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Author, journalist and music historian Harvey Kubernik has been actively engaged with Otherworld Cottage Industries since our launch in May, 2013. He wrote the Foreword to our first publication, Travis Edward Pike's Odd Tales and Wonders 1964 - 1974 A Decade of Performance, and then submitted his own book, It Was 50 Years Ago Today THE BEATLES Invade America and Hollywood to us for publication to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Beatles coming to the USA -- which fit in nicely with our DVD release of the 50th Anniversary Edition of Demo Derby, a short film that played across the country on more than 6,000 screens with the Beatles Hard Day's Night. Since then, Harvey had three more books published and numerous articles in magazines, contributing his first-hand insights in films and over the airwaves of the many movers and shakers in the film and music industries -- (including several interviews with writer, singer-songwriter and publisher, Travis Edward Pike). This page was created to help Harvey Kubernik's fans keep track of his schedule and accomplishments.


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Harvey Kubernik appeared at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on Thursday, October 5th to discuss the Martin Scorsese-directed documentary on The Band, "The Last Waltz." Coverage of this event can be read by Steven Gaydos in "Variety" magazine.Coverage of this event can be read by Steven Gaydos in "Variety" magazine.

Harvey Kubernik takes us on a journey describing the iconic legendary career of songwriter/record producer and entrepreneur Lou Adler in "Ugly Things" magazine. Read it Here!

In the September 29th "Music Connection" magazine, Harvey Kubernik examines a new book, "Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones" by author Elizabeth Winder from Hachette Books, and delivers a story that brings us closer to the action. Read all about it HERE!

In the September 27th edition of forgottenhits60s.blogspot Harvey Kubernik's reminds us about the landmark fim event from 1965, "The Big TNT Show," featuring host David McCallum, along with music acts Donovan, Ray Charles, the Byrds, Lovin' Spoonful, the Ronettes, Joan Baez and Bo Diddley.

Harvey Kubernik's tribute to the Association's songwriter/singer Terry Kirkman who passed away at age 83 can be read in "Music Connection" magazine. Here is a link to the post: Music Connection magazine.

Harvey Kubernik pens a memoir piece about attending The Band's farewell concert in San Francisco, "The Last Waltz" and posts an interview with Robbie Robertson about the event and the Martin Scorsese-directed movie for "Music Connection" magazine.

September 16: Harvey Kubernik has written the introduction to the Hardcover 300 page The Rolling Stones: Icons which ACC Art Books will publish on October 30, 2023 currently posted on Amazon at $75.00

On Thursday, September 21st, "Forgotten Hits" editor Kent Kotal praises the Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik book Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child"

This week of September 18th, BEST CLASSIC BANDS – CELEBRATING THE ARTISTS, MUSIC AND POP CULTURE OF THE CLASSIC ROCK ERA. REVIEWS spotlights Harvey Kubernik's interview with engineer Eddie Kramer and his career with Jimi Hendrix. Read the entire story on bestclassicbands.com.

On September 16: Harvey Kubernik has written the introduction to the Hardcover 300 page The Rolling Stones: Icons which ACC Art Books will publish on October 30, 2023 currently posted on Amazon at $75.00

Harvey Kubernik takes us on a journey describing the iconic legendary career of songwriter/record producer and entrepreneur Lou Adler in "Ugly Things" magazine. Read it Here!

Director/writer and actor Christopher M. Allport's "Emily or Oscar" full length feature film will premiere on Friday, September 20th as part of Hollywood Film Festival 2023 at Grauman’s TCL Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood. Harvey Kubernik served as an Associate Producer on the movie.

On September 16th Harvey and Kenneth are writing doing a book for 2024 publication by Insight Editions, Images That Rocked the World (The Music Photography of Ed Caraeff.

On September 16th Harvey Kubernik returned for his third visit of “Coast to Coast AM with host George Noory” a syndicated radio program heard by 4.5 million listeners.

Harvey Kubernik for "Tracking Angle" takes us on a deep expedition into the world of Motown and Marvin Gaye at https://trackingangle.com/features/marvin.

A 1975 interview Harvey Kubernik did with Billy Preston is featured the first week of September www.bestclassicbands.com. Billy Preston Interview: His Career and Touring with the Rolling Stones

Dig the Doors? In the September 1st issue of "Music Connection" magazine, Harvey Kubernik brings out the news of the Doors "Live at the Matrix" box set.

The August 31st posting of ForgottenHits60sblogspot. Thursday This And That,> remembers Elton John's August 1970 Troubadour Debut. Harvey Kubernik saw Elton at the Troubadour and writes a multi-voice story on the landmark event.

In the August 31st Best classic Bands salutes the 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones "Goat's Head Soup" album. The tribute essay is by Harvey Kubernik and includes his interviews with Keith Richards Bill Wyman & Others.

Harvey Kubernik announces the news of the upcoming Carlos Santana documentary in Music Connection" magazine and adds his 2017 interview with Santana.

A Johnny Cash and Harvey Kubernik 1975 Interview is spotlighted with 2023 news about an upcoming Cash book a Cash-centric tour experience, and Harvey's 2007 interview with Bob Johnston about Bob Dylan is now featured on cavehollywood.com.

Motown Records celebrated a 50th anniversary of Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" and touted Motown's first year in Los Angeles at the Grammy Museum on Wednesday August 23rd. Smokey Robinson, Jimmy Jam and Marvin Gaye's biographer David Ritz were on hand to discuss the label. Panel was moderated by UMe's Harry Weinger. Harvey Kubernik www.forgottenhits.com reported on the event when he and Smokey Robinson discussed "Tears of a Clown."

Issue # 122 of "Voodoo Child" is now out from the Jimi Hendrix Information Institute. Harvey Kubernik's interview with Kim Simmonds, founder of Savoy Brown, is a lead feature. Their interview is culled from a 2020 interview Harvey conducted with Kim that originally appeared in the Kubernik book "Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child." >

Harvey had the opportunity to speak about The Last Waltz with Robbie Robertson in 2002 and 2017. Read excerpts from those interviews at Robbie Robertson on The Band’s ‘The Last Waltz’: ‘The Whole Thing Just Snowballed’ | Best Classic Bands’.

A 1976 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with The Band's Robbie Robertson for "Crawdaddy" magazine is touted and featured on Rocksbackpages the archive of music journalism.

9 August 2023: Harvey Kubernik's 2017 interview with The Band's Robbie Robertson piece is now up on the "Music Connection" magazine website. Harvey interviewed the late musician three times between 1976-2017.

8 August 2023: When announcement arrived from Apple Corps Ltd., Capitol Records and UMe that several Giles Martin-produced special editions of the Beatles’ Revolver would be released on Oct. 28, 2022, author Harvey Kubernik gathered quotes from various interviews he’s conducted relating to the album and the time in which it was created. Read Kubernik's "Revolver and That '66 Vibe: Thoughts from George Harrison, Ravi Shankar and others" on bestclassicbands.com

Harvey Kubernik examines the Elvis Presley '68 Comeback Special for MusicConnection.

Harvey Kubernik's appreciatiom of comedian and social satirist Lenny Bruce now appears in "Ugly Things" magazine. Some Lenny memories and reflections from a new cast of characters Harvey assembled Here!

In late July 2023, Harvey Kubernik and music journalist Kirk Silsbee were interviewed by Clayton Trutor, Ph.D for his story on engineer/record producer Bones Howe that appears in Sarasota Magazine. Howe worked with everyone from Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Lou Adler, Jan & Dean, Johnny Rivers, the Mamas & the Papas, the Turtles, the Association, 5th Dimension to Tom Waits.

Mick Jagger turned age 80 on July 26th. "Music Connection" magazine asked Harvey Kubernik to tout one of his favorite recordings by the Rolling Stones, and he chose "Gimme Shelter." Read of Harvey's tribute to the frontman and this landmark recording HERE!

This week on www,bestclassic bands.com, Harvey Kubernik's interviews with founding members of the Byrds, Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman and David Crosby is the feature lead story.

The July 12th edition of www.forgottenhits.com displayed Kubernik's essay on his discovery of the Doors in late 1966 and news on the upcoming 5 LP set of the Doors' "Live At The Matrix 1967: The Original Masters" that will be issued in September. Harvey's 2007 interview with Doors' drummer John Densmore and his 2018 dialogue with Marty Balin of the Jefferson Airplane, who booked the landmark Matrix music venue, are displayed.

Harvey Kubernik and other deejays and music fans joined in a tribute on www.forgottenhits.com. to the legendary deejay, Dick Biondi, who passed away at age 90 over the week.

A Harvey Kubernik interview with Andrew Loog Oldham from the Kubernik book "The Story of The Band" was partially excerpted in Jordan Potter's story on Oldham in the July 2023 issue of "Far Out" magazine. Article is titled "How Bob Dylan inspired Andrew Loog OLdham to managed The Rolling Stones." Read it HERE!

Harvey Kubernik discusses Frank Zappa with former bandmates Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman aka Flo & Eddie in the new "Music Connection" magazine. UMe has just issued a new Zappa album "Funky Nothingness." https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-kaylan-volman-on-the-frank-zappa-years/.

There's a new box set of Stax Records songwriting demos now out and Harvey Kubernik examines the multi-disc set and implements his 2007 interviews with Stax mainstays Steve Cropper and Wayne Jackson. Read the action at https://bestclassicbands.com.

Harvey Kubernik in "Music Connection" magazine writes about Steely Dan's 2023 vinyl LP reissue of "Countdown to Ecstasy" and publishes a 1999 interview with Steely Dan co-founder, Walter Becker. Here's a link. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-monterey-pop-festival-56th-anniversary.

