAstaire was a great dancer but also the singer of choice for many great songwriters. This is my appreciation of the man and his music.
2021-11-0508 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsPaul McCartney 1991. ”I was just trying to steer clear of heroin.” A Joe Jackson ”Singles”PodcastThis is one of my "Singles" podcasts, running less than five minutes. I was part of a small group of journalists supposed to interview Paul McCartney about his Liverpool Oratorio. But Beatle fans and McCartney fans might enjoy this tiny clip from before the real interview started.
2021-10-2804 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson Celebrates the music of...Dean Martin.I love Dean Martin's music, have done so since I was a child. He always struck me as infinitely cooler than Sintra! This a radio tribute I did after Dino died.
2021-10-2808 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsThe Chieftains. Paddy Moloney The Music That Made Me. A Joe Jackson Singles podcastPaddy Moloney died today, October 12th 2021. Here, from a radio show, we made in 2000, he remembers - in the company of the other Chieftains at the time - the music that influenced him at the outset of his career. A small man, in stature, but a giant in the world of Irish music. He will be missed. By, among others, some of the greatest musicians in the world, who played with the Chieftains.
2021-10-1209 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson Pays Tribute to Paddy Moloney. R.I.P. Frank Zappa. ”The Chieftains are better than U2.”This podcast made quickly while I was still telling from there news of Paddy Moloney's death, today October 12th 2021, is a reminder to people of how highly even music greats, such as Frank Zappa, rated Paddy Moloney and the Chieftains. He laughed at the idea that U2 were more highly rated in Ireland in 2000. I laugh at that idea, today, but I laugh ironically. Paddy Moloney R.I.P. He was a friend. I will miss him.
2021-10-1204 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson Interviewer. My Greatest Hits and Misses Part One. A repostI am preparing Part Two of this sub-series in The Joe Jackson Interviews Podcasts, so I am posting again, this podcast from mid-2020, not long after I started podcasting and before I had so many listeners. Btw, I thank you all, and welcome my new listeners in Russia!
2021-10-0836 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsScott Walker talks about The Sun Ain‘t Gonna Shine Anymore. ‘One of the best pop records, ever” he says. A Joe Jackson Repost.Many Scott Walker fans have bought my two Scott Ebookks during this year. So I am re=posting this chate we had about the magnificent singe, The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
2021-10-0809 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsA Neil Diamond joke. ”I‘ve had worse than death threats, someone threatened to leave me their Barry Manilow collection!” A Joe Jackson ”Singles‘ PodcastThis is a cllip I separated from my Podcast 'Joe Jackson Celebrates the music of...Neil Diamond,' because it is a bit of a laugh!
2021-10-0102 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson Celebrates the Music of...Neil DiamondNeil Diamond is too often stupidly dismissed by rock snobs, witness his treatment in The Last Waltz. I've loved his music since I was a child, especially songs such as Shiloh. In 1996 I was proud to celebrate his music in Irish radio and to talk about the interviews we did.
2021-10-0108 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson Celebrates the artistry of Charles Aznavour. ”One of the greatest and most neglected songwriters, ever.”I bought my first Aznavour album when everyone else was buying Ziggy Stardust by Bowie. his songs have become an intrinsic part of my life. I soon realised why Dylan, on the back of his album Another Side of Bob Dylan, a decade earlier had written of 'listening to Aznavour in the Village.' In 1996, I write about Aznavour for The Irish Times and did this radio slot that followed the article. I hope it helps some people discover Aznavour
2021-10-0111 minThe Joe Jackson Interviews”So, Brendan O Carroll, are you a dirty scumbag or just a funny guy?” A Joe Jackson Singles podcastThis podcast, as with Brendan O' Carroll's distinctive sense of humour, may offend some listeners. So if you are of a delicately sensitive nature - rugby players, politicians and so on - feck off! I'm kidding. But do tread carefully. The clip is from my Kindle ebook, Brendan O' Carroll: Soul Searching and Uncensored. Btw, sorry about the sound but the tape s 30 years old and the interview was recorded in a hotel lobby in Dublin
2021-09-2507 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsMorrissey 1994. ” A bit too old at 35 to be posing?” A fleeting critical analysis of The Smiths and Morrissey solo. A Joe Jackson Singles PodcastA review I did if Vauxhall and I, short as a single, meaning it suits my "podcast singles ' concept to a T, lasting roughly three minutes! Will I be "crucified" by Morrissey fans, as I say during the review. Maybe!
