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Michael David Rosenberg, the voice and prolific songwriter behind Passenger shares just where he's at. With a brand new album, teasing the top of the UK album charts and 12 more albums to reflect upon, this 13-minute peak inside his world was a privilege and joyous from start to finish.  #passenger, #davidrosenberg, #gallorecordcompany, #royalalberthalllondon

Captured on the eve of her debut South African promotional tour, in August 1997, this interview with Janet Jackson unpacks more than just The Velvet Rope . A very introspective album, “finding myself is where I find myself,” she declared. This time around, Janet was focusing on her R&B roots. She spoke to me about exposing her inner, sensual self. “If it’s too much, I apologise,” she confessed...

Laying the beast to rest, albeit only for five years. Big shoes to fill and a global audience to win over, Blaze Bayley rose to the occasion and spent five years actively evolving one of the most important and relevant British rock bands of its age. Eleven studio albums in, Virtual Eleven arrived in 1998, and I had the opportunity to speak to Bruce Dickenson lead-singer-replacement, Blaze Bayley....

Recorded in late 1997, I got the opportunity to speak to the jazz crossover legend Abdullah Ibrahim.    An interview, a mere three years into our young democracy, Abdullah lived through the thick of the apartheid mayhem, and here he runs his hands over the scars it left. He spoke frankly about his journey from leaving South Africa and establishing himself abroad, all of which was not eas...

Singer, songwriter, musician, actor, philanthropist and record producer, Josh Groban is all that you see, and some.  In this interview, captured weeks before the release of his ninth studio album, Harmony, I had the honour and privilege to spend 20 minutes with a man whose music and presence carries extraordinary weight.  Harmony was captured and curated pre and through the very worst of...

In this unedited cassette-recorded interview captured in May 2005, British composer, musician and lyricist, Jeff Wayne takes the listener on his 27-year journey with his classic and timeless The War of the Worlds score. What would Jeff Wayne have changed about his original 1978 The War of the World score? Listen here and enjoy more funny tales, working with Sir Richard Burton, and just how he crea...

In 2003 Jack and Megan White released their fourth White Stripes, Grammy Award-winning, album, Elephant. This is another of my candid, unedited telephonic interviews - this time with none other than the rarely interviewed Jack White himself.

I resurrected this unedited archive interview with the extraordinary Kylie Minogue from a cassette interview conducted on 21 January 1998.  Here, Kylie talks through her relationships with the late-great Michael Hutchence and Nick Cave and how she intended to stay relevant. Twenty-two years later, she's done just that, and some!