The June 15th www.forgottenhits.com daily has Harvey Kubernik reflections on "The Ed Sullivan Show" soon to celebrate a 75th anniversary. SOFA and UMe has made the landmark Sullivan-hosted performances available digitally. Harvey interviews SOFA Entertainment's Andrew Solt, Mary Wilson of the Supremes, David Ruffin of the Temptations, Motown Records executive Barney Ales and 1963-1967 Rolling Stones' record producer/manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, along with writer Gary Pig Gold. The Ed Sullivan Show - 75th Anniversary (Part 2).

This week on bestclassicbands.com Harvey Kubernik remembers the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival celebrating a 56th Anniversary. Interviews with Lou Adler D.A.Pennebaker, Clive Davis, Jac Holzman Jann Wenner, Paul Kantner, and Michelle Phillips.

On Saturday, June 10th: Harvey's fans may want to follow up on the June 2nd, Coast-to Coast AM with George Noory Radio Show in which Harvey touts Ed Sullivan. https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2023-06-02-show.

Also on Friday, June 9th: HBO-TV is airing a documentary on Donna Summers this year. Harvey Kubernik spoke with her percussionist and songwriter Bob Conti about her work on stage and in the studio as well as his collaborations with Jose Feliciano and their recent recordings on the Harmony label for "Music Connection" magazine. Read it at https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-bob-conti-on-donna-summer-and-jose-feliciano.

Friday, June 9th: Singer/songwriter and producer Julian Shah-Tayler has just issued "Forget That I'm 50," his tribute album to David Bowie's "Aladdin Sane." Harvey Kubernik interviews Shah-Tayler about his album on the Harmony Records label for Music Connecion magazine. https://trackingangle.com/features/julian-shah-tayler-s-forget-that-i-m-50-re-imagines-aladdin-sane-and-it-works.

Read harvey Kubernik's intervew with Mod Squad star Peggy Lipton on the Monterey International Pop Festival at BESTCLASSICBANDS.COM

On May 30th, the Neil Young-centric website Thrasher's Wheat posted Harvey Kubernik's interview with Rick Rosas, former Young and Buffalo Springfield bassist and his East Los Angeles musical link to Buffalo Springfield at "http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2023/05/interview-rick-rosas-on-buffalo.html"

A special entire edition of the Tuesday, May 30th www.forgottenhits.com pop music web site is devoted to Harvey Kubernik's interviews with Al Kooper the last quarter of a century. Harvey and Al discuss Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, The Band, Jackie Wilson, and Michael Bloomfield. Kooper has been selected for a "musical excellence award" at the 2023 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Noveber 3rd at the Barclays Center in his birthplace of Brooklyn, New York.

Harvey Kubernik is the latest guest on Bob Lefsetz's Podcast. Their two hour interview was broadcast on Bob Lefsetz's Podcast the last week of May. Lefsetz touted the episode. "Harvey Kubernik is a music history savant who's written numerous books on such topics as Laurel Canyon, the Beatles and the Summer of Love. He has dedicated his entire life to rock and roll, and his memory is extraordinary. Harvey experienced it all firsthand, this is his story."

Author, music historian and documentarian Harvey Kubernik made his 3rd visit to "Coast to Coast AM with host George Noory" on Friday night, June 2nd, 10:00 pm (PST). The program is syndicated to hundreds of radio stations in the U.S. and Canada by Premiere Networks. 4.5 million listeners. America's # 1 Audio Company. Reaching 9 out of 10 Americans Every Month. Harvey will be discussing music documentaries, classic rock, a few of his 20 books, Tina Turner, music streaming and current state of concert business.

A 1975 interview Harvey Kubernik did with Tina Turner for the now defunct "Melody Maker" was spotlighted on www.bestclassicbands.com.

Harvey Kubernik's 1974-2004 interviews with Ray Manzarek of The Doors are featured May and June on bestclassicbands.com. See it at https://bestclassicbands.com/ray-manzarek-interview-doors-12-18-199/.

On May 16, 1966, 57 years ago today, The Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" album was released. Harvey Kubernik remembers the 50th Anniversary for www.forgottenhits.com with his archive interview with Brian Wilson that initially was published in "Vintage Rock."

The Bob Dylan/Bob Johnston "Nashville Skyline" album collaboration is highlighted this week at https://bestclassicbands.com.

The musical legacy of East Los Angeles is explored by Harvey Kubernik in "Ugly Things" magazine in a 8,000 word multi-voice article "Uno Mundo [It Came from East Los Angeles]." Read it now on Ugly Things magazine.

During the week of May 14th, www.bestclassicbands.com exhibits two Harvey Kubernik interviews: One with graphic artist John Van Hamersveld reflecting on his album cover for the Rolling Stones' "Exile on Main Street." The popular site also posts Harvey's 1977 interview with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Bob Seger.

Guitarist Link Wray has just been elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His "Rumble" recording is a seminal audio moment in music history. Harvey Kubernik praises Wray and reminds us about the music dociumentary "Rumble" in Music Connection magazine.

Harvey Kubernik Interviews with Rock and Roll Hall Inductee Al Kooper is the feature story this week on www.bestclassicbands.com. Kubernik and Kooper discuss Bob Dylan, The Band, The Rolling Stones, and the "Super Session" album

This week on Music Connection magazine, Harvey Kubernik interviews Marshall Chess of Chess Records about the label's legendary recording artists and the August digital release of the blues documentary "Born in Chicago." https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-marshall-chess-on-the-legacy-of-chess-records.

And Mike Stax at Ugly Things magazine posted Harvey's appreciation of the rock band Spirit. https://ugly-things.com/spirit-new-book-and-an-appreciation.

And everyone at Kubernik's Korner and Otherworld Cottage Industries was delighted by Kent Kotal’s Forgottenhits60s.blogspot article recommending Harvey’ Kubernik’s Docs That Rock, Music That Matters to fans seeking the best in pop music documentary films, to check out Harvey Kubernik’s Docs That Rock!

BREAKING NEWS! Mark Volman, who with Howard Kaylan were the backbone of the popular and influential music group of the sixties, the Turtles, has just announced his autobiography. The memoir chronicles his musical adventures. Happy Forever: My Musical Adventures With The Turtles, Frank Zappa, T. Rex, Flo & Eddie, and More, with forewords by Alice Cooper and Chris Hillman, is scheduled for publication on June 20, 2023, via Jawbone Press. Volman collaborated with author John Cody. Harvey Kubernik is an interview subject, alongside members of the Doors, the Monkees, the Byrds, the E Street Band and many more; producers Tony Visconti, Bob Ezrin, and Hal Willner; voice actors from The Simpsons and the Firesign Theatre; and key figures from the worlds of radio, animation and academia.

Harvey Kubernik touts the joys of Sally Steven's music memoir, "I SANG THAT" in a recent story in Music Connection magazine at https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-sally-stevens-memoir-i-sang-that/.

Harvey Kubernik writes about a new book about The Rolling Stones "Exile on Main Street" album for Best Classic Bands | Classic Rock News, Features at https://bestclassicbands.com

Harvey Kubernik reminds us about David Bowie's album "Aladdin Sane" which celebrates a 50th anniversary in April. His story on this landmark endeavor is now up on the Ugly Things magazine website at https://ugly-things.com/david-bowies-aladdin-sane-turns-50/.

This week on the Cave Hollywood website is a 14,000 word multi-voice narrative by Harvey Kubernik and Friends on Leon Russell. https://cavehollywood.com.

Best Classic Bands | Classic Rock News, Features during March spotlights Harvey Kubernik's story and interviews about the music documentary "Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World" featuring John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band and The Doors, which has just acquired distribution for North America with Shout! Studios. www.bestclassicbands.com.

Harvey Kubernik's interview with musician Bobby Whitlock about drummer Jim Gordon and their band Derek and the Dominoes is quoted in the Classic Rock News and Features section of the Thursday, March 16th edition of www.bestclassicbands.com

Harvey Kubernik in "Ugly Things" magazine brings us into Reggae music and chronicles the landmark movie and soundtrack album The Harder They Come.

The March 8th edition of the Forgotten Hits website showcases Harvey Kubernik's interview with Al Kooper, the founder of Blood, Sweat & Tears. http://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com

There's a new biography out on Leon Russell. Harvey Kubernik checks it out and talks to former musical associates of Leon for "Music Connection" magazine. Here is a link to the post: musicconnection.com/leon-russell-the-master-of-space-and-times-journey-through-rock-roll-history/

Harvey Kubernik's multi-voice narrative on Johnny Cash and his hit single "A Boy Named Sue" is featured in the March 1st edition of bestclassicbands.com. https://bestclassicbands.com. THE SCENE: HOW THE SONG CAME TO BE Johnny Cash’s ‘A Boy Named Sue’: The Story Behind the Song.

The February 27th edition of https://bestclassicbands.com features Harvey Kubernik's interview with Nancy Sinatra discussing her brilliant collaborator Lee Hazelwood.

In honor of songwriter/composer Burt Bacharach's passing in February 2023, "Music Connection" magazine exhibits a 1998 interview Harvey Kubernik did with Bacharach and Elvis Costello upon the release of their album "Painted By Memory." View it at https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-a-chat-with-bacharach-costello/.

