Soul Searching. The Backstory of The Joe Jackson Interviews. Episode 1.

This is a podcast for those people who love my interviews and those who hate them. That's why I call it Joe Jackson's Greatest Hits and Misses. I take my cue in this from the fact that I have been called as an interviewer - I elaborate on this at the start of the podcast - "the best" in print in Ireland and alternatively a "pretentious" and "boring b****x." It's all the same to me, frankly. Either way, I began to tell this backstory as a secondary thematic thread in my RTE Radio 1, series. The Joe Jackson Tapes Revisited, but there was only so far I could go in that series and on that radio station. So now, it is time for me to go full tilt on the telling of the tale of my thirty-plus years in the Irish media, working for RTE, The Sunday Independent, The Irish Times, and Hot Press. And it is time to tell the highly-detailed diary-based stories I never told about many among the 1,4000 celebrities I interviewed. 

 

Episode 1,  kicks off with what many people see as some of my screw-ups, with interviewees such as Andre Previn, Ken Russell, and Jerry Lee Lewis. Then I flashback to the first interview I did, which inspired me to become an interviewer - my 1985 interview with Leonard Cohen, which to one editor was a flop but to me was a transcendent experience. Enjoy.