The Joe Jackson Interviews

Mike Love on Brian Wilson , Good Vibrations and Pet Sounds

Really saddened by the death of Brian Wilson. I will post a podcast based on an interview we did. In the meantime, here is Mike Love - falsely claiming since Brian died,

What if the U2 story is a lie? Eamon Dunphy on Bono 1996

Bono makes magnificent self-promo videos. The latest is on Apple. However, most Irish journalists are aware that he has never told the whole story. Dunphy and I talked ab

Father Karl Wallner on Chant: Music for Paradise. (In Memory of Pope Francis).

While watching the funeral of Pope Francis on TV, I was transported by the hymns being sung. It brought me back to my roots. I dedicate this podcast to the memory of Pope

The Kennedy Assassination (1) Anthony Summers 1990 responds to Oliver Stone's movie JFK

As I say in the intro to this podcast, made March 22, 2025, the week of the Trump dump of JFK assassination papers that still didn't tell us conclusively who killed Kenne

Father Ted at 30. Dermot Morgan. The Joe Jackson Interview 1995 part 1

It does not seem like thirty years since I sat and chatted with Dermot before he was forced to leave Ireland to go to the UK to get a TV station to back Father Ted. I'm r

Ronan Keating 2002. "Why I broke up Boyzone. Louis Walsh told us it would all end in tears."

Boyzone No Matter What, the Sky documentary being screened globally, originated in The Joe Jackson Archive of 1,400 tapes of celebrity interviews. It uses my tapes and ph

Kris Kristofferson on drink, drugs, Elvis, A Star Is Born. "The death scene saved my life."

I loved Kris Kristofferson's music since a girlfriend gave me his first LP. So you can imagine what a joy it was to meet and interview the man for the first of four times

Kris Kristofferson talks about Johnny Cash and Sunday Morning Coming Down

Kris has died since I first posted this podcast. I love the song, was thrilled ot be able to talk to him abiut its geneisis and about Johnny Cash Enjoy

Pete Seeger 1998 tells Joe Jackson What happened when Dylan went electric at Newport. A Podcast single

I wrote a book called Nanci Griffith's Other Voices: A Personal History of Folk Music. For it, I did a half-hour phone interview with Pete Seeger - from Ireland to Americ

Sinead O' Connor. "Louis Walsh can really do damage with his mouth." A Podcast Single

While digitising my Boyzone interview tapes that led to the Sky documentary Boyzone No Matter What, I came across this short clip at the end of an interview, I was taping

Keith Duffy: "Louis Walsh stabbed Boyzone in the back to promote Westlife." Tapes from The Joe Jackson Archive, used in Boyzone No Matter What

Another uncut clip from the audio tapes that led to Boyzone No Matter What. The revelation of the series to many viewers seems to be that manager Louis Walsh was the "vil

Keith Duffy: "Ronan loved to play God. He broke my heart. " Boyzone No Matter What. The Joe Jackson Tapes uncut.

The tensions between members of Boyzone may be new and news to the millions of people watching the Sky Documentary Boyzone No Matter What, but they are not to me. The doc

From Boyzone Our Story to No Matter What, the Sky Documentary. The Jackson Tapes

The new Sky Arts documentary No Matter What originated in my archive of 1,400 celebrity interviews. I also wrote the book Boyzone Our Story and interviewed the lads in-de

Marianne Faithful R.I.P. Memories of Marianne and a remarkable 1989 phone interview

As I say in the intro to this podcast, hastily put together on 'the evening of the day' I heard Marianne had died, she was one of the most fascinating women I met, in, or

Leonard Cohen light-heartedly mocks Bono for getting wrong the words of Hallelujah

I love this phone chat I had with Leonard. It was our third interview and showed me and - when published in The Irish Times - that Cohen had a great sense of humour. But

Leonard Cohen 1985 talks about Love and Hate. The first Joe Jackson Interview

It's coming up to forty years since I, as a Cohen fan, and writer, not journalist, conned my way into meeting Cohen by getting a commission to interview him for a rock ma

Joan Baez 'Don't Talk About Dylan and We'll Get On Fine."

It's been. more than thirty years since I did this phone interview with Joan Baez. I'm reposting it because of the release of the movie A Complete Unknown. I'd prefer to

Boy George. "I always fancied Larrry Mullen Jr." A fun exchange with Joe Jackson

Boy George telling me to tell Bono that if he still hadn't found what he was looking for, he should look behind the drum kit, was just a quip. But the quote made it aroun

Tommy Tiernan. "I am a dour, bearded, penitent Russian Monk."

Tommy Tiernan is now an interviewer who aspires to do in-depth interviews on TV. I commend his aspiration. Here is part of an in-depth interview he did with me.  Am I k

Richard Harris tells Joe Jackson about recording Macarthur Park

Imagine falling love with a song when you are 16, the, later in life meeting the guy who sang it and who asks yo uto write his life story! This is a tiny section from the