During the week of February 11th-16th, www.bestclassicbands.com displays two Harvey Kubernik articles in The Scene: The Classic Rock Legacy. The 1969 Toronto Rock ’n’ Roll Revival: When John Lennon Broke Out of the Beatles which chronicles the 1969 Toronto Canada, now the subject of a 2023 documentary "Revival69 The Concert That Rocked The World." Harvey's 1974-2010 interviews with Ray Manzarek of the Doors are also available to read in Ray Manzarek on The Doors’ 6 Studio Albums: The ‘Lost’ Interviews.

The 2022 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with David Crosby is now posted on the Neil Young-themed website Thrasher's Wheat.org.

Best Classic Bands article Celebratig the Artists, Music and Pop Culture of the Classic Rook Era features an interview with Jafferson's Airplane/Starship's Marty Balin on the Heaven That Was'67, in which the late vocalist spoke about the early days of the band he co-ffounded, and much more. Read it at bestclassicbands.com.

During January 2023, Harvey Kubernik, photographer Henry Diltz and authors Eddie Fiegel and Barney Hoskyns were filmed by French director France Swimberge for a Mamas and Papas documentary for the European arts television channel Arte. Kubernik also serves as the film’s consultant that focuses on the group's popular recording catalog, now distributed by the UMe.

Leon Russell will be the subject of an upcoming biography. Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time’s Journey Through Rock & Roll History, from author and fellow musician Bill Janovitz that will be published on March 14, 2023, via Hachette Books. Archive interviews Harvey Kubernik initially conducted in 1988 with Jack Nitzsche in Goldmine magazine, and George Harrison from 1997 for Music Connection magazine are utilized in the text. Kubernik's book Turn Up The Radio! Pop, Rock and Roll in Los Angeles 1956-1972 is cited in the Bibliography.

Following the passing of Jeff Beck, Shindig! magazine asked Harvey Kubernik to write a tribute to the guitar hero. www.Shindig-magazine.com posts his appreciation Farewell Jeff Beck.

In February the landmark "Wattstax" concert from 1972 will be celebrated with a 6 CD and 10 LP Set from Stax/Craft Recordings. Harvey Kubernik's 2006 interview with director Mel Stuart who helmed the acclaimed movie of the same title that was theatrically released in 1973 is displayed in "Music Connection" magazine this week. musicconnection.com/kubernik-wattstax-sould-out.

This week on www.bestclassicbands.com Harvey Kubernik's 1976 interview with concert promoter Bill Graham is spotlighted.

In Music Connection magazine, Harvey Kubernik reminds us about the landmark Wattsstax concert in 1972 and touts the show's upcoming box set soundtrack live recordings due in February.

Harvey Kubernik examines the just released box set of Elvis Presley 1972 live recordings like no one else can do. Check out his multi-voice narrative in Ugly Things magazine.

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The January/February 2023 issue of Record Collector News magazine is now out with a Harvey Kubernik cover story on Elvis Presley about his 1972 concert recordings just issued in a box set from the Sony/Legacy label.

Author and Music Historian Harvey Kubernik Returns as Guest Interview on Coast to Coast AM with Host George Noory, Friday, December 30, 2022, 10:00 pm - Midnight (PST); The Popularity of Fifties and Sixties Recordings, Documentaries Discussion and Musician Passings in 2022

Harvey Kubernik examines Marc Meyers' new book, "Anatomy of 55 More Songs" for Music Connection" magazine.

On December 27, 1967, Columbia Records released the Bob Johnston-produced Bob Dylan long-player John Wesley Harding. By January ’68 it was one of the most tracked albums on countless FM radio stations in America and all over the world. It was Dylan’s eighth studio album. During 1968, it eventually reached #2 on the US record charts and a #1 slot in the UK charts. Read the entire Harvey Kubernik article at https://bestclassicbands.com.

Harvey Kubernik celebrates the 55th anniversary of the release of Bob Dylan’s album "John Wesley Harding" feature article on the Best Classic Bands website that examines the artists, music and pop culture of the classic rock era. https://bestclassicbands.com.

Journalist David Hinckley, formerly with "The New York Post" in his "Medium" news outlet salutes the Rascals' Dino Danelli and quotes Harvey Kubernik in his passionate tribute to the fallen drummer. Read it HERE.

A December multi-voice narrative story on the debut Buffalo Springfield album by Harvey Kubernik is now out in "Music Connection" magazine and can be read at www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-buffalo-springfield-debut-lp-released-december-1966,

In the December 16th edition of www.bestclassicbands.com, a 2012 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with Dino Danelli, the much-loved drummer of the Rascals, who passed away on Dec. 13, 2022, at age 78 is featured. Read the Complete Interview and view clips.

The acclaimed "Bob Marley One Love Exhibit" will open in Hollywood in January 2023. Harvey Kubernik touts the event and interviews Marley Biographer Roger Steffens about his book on Marley, "So Many Things to Say" for "Music Connection" magazine www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-bob-marley-one-love-experience.

In the December 16th edition of www.bestclassicbands.com, a 2012 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with Dino Danelli, the much-loved drummer of the Rascals, who passed away on Dec. 13, 2022, at age 78 is featured. Read the Complete Interview and view clips at https://bestclassicbands.com.

The December 13th www.bestclasssicbands.com headlines Harvey Kubernik's interview with Love co-founder Johnny Echols who discusses Love's classic album Forever Changes.

More movie news! Harvey Kubernik is the film consultant for the Toronto Premiere Theatrical screening of REVIVAL69: THE CONCERT THAT ROCKED THE WORLD, that will take place at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, 506 Bloor Street West, Saturday, December 17th at 7:30PM. Director Ron Chapman will be there. Also scheduled is a Q and A following the film with Chapman, John Brower (festival promoter), Geddy Lee (Rush) and Robby Krieger (The Doors). Link to the Entertainment Tonight exclusive where you can see the trailer of the film. Harvey is the film consultant on this documentary and an interview subject, along with interviewees Klaus Voormann, Alice Cooper, Geddy Lee of Rush, the Doors' Robby Krieger, concert attendee Rodney Bingenheimer and promoter John Brower. Oscar-winning filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus serve as executive producers. D.A. Pennebaker’s footage of Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Gene Vincent backed by the Alice Cooper group, and the Plastic Ono Band debut is stellar.

Harvey Kubernik is the Associate Producer on writer/director Christopher M. Allport's award winning narrative feature film, Emily or Oscar which just won the BEST PRODUCER Award at the Japan International Film Festival, Best Hollywood Feature Film at the Author Film Festival in Buenos Aires, and is now and Official Selection at the Melbourne Independent Film Festival, the International Film Festival of The Hague, the Palm Springs International Film Awards, and the Culver City Film Festival. In December there was a sold-out screening, with Red Carpet, of Emily or Oscar at the Cinemark XD Theater at Howard Hughes Los Angeles.

The December 1st edition of www.bestclassicbands.com touts a Harvey Kubernik 2021 interview with drummer/author John Densmore of The Doors. View it HERE.

A 1976 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with Freetwood Mac co-founders Mick Fleetwood and John McVie is also featured the first week of December 2022 on www.bestclassicbands.com.

Goldmine magazine reported the passing of singer/songwriter Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac. Co-founder Mick Fleetwood commented on her for the periodical, and Harvey Kubernik offered "I will always remember her kindness in my handful of encounters with her, initially at recording sessions for "Rumours" at Larabee studios in Hollywood, then record shopping with her and beau Dennis Wilson at Tower Records, and even at my father's office, who was a stock broker. She really laughed when I said 'If I knew you were on Wilshire and La Cienega talking financial investments, I would have brought my Chicken Shack LP to autograph!' As a weekly columnist for UK's Melody Maker," she was always delighted to discuss UK music and we made efforts to find a great Indian restaurant in town. Thankfully, George Harrison and Ravi Shankar recommended one literally next door to Doug Weston's Troubadour."

The November and December 2022 issue of Record Collector News magazine is out featuring Harvey Kubernik's multi-voice cover story on the Beatles' Revolver album.

Buffalo Springfield Again celebrates a 55th anniversary in 2022. Harvey Kubernik brings us the back story of this epic album in bestclassicbands.com.

Mike Stax publisher of "Ugly Things" is now hosting the "Ugly Things" podcast produced by James Archer. Harvey Kubernik was a guest during November. Check out his appearance at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ugly-things-podcast/id1639423065.

Jack Kerouac's two poetry LP's will be reissued in December by the Real Gone record label and Harvey Kubernik writes a 7,000 word essay about Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and the Beat Generation for "Ugly Things" magazine. ugly-things.com/jack-kerouac-poetry-for-the-beat-generation-blues-and-haikus

A new Jimi Hendrix live Album and a new Hendrix book are examined by Harvey Kubernik in "Music Connection" magazine.

The Thursday, November 11th edition of www.forgottenhits.com spotlighted Harvey Kubernik's story on Chess Records, the upcoming "Born in Chicago" Documentary, and interview with Marshall Chess.

On the popular Neil Young-themed website, Thrasherswheat.org, Harvey Kubernik takes us into Young's "Harvest" in a multi-Voice Narrative with the engineers and performers on this epic album which celebrates a 50th edition in December.www.neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2022/11/neil-youngs-harvest-multi-voice.html.

1975 and 1999 interviews Harvey Kubernik conducted with Steely Dan founders Donald Fagen and Walter Becker is now up on the Tracking.Angle.com website. Take the expedition at www.trackingangle.com/features/vintage-walter-becker-donald-fagen-interviews-still-hold-interest.

Harvey Kubernik examines and touts Bob Dylan's new book "The Philosophy of Modern Song" in "Music Connection" magazine. Click to see the entire article at https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-on-bob-dylans-new-book/.

