Paul McCartney demonstrates the mellotron Joe Hagan 2017-10-23 | Paul McCartney, in his studio in rural England, demonstrates the mellotron used on “Magical Mystery Tour.” Video by Joe Hagan, author of “STICKY FINGERS: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine.” Order now: indiebound.org/book/9781101874370http://www.joehagan.net
Joes Records & Tapes: BOO MITCHELL Joe Hagan 2020-07-16 | Grammy-winning Memphis producer Boo Mitchell takes Joe Hagan on a tour of Royal Studios, where Al Green recorded his greatest albums. From his father Willie Mitchell to Ann Peebles to Mark Ronsen to the Wu Tang Clan, Boo pulls back the curtain on a famed studio in the heart of Memphis.
Joes Records & Tapes: PETER GURALNICK Joe Hagan 2020-07-06 | Peter Guralnick, celebrated journalist and biographer (Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke, Sam Phillips), talks to Joe about his early life as a blues fan and music writer, how he became Elvis's biographer, and his friendship with the great Charlie Rich.
Joes Records & Tapes: LAURIE PEPPER Joe Hagan 2020-07-03 | The wife of the late jazz legend Art Pepper talks with journalist Joe Hagan about living with the junky sax genius and her role cowriting his electrifying memoir "Straight Life." Pepper is also author of her own fantastic memoir, "ART: Why I Stuck With a Junkie Jazzman: Inventing a Marriage."
Joes Records & Tapes: MERCEDES ELLINGTON Joe Hagan 2020-07-03 | The granddaughter of Duke Ellington, Mercedes was a pioneering dancer who broke the color line on national TV, appearing on the "Jackie Gleason Show" in 1962-63. She talks about her experiences touring Russia with the Ellington orchestra and what it was like taking the Jackie Gleason Express train through the South in the early 1960s. She also has a funny story about Miles Davis.
Joes Records & Tapes: MALCOLM CECIL Joe Hagan 2020-07-02 | Journalist Joe Hagan interviews Malcolm Cecil, legendary recording engineer and producer behind classic albums by Stevie Wonder and Gil Scott-Heron. Cecil was instrumental in helping Wonder reinvent himself in the early 70s, expanding his sound for albums like "Music of My Mind," "Innervisions," and "Talking Book." He explains how he met Wonder and how they created the sounds on those album, including how Wonder, as an unsighted singer, remembered the lyrics without a lyric sheet.