2021-09-1904 minThe Joe Jackson Interviews”So, tell me Micheal D Higgins, did you do drugs during the heady 1960‘s, man?” A Joe Jackson Singles PodcastDancing with Michael D Higgins, my former co-worker in an Irish magazine and now the much-loved President of Ireland. This is from a long interview - maybe the most extensive ever done by President Higgins - we did in 1993 and should not be taken seriously. It was just us having a bit of fun, man!
2021-09-1904 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsJoe Jackson 1999 celebrates the music of The Carpenters, particularly Karen Carpenter‘s other-worldly voice.Mike Murphy and myself on Irish radio in 1999 singing the praises of The Carpenters music and casting a critical eye over their career. Has their music lasted he asked me nearly a quarter-century ago? Time has proven that it has.
2021-09-0307 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsMary Black Under the Influence of...Joni Mitchell. ”Big Yellow Taxi was a song that changed my life!” A Joe Jackson Singles PodcastAs part of my "Singles" series of podcasts, running roughly five minutes, this is Mary Black talking with me about discovering Joni Mitchell, specifically her song, Big Yellow Taxi. If, like me, a song ever similarly rerouted your life, this may fire some old memories. Enjoy
2021-09-0304 minThe Joe Jackson Interviews”So, Bob Geldof, why did you mock your late wife, Paula Yates, on your album Sex, Age and Death?” A clip from ‘Bob Geldof: The Joe Jackson Interviews Plus.‘Bob Geldof, who I knew, albeit only socially since we were kids growing up in Dun Laoghaire, described this 2000 interview as a "f*****g tennis match of an interview." To continue his analogy, some will say Bob won the match, some may say I did. Some may say no one did. Either way this fifteen-minute clip comes from my eBook anthology 'Bob Geldof: The Joe Jackson Interviews Plus.'
2021-09-0315 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsMike Love, of the Beach Boys, on Good Vibrations, Pet Sounds, Brian Wilson, and the inability of the Irish to grasp intangibles! A Joe Jackson Singles PodcastThis is me having a bit of fun, fun, fun with Mike Love. I love the beach Boys, have all my life, since I first heard, I Get Around, as a child. So meeting Mike was a joy, even if at first he was a tad condescending! But we got over that, and after this gig at which the interview was recorded, I rode in his limo back to New York City where we talked some more. But that will be another podcast, this one is about Good Vibrations etc, man!
2021-08-2708 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsDave Fanning and Joe Jackson discuss dealing with the deaths of mothers and fathersThis is a short exchange - fifteen minutes - from a ninety-five-minute interview, I did with Dave in 2002 for the Irish newspaper, the Sunday Independent. I did nearly 400 such interviews and in all, I set out to find people who had travelled through dark times, endured and in some cases had epiphanies. I hope that might help readers. I have put the best in an eBook called From Darkness to Light, this podcast focuses on mostly Dave talk g about the deaths of his mother and father, but, as an aside, I also refer to the trauma of finding...2021-08-2716 minThe Joe Jackson InterviewsNanci Griffith in Conversation about Music. A personal tribute by Joe Jackson, co-author, with Nanci, of the book 'Nanci Griffith's Other Voices'It has been barely a day since I heard the heartbreaking news that Nanci has died. I wrote a personal tribute to her which will be published in the Irish newspaper, the Sunday Independent, tomorrow. But this podcast, the master tape of an interview we did in 2000 for my radio show Under the Influence, is another kind of tribute in that it will remind us how deeply she loved music and what she tried to pass on to people when she was alive. No doubt she will continue to do so.
Nanci Griffith RIP
2021-08-1429 minThe Joe Jackson Interviews"Sinatra thought Elvis was a hick." Gordon Stoker of the Jordanaires tells the true Presley/Sinatra story. From 'In Search of Elvis', a Joe Jackson Podcast seriesI am marking August 16th 2021, the forty-fourth anniversary of the day Elvis died and I set out on a personal quest to make sense of his death, and life, with this podcast, the first in a series called In Search of Elvis. Here, Gordon Stoker talks about his appearance with Elvis on the historic Ed Sullivan shows, Elvis's claim that he "wasn't up the calibre of" Sinatra and the Rat Pack and how Elvis, his musicians and the Jordanaires were seen as hicks by Sinatra and the clan. This is the history of Elvis as you never heard it...2021-08-1310 min