Rock's Backpages

Initially posted on Wednesday, 2 July 2008

Rock's Backpages is an online database of rock music writing, with material dating from the early 1960s to the present day.

The library of articles includes reviews, interviews and features, which are fully searchable and presented in full-text. The database also includes Mp3 audio files of original artist interviews, which are available for the first time. There are now twelve thousand articles on the site, featuring over two thousand artists with up to fifty new articles added each week.

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Rock's BackpagesRock's BackpagesShibboleth 2eduPersonScopedAffiliationYes

WAYFless URL: https://www.rocksbackpages.com/wayfless.asp?providerid=xxx
(where xxx is the entity ID of your organisation's IdP)

Also, users can use this WAYFless URL to jump straight to an article by appending "&articleid=" and the article number. So the following link would automatically take users to the Pogues:

  https://www.rocksbackpages.com/wayfless.asp?providerid=xxx&articleid=16277

Please note that WAYFless URLs cannot be guaranteed to remain unchanged over time.

This service is available for subscription to UK HE, FE & research councils through JISC Collections.