The album Johnny Cash at the Carousel Ballroom April 24, 1968 was recently issued by Bear's Sonic Journal on CD. Harvey Kubernik interviewed Cash in 1975 for the now defunct Melody Maker and that interview is spotlighted as the Classic Rock Feature on www.bestclassicbands.com.

Harvey also reported on Bob Dylan's new book in a Classic Rock Feature at Click to see the entire article at https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-on-bob-dylans-new-book/.

On October 26th bestclassicbands.com in its THE SCENE: THE CLASSIC ROCK LEGACY ran Harvy Kubernik's story on THE T.A.M.I. SHOW: The Classic 1964 Concert Film That Pitted James Brown vs the Rolling Stones

On October 23rd www.forgottenhits.com ran Harvey Kubernik's story on the new Bob Dylan book, The Philosophy of Modern Song.

On October 14th Rock's Backpages.com ran a Harvey Kubernik feature on deejay Art Laboe. The subscription site is the online library of pop writing.

Sunday, October 2nd: Neil Young's Thrasher's Wheat.org website posted Harvey Kubernik's essay on Buffalo Springfield and their "For What it's Worth" recording just covered by STEVIE Nicks, q.v. at http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2022/10/stevie-nicks-cover-of-buffalo.html.

Ugly Things magazine on September 28th invited Harvey Kubernik to examine the history of influential Chess Records. The results may be read at https://ugly-things.com/marshall-chess-on-the-legacy-of-chess-records.

September 27th, editor Jeff Tamarkin of www.bestclassicbands.com offered a wonderful tribute to singer/songwriter Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane who died on this day a few years ago. This same website in 2022 ran Harvey Kubernik'sinterview with Marty Balin, first published in cavehollywood.com/marty-balin. Kubernik provided earlier glimpses into Jefferson Airplane for the Universal Music Enterprises website that appeared on https://www.udiscovermusic.com/indepth-features.

With the recent announcement from Apple Corps Ltd., Capital Records and UMe that several Giles Martin-produced special editions of the Beatles' Revolver would be released on October 28, 2022, author Harvey Kubernik gathered quotes from various interviews he'd conducted relating to the album and the time in which it was released. Read them at Revolver and That '66 Vibe: Thoughts from George Harrison, Ravi Shankar & Others.

September 21st: Best Classic Bands displayed a Kubernik interview with Eddie Kramer, engineer of countless Jimi Hendrix recordings. Jimi Hendrix Engineer Eddie Kramer Remembers: "He Changed My Life."

In mid-September bestclassicbands.com featured a Harvey Kubernik story on Leonard Cohen in THE SCENE: HOW THE SONG CAME TO BE titled Leonard Cohen: New Doc & LP Shine a Light on the Origin of "Hallelujah."

Harvey Kubernik writes extensively about The Byrds and provides excerpts from interviews he conducted with Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman and David Crosby now available in September on bestclassicbands.com.

This week on best classicbands.com Harvey Kubernik and Billy Preston is up. They discuss George Harrison, The Concert for Bangladesh, the Rolling Stones and his solo career.

The August 31st edition of Amanda Morck-hosted "My Rock Moment" Apple podcastfeatured an hour discussion with Harvey Kubernik. The duo discussed Harvey's music journalism career, his books and favorite career moments. Take a listen when you can.

BMG has just published a new coffee table photo book on The Byrds 1964-1967. Harvey Kubernik interviews with founding memebers Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman and David Crosby about the band are now featured in Shindig! magazine. https://www.shindig-magazine.com/?p=5701.

ABKCO, the music and film company, has made available the first authorized online music video of the Rolling Stones' Jumpin' Jack Flash. Harvey Kubernik talks to the director of this groundbreaking music and film merger for Music Connection magazine. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-the-rolling-stones-jumpin-jack-flash-restored-in-4k.

Today (August 18, 2022) on www.bestclassicbands.com Harvey Kubernik's article in Best Classic Bands touts "The Making of Al Green and the Hi Records Sound and interviews his legendary record producer Willie Mitchell.

Harvey Kubernik chronicles two seminal Buffalo Springfield albums: Last Time Around and Buffalo Springfield Again on the Tuesday, August 16th, 2022 website neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org.

Best Classic Bands - Celebrating the artists, music and pop culture of the classic rock era features Harvey Kubernik's article in The Scene: How the song came to be Al Kooper on Recording "You Can't Always Get What You Want" with the Stones. On September 2nd, this music and pop culure of the classic rock era also exhibited Harvvey's interview with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Bill Preston, in which they discussed Preston's career and touring with the Rolling Stones.

A 10,000 word expanded exploration by Harvey Kubernik on the Stax Records label and the upcoming HBO Docu-Series on the company is now featured in "Ugly Things" magazine. http://ugly-things.com/stax-records-hbo-multi-part-docu-series-in-production.

HBO has just announced a Stax Records multi-part docu-series and Harvey Kubernik reminds us about the sonic and cultural heritage of the iconic company and their catalogue of recording artists in Music Connection Magazine. here is a link to the post: https://musicconnection.com/Kubernik-HBO-announces-Stax-Records-Docu-Series.

On August 12, 2022 in www.forgottenhits.com ran an interview Harvey conducted with Motown founder Berry Gordi. Jr. about the passing of songwriter/producer Lamont Dozier.

Lamont Dozier, songwriter/record producer, an inductee in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the immortal team of Holland-Dozier-Holland as architects of the Motown Records sound passed away at age 81. The website Showbiz 411 in their tribute to Dozier included portions of an interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with Mary Wilson of the Supremes in 2002. You can read it at Diana Ross Remembers Lamont Dozier

The August 8, 2022 edition of The Telegraph, a daily UK newspaper, cited and quoted a Harvey Kubernik interview with music business veteran Russ Regan about working with Mo Ostin and Frank Sinatra in their obituary Mo Ostin, Music Mogul Head of Warner Records.

In Variety magazine's report and obituary Olivia Newton-John Dead: "Grease" Actress and Singer was 73, Olivia Newton-John Dead: "Grease" Actress and Singer was 73," a Harvey Kubernik interview with Russ Regan, a former UNI/MCA Records executive who signed Newton-John to the label in 1971, is cited and quoted in the tribute by staffer Chris Morris.

Author and music journalist Joel Selvin is writing a biography about drummer/percussionist Jim Gordon. Harvey Kubernik has supplied interview contacts and research for the book.

Harvey Kubernik salutes the late Bob Rafelson, filmmaker, and co-producer of "The Monkees" television series this week in the UK-based "Shindig!" magazine. https://www.shindig-magazine.com/?p=5582.

Excerpts from Harvey Kubernik's 2021 essay "Charles Bukowski At 100," that was initially published in Music Connection magazine and in 2022 in Beat Scene magazine, will be utilized in an upcoming biography on writer/poet Bukowski written by Abel Debritto to be published by Seattle, Washington-based Chatwin Books.

Harvey Kubernik's 2014 interview with singer and songwriter Marty Balin, founder of Jefferson Airplane, hitmaker with Jefferson Starship, and well-received solo performer, is now up on www.bestclassicbands.com.

Harvey Kubernik in the July 21, 2022 Forgotten Hits website examines the Brian Wilson and Phil Spector recording relationship. Harvey's 1977 interviews with Wilson, Spector, Gold Star recording studio engineers Stan Ross and Larry Levine, along with "Wrecking Crew" keyboardist/arranger Don Randi about the Wilson and Spector sonic delights can be read at http://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com.

David Chatfield, artist manager, attorney, musician, record producer and author is the subject of a Q. and A. with Harvey Kubernik for the July 21, 2021 "Music Connection" magazine. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-qa-with-david-chatfield/.

The summer 2022 issue of Beat Scene magazine, Number 104, features Harvey Kubernik's multi-page memoir cover story on writer/poet/novelist Charles Bukowski, "Charles Bukowski At 100 Years Old." Harvey recalls his encounters with the man.

Harvey Kubernik's 1976 interview with concert and music promoter Bill Graham that originally appeared in the now defunct UK music weekly "Melody Maker" has just been displayed on the July 20th www.bestclassicbands.com under the headline "Bill Graham on the Rock 'n' Roll Revolution."

The July 16th edition of www.bestclassicbands.com features Harvey Kubernik's 1976 and 2014 interviews with Carlos Santana discussing his musical career.

Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik's 2014 book, A Perfect Haze: The Illustrated History of the Monterey International Pop Festival is cited in the Notes section in the just published book, Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles. The stylish, wild story of the marriage of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward—a tale of love, art, Hollywood, and heartbreak written by Mark Rozzo. Published by HarperCollins on their ECCO imprint.

If you dig Elvis Presley, and might have seen the new Presley biopic "ELVIS," you might enjoy Harvey Kubernik's interview with legendary engineer/record producer Bones Howe who worked with Elvis in the fifties in Hollywood and later collaborated with director and co-producer Steve Binder on The Elvis '68 Comeback Special, a Presley star-turn moment portrayed in "ELVIS." https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-bones-howe-on-elvis/

The July 5, 2022 www.bestclassicbands.com exhibited Harvey Kubernik's 1995 interview with songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller Stoller on Elvis Presley and the Beatles.

Music Connection magazine and Harvey Kubernik last month celebrated the 55th anniversary of the Monterey International Pop Fesitval. Harvey's multi-narrative reflections on the seminal pop culture event can be read at https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-monterey-pop-festival-55th-anniversary/.

