Joe Jackson Journalist

11/04/2025

Wow! Insight into how Facebook would exploit depressed 13-17 years olds

07/04/2025

Bob Dylan and Albert Grossman, the "money shark", as Joan Baez called him, who Dylan chose to be his manager. Maybe he was saying, "Go electric Bob, tap into the teen market, it will make you rich."

06/04/2025

Nice to see my Harris boi back in the Kindle Top 100. Better still Richard would love being in any charts alongside his old friend Richard Burton and nemesis, Michael Caine. He once joked to me, "Caine will probably come and p**s on my grave to make sure I am dead!"

02/04/2025

Decimation Day in the USA

31/03/2025

Thanks to Helen Mirren, this tired subject is back in the news, but this is one of the first YouTube videos I made 12 years ago. Back in 1988, I put it to Gabriel that James Bond is a relic from the Cold War era, sexist, racist, imperialist. Gabriel had been offered the gig.

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Gabriel Byrne: The Joe Jackson Interviews Plus (Kindle EBook available from Amazon.UK and .com) contains this fascinating exchange which bewildered Pearce Br...

31/03/2025

I uploaded this a month ago and can't believe how passionate some fans still are about Boyzone. Nearly 13,000 views and still rising!

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 t...

29/03/2025

I found this circa 1994 clip in my archive. It's sad to watch now, if only because along with the likes of Jimmy McCarthy, we see Christy Dignam, in his prime, after winning a music award. Time is a thief, and it moves relentlessly. Live each moment. https://youtu.be/ZWiMZlY3Pc0?si=TH3oBxJtR4nlbzv-

I found this lovely clip of the late Christy Dignam in my archive. This clip was filmed the afternoon after an Irish Music Awards ceremony.

26/03/2025

An Irish politician accurately representing way too many politicians, worldwide!

26/03/2025

https://youtu.be/TUzW-bUhRYI?si=TcWDL0HfTA_XcCin

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See the messages Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sent before US strike: https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-presidency-news-03-26-25/index.html The A...

24/03/2025

I had every issue of the New Musical Express bound from 1964-1969. I am streamlining my collection, so it's time to let them go.

New Musical Express bound edition 1964 from journalist's collection | Music, Music Memorabilia, Artists/ Groups | eBay!

23/03/2025

https://www.ebay.ie/itm/187071954343

40 years old - the last of my bound copies of Hot Press

Journalist's bound collection of Hot Press magazine 1985 | Books, Comics & Magazines, Antiquarian & Collectable | eBay!

23/03/2025

What it was like to be an Elvis fan in 1968,1969 - his best era

Clippings from Elvis fan 1960s scrapbook (4) | Music, Music Memorabilia, Artists/ Groups | eBay!

23/03/2025

https://youtu.be/aaW3LgBi1v4?si=aMV5w_Va1A-k-37z

As I say in the intro to this YouTube video, made March 22, 2025, the week of the Trump dump of JFK assassination papers that still didn't tell us conclusive...

22/03/2025

https://youtu.be/y6qeEMrYx8k?si=V9TkKQiJA_p7sIjs

Byrne loved this interview at the time then later attacked me about it and others! He’s so Irish! But we’re cool now.

After reading a typescript of this interview in LA, Gabriel told me, "This is the first totally honest, soul-searching interview I ever did." He also added, ...

22/03/2025

The Trump dump of Kennedy assassination papers - a diversion, I think - still doesn't tell us, definitively, who killed Kennedy. I have been fascinated by the subject since I was a child. Circa 1990 I got to interview Anthony Summers, then Oliver Stone, and later again Sam Giancana Jnr. This is the first of a series, I hope. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-kennedy-assassination-1-anthony-summers-1990/id1520160566?i=1000700373126

19/03/2025

I took that picture - my first at a gig, used an Instamatic camera - and recorded the song. I am delighted that two years after i made this YoTube video it has been discovered by so many members of the face page I Need a Regular Dose of Leonard Cohen.

I always loved this song and was thrilled when Leonard, the first time I ever saw him in concert, said it was a song he loved and often sang for himself. I w...

18/03/2025

Putin fed his puppy a few crumbs today, that’s all.