Is That Machine On?

Seriously...

• Episode: Is That Machine On?
• Website: Seriously...
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• Duration: 00:59:07
• Published: 2018-06-01 10:30

Stuart Maconie celebrates the golden age of the music press interview. In the heyday of the printed music media between the mid-sixties and the early noughties, the music interview was many things - combative, intimate, confessional, unhinged, flirtatious, sometimes violent - but it was rarely dull. Still, it seems that long-gilded age of rock journalism is now over. The days of extraordinary access, when a reporter might spend a week with a band on its tour bus or private plane, hanging out in their dressing rooms and hotel suites, are at an end. The music papers are gone. Earlier this year NME - the last inky survivor - went online only. Stuart Maconie looks back at the lost world - those revealing encounters between journalist and musician. The programme features classic recorded archive interviews with Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Bob Marley and Michael Jackson - as well as contributions from journalists Caitlin Moran, Barney Hoskyns, Allan Jones, Dawn Slough and others. Presenter: Stuart Maconie Producer: Jonathan Mayo A TBI production for BBC Radio 4.