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Sunday, May 8th, 2016
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2015
It's been 25 years since Luther (2 Live Crew) Campbell released his debut album, Banned In The USA, a seminal hip-hop release. He has dealt with drugs, women, violence and, most of all, censorship and now talks the talk in his new autobiography, The Book Of Luke: My Fight For ...
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Saturday, July 26th, 2014
Dave Marsh remembers Johnny Winter, who died on July 16, 2014 in Switzerland, two days after his last performance, at the Cahors Blues Festival in France. Johnny Winter was 70.
The whitest man of them all could not only play the blues, he could play the hell out of them. For ...
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Sunday, February 2nd, 2014
In 2006, music writer Dave Marsh wrote the liner notes to Bruce Springsteen's We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions. When Pete Seeger died on January 27, 2014 at the age of 94, Marsh wrote the Seeger tribute below; and also presented the Remembering Pete Seeger special on the Live From ...
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Monday, August 12th, 2013
By Dave Marsh
Chet Flippo (known to friends as Flippo) - October 21, 1943 - June 19, 2013 - was born in Fort Worth, Texas. He was the son of Chet W. Flippo, a minister, and the former Johnnie Black.
When I first moved to Rolling Stone (from Newsday) in 1975, Chet ...
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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
The few who dislike the mannerisms of U2's Bono, now have a hefty body of evidence to refer to. The Rock & Rap Confidential man, Dave Marsh, reports.
In 1984 I wrote a hostile (to both music and words) review of U2’s Unforgettable Fire. Some weeks later, I found myself dragooned ...
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
Instead of rushing out with their review of Bruce Springsteen's Wrecking Ball, Dave Marsh and Danny Alexander decided to let the review simmer until now. The album doesn’t sound like anything else Springsteen has done, and its call stands apart, both musically and lyrically. It calls for us not only ...
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Sunday, June 26th, 2011
By Dave Marsh
Clarence Clemons, said both my daughter and Bruce Springsteen this week, passed through his life doing exactly what he wanted to do. Bruce said the rest, which amounted to admitting that you can't really do that, and the result of trying to is confusion and turbulence and discomfort ...
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Monday, August 31st, 2009
Once my mind cleared after word reached me that Michael Jackson had died, I wondered how much my 1985 book Trapped: Michael Jackson and the Crossover Dream was going for on Amazon ($14 used; $100 new) and came across a review from '85 that said, "Marsh... sees Jackson as a ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Levi Stubbs, the lead vocalist of Motown's Four Tops, passed away at his home in Detroit on October 17, 2008. He was diagnosed with cancer in 1995 and later had a stroke. Music critic and Rock & Rap Confidential editor, Dave Marsh, remembers the voice behind such gems as Bernadette, ...
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