The June 26th,2022 www.forgottenhits.com Sunday Comments section includes Harvey Kubernik's story on former "Rolling Stone" publisher Jann Wenner's autobiography along with Harvey's 2012 Interview with Wenner. Jerry Garcia, Paul Kantner, Marty Balin, Grave Slick, Jerry Garcia, Dr. James Cushing and Ram Dass were also interviewed.

This week on Sports Stories with Denny Lennon, Harvey Kubernik reviews and details The Beatles In India DVD which contains his interviews with George Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Jim Keltner, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore, Robby Krieger, and Russ Titelman. http://SSDLwww.sportsstoriesdl.com.

The week of June 20th on www.bestclassicbands.com a 2007 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys is featured discussing several of the recordings on the just released collection from the Beach Boys "Feel Flows The Sunflower and Surf's Up Sessions 1969-1971."

We are pleased to announce that the critically acclaimed Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child book is displayed nationally with other titles in Barnes and Noble's acknowledgement of Juneteenth. June 19th is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating emancipation of enslaved African Americans.

The June 12th edition of www.bestclassicbands.com presented Harvey Kubernik's profile of Leonard Cohen, including Harvey's 1974 interview with Cohen from "Melody Maker." The lead story cites the upcoming Cohen documentary "Hallelujah."

On the June 9, 2022 www.bestclassicbands.com website, Harvey Kubernik touts the 55th anniversary of the landmark Monterey International Pop Festival. VIew the article at https://bestclassicbands.com/monterey-pop-festival-55th-anniversary-interviews-6-9-22/.

Harvey Kubernik examines the life of actor/photographer Dennis Hopper and revisits The Elvis Presley '68 Comeback Special at the Denny Lennon sports and pop culture website https://www.sportsstoriesdl.com.

In the June 3rd edition of bestclassicbands.com, Harvey Kubernik takes us on a deep dive on The Rolling Stones "Out of Time" song history. The band is performing the tune on their summer 2022 European tour. It's spotlighted at bestclassicbands.com/rolling-stones-out-of-time-6-3-22.

Want some cool music history data on the Byrds, Mamas & Papas, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix you've never read before? Find a few minutes and read Harvey Kubernik's interview with John York in "Music Connection" magazine. York was a member of the last incarnation of the Byrds during 1968-1969, and has been a professional musician for almost 60 years. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-an-evening-with-john-york-fundraiser/

In the Sunday, May 22nd edition of www.bestclassicbands.com, Harvey Kubernik interviewed author David Leaf about his revised and updated book "God Only Knows: The Story of Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys & the California Myth" that will be published this summer by Omnibus. There is also a link to an interview Harvey conducted with Brian Wilson.

In the May 20th edition of "Variety," reporter Chris Willman in his obituary/tribute to "Bob Neuwirth, Folk Figure of 1960s and Beyond, Influence on Bob Dylan and Co-Writer of Janis Joplin's ‘Mercedes Benz,’ Dies at 82," a Harvey Kubernik interview with John Cooke about Neuwirth's relationship with filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker is quoted. "Neuwirth’s association with Pennebaker continued over a period of decades. After being part of “Dont Look Back,” he was a key part of the making of “Monterey Pop” with Pennebaker and John Cooke."" Recalled Cooke in an interview with Harvey Kubernik, “Bob Neuwirth was sort of helping Penne to decide what was hip enough to shoot. They also worked together on the ill-fated followup documentary to 'Dont Look Back,' 'Eat the Document'.”

In the June-July issue of Goldmine Magazine, Lee Zimmerman reviewed Harvey Kubernik and Kenneth Kubernik JIMI HENDRIX: VOODOO CHILD (Union Square & Co. Hardcover, Genre: Music biography). "Granted, there have been countless volumes written about Jimi Hendrix, and rightfully so. Hendrix was a soaring star who burned out far too soon. By the time of his death at 27, he had already redefined the Boundaries of popular music and established himself as an absolute genius, one whose impact continues to be felt and revered more than a half century after his passing. The Kuberniks’ sumptuous manuscript shines further light on this legend. Courtesy of stories and anecdotes from those who witnessed his boldness and brilliance first hand. A collection of rare photos is intertwined with the narrative throughout—many of which have rarely if ever been seen. Taken in tandem, they bring Hendrix his full due and give a feel of both the man and the musician. A fascinating story told from a first-person perspective, Voodoo Child could be considered a definitive biography of the greatest guitar god of all time."

This summer Reaktion Books will publish author Alex Harvey's SONG NOIR Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles. Harvey Kubernik is thanked in the acknowledgements.

https://bestclassicbands.com on Sunday, May 15th, posted Harvey Kubernik's 2007 interview with record producer Bob Johnston. They discuss Johnston's Nashville studio sessions with Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. Visit the site's 'The Scene; The Classic Rock Legacy. The late record producer Bob Johnston’s résumé includes Cash's Folsom Prison and San Quentin live LPs, and the first three enduring albums of Leonard Cohen: Songs From A Room, Songs of Love and Hate and Love Songs. Johnston also produced Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde, Self Portrait, New Morning and John Wesley Harding.

The UMe record label has released half speed mastered vinyl of the first two albums from the Who. "My Generation" and "A Quick One." "Ugly Things" magazine asked Harvey Kubernik to reflect on these two ground-breaking LP's. Harvey's 1975 interview with Who drummer Keith Moon is part of the story, along with a 2017 interview Kubernik conducted with record producer Shel Talmy , who produced the "My Generation" album. Harvey's interviews with Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey of the Who about the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival which celebrates a 55th anniversary in June are included. Take a trip back to the sixties below at http://ugly-things.com/the-who-half-speed-mastered-albums-shel-talmy-pete-and-roger-on-the-monterey-pop-festival-and-more/

The May 11, 2020 www.bestclassicbands.com spotlights Harvey Kubernik on The Rolling Stones’ ‘Exile on Main Street’: Behind the Cover Art John Van Hamersveld Interview and movie trailer of the documentary on Van Hamersveld Harvey appears in.

Author Ken Emerson has published Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era out now in paperback published by Penguin Books. Harvey Kubernik's 1999 interviews with the songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller are cited in the text and also listed in the acknowledgements.

Slash of Guns 'N Roses comments on the new Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child book (Sterling/Barnes and Noble) by authors Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik: "Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child. It's one of the very best Hendrix books I've seen. A brilliant photographic expose' of the man throughout his brief career." Slash, a fellow Fairfax High School graduate along with his mother singer/fashion designer Ola Hudson, was interviewed in 2008 for Harvey's book Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon."

The Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood classic album Nancy & Lee has just been reissued by the Light in the Attic label. Harvey Kubernik interviewed Nancy for the April 25th edition of www.bestclassicbands.com.

David Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars turns 50 in June. Harvey Kubernik had just written a cover story on this epic Bowie album for the upcoming May/June issue of Record Collector News magazine. He's assembled a 4,000 word multi-voice narrative with reflections from Bowie's engineer/co-producer Ken Scott, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Andrew Loog Oldham, Oscar-winning filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker, author Robert Hilburn, Jem Aswad, a Senior Music editor at Variety,SiriusXM deejay Rodney Bingenheimer, photographer Heather Harris, longtime Bowie bandmember, Mike Garson, along with additional contributors.

The April 24th Sunday Comments in http://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/ acknowledged the 10th anniversary of the passing of television legend and pop culture icon Dick Clark and his influential American Bandstand TV series. The 22 year-old website displayed Harvey Kubernik's 1998 interview with Clark.

Harvey Kubernik's dear friend, photographer/visual artist Guy Webster left us in February 2019. Webster must have shot 300 album covers. His classic images from 1965-1970 grace the LP/CD covers of The Doors, the Rolling Stones, the Hollies, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Taj Mahal, Captain Beefheart, Tim Buckley, Carole King, the Mamas & the Papas, the Turtles, the Byrds, Love, Herb Alpert, the Beach Boys, Procul Harum, Brian Wilson, Spirit, and Simon & Garfunkel. In 2014 Harvey and his brother Kenneth wrote and helped assemble the coffee table book on Guy Webster, "Big Shots: Rock Legends and Hollywood," published by Insight Editions. The collection features many of his classic rock images. From April 21st-May 8th Guy Webster Uncovered: A Collection of Signed, Rare and Unseen Prints from the Album Cover Sessions will be held at the Rock Photography Museum Special Exhibition Space at 123 N. Artsakh Ave. in Glendale, Ca.

The new May 2022 issue of Shindig! magazine is now out. A Neil Young cover story examines his album Harvest. Harvey Kubernik's 2015 interview with Linda Ronstadt is the feature sidebar, along with Kubernik's archive interview with engineer/producer Eliot Mazer culled from Harvey's 2015 book Neil Young: Heart of Gold, published by Omnibus.

The musical heritage of East Los Angeles is explored and praised in Harvey Kubernik's article displayed in "Ugly Things" magazine about the upcoming April 13th event at the Grammy Museum in downtown Los Angeles, "The Sounds of East LA and the Chicano Movement" in conjunction with the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. Kubernik interviewed Little Willie G [Garcia] the lead singer of Thee Midniters, and musician/archivist, Mark Guerrero. http://ugly-things.com/the-sounds-of-east-la-and-the-chicano-movement-upcoming-grammy-museum-in-person-event.

Harvey Kubernik Interviewed the Rolling Stones' Sunset Sound Recording Studio engineers Gene Shiveley and Andy Johns about the albums "Beggars Banquet" and "Exile on Main Street." And you can read the results in "Ugly Things" magazine at http://ugly-things.com/confinement-and-escape-the-rolling-stones-exile-on-main-street-at-age-50-interview-with-engineer-andy-johns.

