//In conversation with (from top left) RBP’s Mark Pringle, Jasper Murison-Bowie and Barney Hoskyns//

I’m the featured guest on this week’s podcast from the world’s premier music journalism site rocksbackpages.com.

I go way back with RBP founder and author Barney Hoskyns; he commissioned pieces from me when he was Mojo editor in the early 90s and we launched my music press book In Their Own Write, RBP and photographer Jill Furmanovsky’s rockarchive.com on the same night at a Shoreditch gallery nearly 20 years ago.

I had fun talking to Barney and his confreres Mark Pringle and Jasper Murison-Bowie. The chat ranged from my background in trade journalism to, of course, the new Malcolm McLaren biography. Listen to the podcast here.

//David Harrison in customised Sex t-shirt, 1975//

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Tags: Barney HOskyns, Ben Is Dead, David Harrison, Forced Exposure, Grand Royal, In Their Own Write, Jasper Murison-Bowie, Jill Furmanovsky, John Lydon, Mark Pringle, Maximum Rock'n'Roll, Rock's Back Pages, Sex Pistols, Spice Girls, Toby Amies

Hats off to barnstorming Barney Hoskyns for compiling new Joni Mitchell anthology Reckless Daughter, which is published in November.

I fell under Mitchell’s spell in my early teens at the behest of an older brother and was lucky enough to see her live in the gig-crowded year of 1974 at London’s New Victoria Theatre.

Even while punk raged I kept the faith; 1975’s The Hissing Of Summer Lawns and the following year’s Hejira are stone classics to which I constantly return, and not just for the peerless music. The designs by her own hand (Mitchell is an accomplished visual artist) and the fashion-sheen photography of Norman Seeff add to the allure.

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Tags: Barney HOskyns, Court & Spark, Free Man In Paris, Joni Mitchell, Leonore Fleischer, New Victoria Theatre, Norman Seeff, Reckless Daughter, Rock's Back Pages, The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

I’m the featured writer this week in the Almost Famous slot on Rock’s Back Pages, the world’s leading resource of music-related journalism.

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Tags: Barney HOskyns, Jill Furmanovsky, John Stephen, Rock Archive, Rock's Back Pages, Rodney Bingenheimer