A 1976 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with Freetwood Mac co-founders Mick Fleetwood and John McVie is also featured the first week of December 2022 on www.bestclassicbands.com.

Harvey Kubernik brings us into the world of Frank Zappa and his year of 1971. Read all about it in Music Connection magazine.

Author Jan Alan Henderson in the March/May 2022 issue of "FilmFax The magazine of Unusual Film, Television & Retro Pop Culture" reviewed "Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child" by Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik." The focus here is the man and his music, as told by those he worked with, and his effect on present and past culture. A tall order to be sure! "Some of the voices in this oral history have been heard before, but what makes this volume exceptional is the collection of characters who have remained in the shadows and unfamiliar voices greatly adds to the depth of the man and his music. "Simply put, the Kubernik brothers have revealed the man. The previously unseen photographs alone are worth the price of admission."

On March 19th, www.bestclassicbands.com featured Harvey Kubernik's mid-seventies interview with Leonard Cohen as they discuss Cohen's "Songs of Love And Hate." https://bestclassicbands.com/leonard-cohen-songs-love-hate-review-3-19-211/.

Another rave review of the Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik "Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child" book has arrived from fearandloathingfanzine.com where editor Andy Pearson, hails it as "by far, the best book I have read about Hendrix. It’s the most enjoyable, the most convincing and the most informative, because it tells the story from the grass roots."

Harvey Kubernik was the interview subject for season one of the "Ugly Things Magazine Podcast" debuting late spring/early summer of 2022. Mike Stax the publisher and editor of the "Ugly Things" periodical, named after the music band the Pretty Things, conducted a career retrospective dialogue with Harvey covering a variety of subjects discussing his writing and journalism, his literary catalog, memorable rock concerts he attended during the 1960-1970 era, as well as the Kubernik 2021 book "Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child."

The March 18th Friday Flash on www.forgottenhits.com spotlighted 1974 and 2011 interviews Harvey Kubernik conducted with Mike Love of the Beach Boys.

Harvey Kubernik reminisces with sound engineer Andy Johns about his work on the Rolling Stones' epic "Exile on Main Street" album which will turn age 50 in June for www.bestclassicbands.com.

Musician Scarlet Rivera offers a testimonial on the Hendrix Kubernik expedition. "Attention Jimi Hendrix Lovers! The newly released book published in late November 2021 "Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child" by Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik is a Must have. You will be a kid in a candy shop delighting in psychedelic photos, posters and your very own backstage pass into the most in depth, insightful and well researched Hendrix book. Buy one for yourself and you will be hooked and tell everyone you know who is or will become a forever Jimi fan."

LIke the Monkees? Want to know about the group from the day they were cast in this influential television series? Harvey Kubernik provides a new and unique view from a 2014 interview he conducted with Micky Dolenz for "Ugly Things" magazine.The Monkees. From One Who Was There… | UglyThings Magazine.

In the Sunday, March 13th Best Classic Bands website, Harvey Kubernik brings us deep into the world of Gold Star Recording Studio and reminding us about Eddie Cochran.

Want to know one of the reasons why Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Eddie Cochran is on the cover of Bob Dylan's upcoming book? Harvey Kubernik explains the sonic magic of Cochran caught on tape at the landmark Gold Star Recording Studios for "Ugly Things" magazine. Eddie Cochran and Gold Star Recording Studio.

The March 9th 2022 edition of www.forgottenhits.com will be solely devoted to an interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with songwriter/record producer Felix Cavaliere, co-founder of the Rascals. Felix's autobiography " Memoir of a Rascal" is due on March 22nd. The Kubernik and Cavaliere dialogue is culled from a 2013 interview.

On Friday, March 4th at 7:20 AM Pacific Standard Time, music journalist/author Harvey Kubernik will be the feature interview subject on Spain's largest English speaking talk radio station Talk Radio Europe broadcasting to approximately half a million listeners on fixed frequency in Spain on Talk Radio Europe to around 120 countries worldwide via our website listen services and dedicated app. Harvey will be the Friday Drive Time guest presented by host Giles Brown. Harvey will be discussing the critically acclaimed book "Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child" written with his brother Kenneth, published by Sterling/Barnes and Noble in November 2021. Listen live at https://www.talkradioeurope.com/on-demand. This link will be active for seven days after the initial broadcast.

We've just seen Mike Stax's review of Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child by Harvey Kubernik and Kenneth Kubernik (Sterling, USA; 2021; 294 pages) q.v. at UT59 p28 Hendrix book review.pdf.

Another excellent review of Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik's Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child by two time Grammy Nominee Gordon Skene is posted at https://pastdaily.com.

Harvey Kubernik's 1997 interviews with Ravi Shankar and George Harrison initially published in HITS magazine were featured as a lead story on the February 25, 2022 edition of www.bestclassicbands.com. The duo discussed the epic 1971 "Concert for Bangladesh" event, the sitar, and the music of India.

Another rave review of the Kubernik endeavor Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child" can be read at https://boingboing.net/2022/02/22/great-stories. There are plenty of books about Jimi Hendrix so why did I like this new one? Rock journalists and brothers Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik have assembled a wonderful timeline-in-a-box full of photos, artifacts, and interviews that outline the event-packed last four years of Hendrix's life and career.

Harvey Kubernik's in mid-February conducted an extensive interview with writer/director Stephen DeBro discussing his sports and music documentary 18th & Grand: The Olympic Auditorium Story which will debut in the Southern California region the second week of March. Their dialogue serves as production notes for the movie and displayed on the website www.18thandgrand.com.

In the February 15th edition of "Music Connection" magazine, Harvey Kubernik interviews guitarist/songwriter Greg Franco of the independent band, Man's Body, who've just released their new album "A Set of Steak Knives." Here is a link to the post: https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-qa-with-mans-body/.

Harvey's interview with Micky Dolenz of the Monkees discussing the 1966-1968 career of the group will be the cover story in the March/April 2022 issue of Record Collector News magazine. Former Laurel Canyon resident Dolenz embarks on a tribute tour to his comrades this spring.

For the Sunday, February 13th www.bestclassicbands.com website, a 2010 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with Ray Manzarek of the Doors was displayed. The duo discussed the band's catalog. Harvey and seven other people are listed in the dedication page of Manzarek's autobiography, "Light My Fire: My Life with the Doors."

Harvey Kubernik takes us on a deep-dive on Neil Young's "Harvest" album that celebrates its 50th anniversary in February 2022. Harvey's multi-voice narrative is spotlighted on the Young-centric website Thrasher's Wheat - A Neil Young Archives

During the weekend of February 5th-6th two feature articles by Harvey Kubernik were posted on the www.bestclassicbands.com website: Harvey's interview with The Band's Robbie Robertson on the epic San Francisco concert event ''The Last Waltz," and his tribute to the day of February 3, 1959 where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper and their airplane pilot perished in an accident. Read Roger Steffens memories of a 1957 Buddy Holly New York City show and Chris Darrow witnessing Ritchie Valens in Southern California.

Director Martin Scorsese's music documentary, The Last Waltz, will be getting an official Criterion Collection 4K digital restoration and scheduled for a Blu-ray on March 29, 2022. Harvey Kubernik who attended the legendary concert by The Band in San Francisco examines the landmark event and implements 1976, 2004, and 2017 interviews he conducted with the group's Robbie Robertson for Music Connection magazine. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-the-band-the-last-waltz/

www.bestclassicbands.com spotlights Harvey Kubernik's interview with Micky Dolenz of the Monkees the week of January 16th-23rd. Read Harvey's 2014 dialogue with the voice of the Monkees who will be touring in 2022 along with Felix Cavaliere's Rascals.

THURSDAY, January 13,2022: Harvey Kubernik to guest on Coast To Coast AM with host George Noory on Thursday, January 13th; The Most Listened to Overnight Radio Show in the United States. ABOUT THE SHOW: Fallen Angels & Aliens/Rock Music & Jimi Hendrix. ABOUT THE HOST: George Noory. ABOUT THE GUEST: Harvey Kubernik.

Harvey currently has three articles in Music Connection. One about the 45th anniversary edition of the KISS Destroyer album (including his 1975 interview with band members for the now defunct Melody Maker). Another is a deep dive exploration of the just released Johnny Cash at the Carousel Ball Room, and in the third, Harvey lays out some news on the authorized Jerry Garcia biopic for Apple, including a 1976 interview Harvey conducted with the co-founder of the Grateful Dead. Harvey also speaks with filmmaker Alan Arkush about director Martin Scorsese and Grateful Dead historian and publicist Dennis McNally.

More Kudos for Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child. Richard Williams, one of England's legendary music journalists and an acclaimed author, has selected Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child for his Top Ten Books of the Year in his 2021 article Where Jimi Led. Author and music journalist Marc Myers listed Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child in his Decmber 7, 2021 JazzWax Holiday Gift Guide (Books) and closed his recommendation with "The only Hendrix biography that feels as if it's vibrating with feedback while you're reading." Want more? Author and musicologist Stephen K. Peeples conducted a 10,000 word interview with Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik about Hendrix and their new book on the legendary artist. And this just in from author and music historian Roger Steffens. author of So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley, "Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child is a landmark work that will, in the future, become the first book to read for any serious fan of the Sixties' most innovative guitar god. With scores of intimates revealing first-hand glimpses of genius in the making, you feel you are right there with Jimi at both historic moments and private revelations. History will thank the Kurberniks for their devotion to the truth and glory of Hendrix, and his continuing impact on the world"

SURPRISE! Harvey Kubernik’s in-depth interview with author and publisher Travis Edward Pike about his Long-Grin Saga series of the red-backed, scaly, black-bellied, tusked bat-winged dragon, known from Arthurian Legend as the red dragon that defeated the white dragon in battle. First book in the series is tentatively titled The Courtship of Princess Gwyn, which begins shortly after the Roman Legions withdraw from Britain. The interview is posted exclusively at https://www.long-grin.com/LGRN_DEVELOPMENTS_IN_2022.html

Harvey Kubernik's 12,000 word Hollywood-themed memoir essay on the Monkees along with an interview with Micky Dolenz, "The Monkees. From One Who Was There …" displayed in Ugly Things magazine, and can be read at ugly-things.com/the-monkees-from-one-who-was-there.

In their 2021 Year In Review, LOUD magazine lists Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik's Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child in their Top 5 Books. www.loudmag.com.au/features/2021-year-review.


Harvey Kubernik's interview with Felix Cavaliere of the Rascals is now up at http://ugly-things.com/felix-cavalieres-rascals-and-the-monkees-micky-dolenz-spring-2022-tour/.

2021

Michael Posner’s Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories From This Broken Hill, Volume 2 published by Simon & Shuster chronicles the full breadth of his extraordinary life. This second of three volumes—From This Broken Hill—follows him from the conclusion of his first international music tour in 1971 as he continued to compose poetry, record music, return to touring and search for meaning into the late 1980s. Harvey Kubernik, who knew Leonard Cohen and interviewed three times during the seventies, discusses the new Cohen title with author Posner. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-leonard-cohen-untold-stories-from-this-broken-hill/

Harvey Kubernik checks out the 45th anniversary edition of the KISS Destroyer album for Music Connection magazine and includes his 1975 interview with band members for the now defunct Melody Maker. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-kiss-destroyer-45th-anniversary/

Music journalist and author, Richard Williams brings us into Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child and his praise suggests a deep read of the Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik literary trek. Visit www.thebluemoment.com and his December 27th posting article "Where Jimi Led."

Harvey Kubernik takes us on a deep dive exploration on the just released Johnny Cash at the Carousel Ballroom. Read all about it at https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-johnny-cash-at-the-carousel-ballroom/.

In 2014 Harvey Kubernik interviewed guitarist / arranger / record producer Don Peake about his studio life with the Monkees and Mike Nesmith. Their conversation was just published in the December 20, 2021 www.forgottenhits.com.

Richard Williams, one of England's legendary music journalists and an acclaimed author, has selected Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik's "Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child" in his Top Ten Books of the Year in his 2021: The best bits, on his well-respected site thebluemoment.com.

Harvey Kubernik lays out some news on the authorized Jerry Garcia biopic for Apple in Music Connection magazine who also run a 1976 interview Harvey conducted with the co-founder of the Grateful Dead. Kubernik also speaks with filmmaker Alan Arkush about director Martin Scorsese and Grateful Dead historian and publicist Dennis McNally. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-jerry-garcia-biopic-1976-interview/

More Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child praise arrived this morning, Monday, December 13, 2021, from Del Breckenfeld, Former Director, Entertainment Marketing for Fender Musical Instruments Corp., Chief Amplifier, Amplify Entertainment Marketing who wrote "I remember seeing Jimi Hendrix in 1968 at Chicago’s Civic Opera House, which also happened to be one of the first major concerts I ever attended. Even at a young age, I somehow realized that I was seeing someone so talented and innovative in all aspects of his music and performance that I probably would never see his likes again; and of course, I was right! Although I never had the honor of meeting Jimi in person, I thought I knew him - not only through his music, videos and the countless books I have read over the years, but also through my work with Experience Music on several campaigns during my twenty years at Fender guitars. But lo and behold, Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik have created a work, both so lyrical and unique in its perspective, that I now look at Jimi in a whole new light. In some ways, you can say that after all these years, I have finally met the real Jimi Hendrix."

On Friday, December 10th, Harvey & Kenneth Kubernik were the guest interview subjects on KPFK-FM's program "Pacifica Performance Showcase" hosted by Donna Walker where they discussed for an hour their acclaimed Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child. Their appearance is archived and can be heard at https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/pacifica-performance-showcase at kpfk.org and available for “Play” or “Download” via kpfk.org “Audio Archives” for approximately 2 months after the show airs. 1st half-hour is archived under “Arts in Review” and second half-hour is archived under “Pacifica Performance Showcase.” Their appearance was part of the station's fund drive.

You'll have to scroll down for this one. Marc Meyers in JazzWax December 2021 lists Jimmy Hendrix: Voodoo Child in his JazzWax Holday Gift Guide (Books), "Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child (Sterling), by Harvey Kubernik abd Kenneth Kubernik. The brothers Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik know how to have a good time. In this book on the pre-eminent hard rock guitarist of the 1960s, they dip into their vast interviews vault and assemble a mosaic biography through dozens of oral history exchanges. What's more, the book is a virtual candy box of photos, colorful graphics and psychedelic imagery. It's a coffee table book you can hold with one hand. Your first pass will likely be to thumb through to look at the photos and posters before you return to the front and start reading. The only Hendrix biography that feels as it it's vibrating with feedback while you're reading.

Want a deep-dive cruise on Jimi Hendrix? Author and musicologist Stephen K. Peeples conducted a 10,000 word interview with Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik about Hendrix and their new book on the legendary artist you can be read at https://stephenkpeeples.com/news-and-reviews/jimi-hendrix-voodoo-child-bio-kubernik-brothers-qa/.

Scroll down in today's colorful Monday Morning, December 6, 2021 forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com to see Monday Morning's Riders of the Storm (Official Music Video), and then see Kent Kotal's note re: Harvey's book on The Doors, Summer's Gone, proudly published by Otherworld Cottage Industries BTW, and if that turns you on, the Amazon link below it is still working! Check it out!

A 2012 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with recording engineer Andy Johns describing some of the musical contributions of Charlie Watts to the Rolling Stones is cited in the Bibliography of the recent published "Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters" by Mike Edison, published by Back Beat Books. 4.5 out of 5 stars.

You'll have to scroll down past the Beatles and the Beachboys to see more praise for the Kubernik Jim Hendrix: Voodoo Child book in the Sunday, December 5, 2021 forgottenhits.blogspot.com.

Harvey Kubernik interviews Michael Lindsay-Hogg, the director of the Beatles' "Let It Be" film in 1970, and featured prominently in director Peter Jackson's "The Beatles: Get Back" in https://www.sportsstoriesdl.com/beatles.

DON'T MISS THS ONE! Heaping Lots of Praise on the New "Jim Hendrix: Voodoo Child" Book by Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik in the Wednesday, December 1, 2021 FORGOTTEN HITS.

Presott Niles, bassist, co-founder of The Knack wrote, "Well one might say I’ve been acquainted with Jimi Hendrix in one way or another for many years. I witnessed many concerts including Fillmore East Philharmonic Hall, Madison Square Garden Salvation club & Woodstock. Meeting Jimi with Velvert Turner made quite a lasting impression on me. From the day I met Jimi Hendrix till the day he passed away there has been a deluge of books written about him offering different personas and perspectives. I have read some of them looking for the best combination of information about him as a person and musician. I am happy to report that Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik's book "Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child" is like a room full of mirrors in portraying the various personalities and talents that made for an accurate portrait about Jimi Hendrix. Also included were incredible interviews with notable musicians, engineers friends etc. I’m very grateful that Harvey chose to interview me and including me in this masterful book. I endorse it and say anybody that loves Jimmy and has a passing interest in the great legacy of Jimi Hendrix will love this book for all the reasons I mentioned. I salute the Kubernik brothers for an extraordinary job done."

Dr. James Cushing: One of the tests of any book about Jimi Hendrix is, does it make the reader hear more of what's there in the music? Does this book remove any of the veils that time and chance have placed over the man's genius, and allow it to shine again? Can you read it with one of Jimi's albums -- the newly released "Paris 1967" LP is a good one -- playing in the same room and not feel like a dork? In the case of the Kubernik brothers' "JH: VC" [Sterling, 2021], the answers are yes, yes, and yes. Every page has something even longtime fans didn't know. The multiple-voice technique the brothers-K used in their tomes on The Band and Leonard Cohen brilliantly. Unique interviews reveal new contexts in which Hendrix's music continues to function.

Today on the November 26th www.bestclassicbands.com website, a 1975 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted for the now defunct Melody Maker is spotlighted. Turner discusses her act with the Ike & Tina Turner Revue live show and her 1966 Phil Spector-produced and Jack Nitzsche-arranged recording session of "River Deep, Mountain High."

We're all excited about The Beatles: Get Back six-hour documentary directed by Peter Jackson. Harvey Kubernik applauds Jackson's terrific film, and also reminds us in Music Connection magazine about the initial production by acclaimed director Michael Lindsay-Hogg who directed and lensed The Beatles Let It Be original theatrical release in 1969 which Jackson has expanded with his expertise for Get Back. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-the-beatles-get-back.

Kubernik's Music Connection Michael Lindsay-Hogg interview was also exhibited on the November 23, 2021 www.bestclassicbands.com as the lead feature story with video links of the Beatles in their Through The Lens section.

If you want to really dig deep and enjoy the scholarly praise and kudos on the Kubernik book on Hendrix, take a read of this stellar review courtesy of the Jimi Hendrix Information Management Institute and their "Voodoo Child" newsletter. (Join the Facebook group at www.facebook.com/groups/251427364936379 to see their newsletter.)

And now, you may enjoy Alan Cranis' rare review of Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child at bookgasm!

In his Music Connection magazine's December 2021 issue, Mark Nardone opined of Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child, "Acclaimed journalists Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik celebrate the iconic guitarist with a multi-voice narrative that includes fascinating contributions from musicians of the time, including previously unpublished excerpts from interviews with the recording, producing, and engineering principals from Hendrix’s career, with a focus on his music. Along with stunning photos (Henry Diltz…!) and memorabilia, the book is the ultimate keepsake for Hendrix fans. The authors, who specialize in this kind of deep-dive rock & roll exploration, pull off another pleasure-filled page-turner with this one."

November 23, 2021, Sterling/Barnes and Noble has published Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child written by authors Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik. The volume houses rare and unseen photographs of Hendrix and their text implements many unheard voices and witnesses who comment on Hendrix's ongoing popularity and influence. This is Harvey's 20th book, four titles co-written with brother Kenneth. Order now on Amazon.com.

The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde has a new reissue out of their influential first two albums. Hynde is also the subject of a new documentary performing the songs of Bob Dylan. Read a 2002 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with the singer/songwriter at www.sportsstoriesdl.com/pretenders.

The Harvey & Kenneth Kubernik Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child has been selected by the popular and influential music website www.bestclassicbands.com as one of The Best Music Books of the Year by Best Classic Bands Staff and placed in their Gift Guide. "The book includes previously unpublished excerpts from interviews with the recording, producing and engineering principals from throughout Hendrix’s career, with a focus on his music."

On Friday, November 19, 2021 in Forgottenhits.com The Friday Flash, Jan Alan Henderson, author of Speeding Bullet and The Legendary Lydecker Brothers writes, "With the Kubernik Brothers’ latest tome, Voodoo Chile (sic), readers finally are treated to the real James Marshall Hendrix. Told through both new and familiar voices, the Kuberniks present a fresh account of his legendary life and time. A standout classic."

See the Harvey Kubernik article on THE DOORS L. A. Woman 50th Anniversary Edition December 2021 at https://www.sportsstoriesdl.com/doors.

Want to read some new, insightful and unique SoCal recollections on The Monkees and their television series? Check out Harvey Kubernik's memories of the group at http://forgottenhits60sblogspot.com.

In the December 2021 issue of "Shindig!" magazine Grahame Bent raves about Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child in a 4 star review. "The fact that this spectacularly illustrated Voodoo Child comes from the combined pens of Harvey & Kenneth Kubernik undeniably brings a certain cache. Written primarily from an American viewpoint, aside from its fantastic visuals, the use of colour and eye-catching layouts, one of the book's strongest points is the sheer volume of interviewees and sources quoted in the text which effectively voices the narrative." Author Sheila Weller hails the Kubernik Hendrix book in her review in Air Mail. That same December 2021 issue of Shindig! magazine, No. 121, has a cover story on Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel. Interviews Harvey Kubernik has conducted from his own archive are utilized in the article. The same periodical has a feature article on the 1967 San Francisco Human Be-In which concludes with a sidebar interview Harvey Kubernik conducted in 1997 with poet Allen Ginsberg.

Check out Harvey Kubernik's appreciation of the legendary Leon Russell in this Monday, November 15, 2021 Just Another Manic Monday Forgotten Hits www.forgottenhits.com. That Forgotten Hits issue also includes Harvey Kubernik's memories of multi-instrumentalist Leon Russell, who departed this planet five years ago, and in the the Saturday, November 12th www.forgottenhits.com, Harvey Kubernik paid tribute to Graeme Edge, the co-founder and drummer of the Moody Blues. Portions of a 2017 interview Kubernik conducted with Jason Hayward praising Edge's lyrics and poetry were cited.

This week Harvey Kubernik re-visits a 1978 interview he conducted with Bette Midler on the website https://www.sportsstoriesdl.com/bette-midler. Midler in December will be feted at the annual Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C.

T0day, November 6th, on http;//forgottenhits60s.blogspot, Harvey Kubernik talks to actor/poet Harry E. Northup about witnessing the landmark 1961 Elvis Presley memorial concert for the U.S.S. Arizona at Bloch Arena in Pearl Harbor Hawaii.

This week in Music Connection magazine Harvey Kubernik brings us deep into the 40th anniversary edition of The Band's "Cahoots" album. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-the-band-cahoots-50th-anniversary.

One of this year’s vinyl releases for National Record Store Day Black Friday November 26, 2021 of the never issued Big Brother and the Holding Company (featuring Janis Joplin), Combination of the Two Live at the Monterey International Pop Festival. Both sets are included pressed on psychedelic color vinyl in a high-gloss tip-on jacket. Harvey Kubernik wrote the liner notes for this brand new release. Side 1 (set one): Down On Me / Combination Of The Two / Harry / Road Block / Ball and Chain Side 2 (set two): Combination of the Two / Harry / Ball and Chain.

The Forgotten Hits, Tuesday, October 19, 2021 edition of Tuesday This and That, features Harvey Kubernik's tribute to the late Ron Tutt, drummer in Elvis Presley's TCB band 1969-1977, who later played with Neil Diamond, Jerry Garcia and Elvis Costello is featured. The text incorporates Harvey's archive interviews with legendary drummer Hal Blaine and Presley friend and confident, Jerry Schilling.

Keyboardist/singer/songwriter Billy Preston will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio on October 30th. During 1975 Harvey Kubernik interviewed Preston who recorded/performed with Sam Cooke, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones for the now defunct Melody Maker. This week in 2021 Music Connection magazine exhibits Harvey's archive interview with Billy at https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-billy-prestons-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-induction.

The November issue of "Shindig!" magazine out November 2nd contains a 1997 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with Allen Ginsberg as well as Kubernik interviews with Henry Diltz, Lou Adler and Johnny Rivers in their cover story on the 1967 world of Simon & Garfunkel. Same periodical also displays a 4 star rave review of the Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik "Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child" book published during November by Sterling/Barnes & Noble.

The November/December issue of "Record Collector News" magazine is out at the end of October. Publisher Jim Kaplan interviews the Brothers Kubernik about their Hendrix volume. Click here to see the interview.

On Saturday, October 9, 2021, the well-respected and popular sixties pop culture website ran KUBERNIK . . .HARVEY KUBERNIK... devoting its entire Saturday edition to Harvey Kubernik's essay on the new "The Best of Bond...James Bond," soundtrack just issued. Check it out and enjoy Harvey's interviews about Bond themes with the likes of Andrew Loog Oldham and Nancy Sinatra.

October 8, LATEST MUSIC NEWS, by Harvey Kubernik: THE BEST OF BOND...JAMES BOND. The 25th James Bond film, No Time To Die, from EON Productions and Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios (MGM) was released globally on September 30, 2021 in the UK through Universal Pictures International and scheduled in the US on October 8, 2021, from MGM via its United Artists Releasing banner. The Best of Bond…James Bond is available now as a digital download and a 2CD set; 3LP black vinyl, plus a limited-edition gold vinyl will be available exclusively via uDiscover Music and Sound of Vinyl. Read the BEST OF BOND article at https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-the-best-of-bondjames-bond.

htttp://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org is an unofficial news blog for Neil Young fans from Thrasher's Wheat with concert and album updates, reviews, analysis, and other Rock & Roll ramblings. The site asked Harvey Kubernik to examine the just released "Neil Young Carnegie Hall 1970." Harvey weaves a multi-voice narrative history of the recording and provides a back story of Young's 1970 musical and studio world. It can be read at http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2021/10/review-neil-young-official-bootleg.html.

This week in Music Connection magazine Harvey Kubernik brings new insights into Frank Zappa's surrealistic documentary and soundtrack, 200 Motels, which celebrates a Golden Anniversary With a definitive 6-disc box set. Includes his interviews with Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman who were members in the Zappa touring and recording band. at https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-frank-zappas-200-motels-golden-anniversary.

Harvey Kubernik remembers the heroic efforts of filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles on "Sports Stories with Denny Lennon." Kubernik interviewed the award-winning director, producer, novelist, screenwriter and songwriter in 1998. https://www.sportsstoriesdl.com/mvp.

The first two albums by the Pretenders are scheduled to be reissued in November in an expanded edition. Harvey Kubernik writes about the upcoming product for "Music Connection" magazine who also display Harvey's 2002 interview with bandleader Chrissie Hynde. https://www.musicconnection.com.

Actor/writer/producer Chris M. Allport's New Feature Film "Emily Or Oscar?" debuted this month and won various awards at Southern California film festivals. Allport earned Best Director Feature Film at The 2021 Hollywood Gold Awards, The Santa Clarita International Film Festival, (Best Feature Film Comedy), and The Hollywood International Golden Age Festival. The Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. is screening the movie in late February. Harvey Kubernik serves as an Associate Producer on "Emily Or Oscar"

The Illustrated History of the Monterey International Pop Festival, a 2014 book written by Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik has been cited in the bibliography of author Eric Tessier's recent book Booker T & The MG's Green Onions and Memphis Soul now available in a kindle edition.

During December 2021, Harvey Kubernik will be an on-screen interview subject and receive a consultant credit for the rock & roll revival music documentary in the works about the story of the Toronto Canada 1969 festival featuring the fabled debut of the John Lennon and Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band. Klaus Voorman, Geddy Lee of Rush have been lensed. Kubernik, Alice Cooper, Shep Gordon, Rodney Bingenheimer, John Brower appearances are slated for mid-December, and Robbie Krieger of the Doors is scheduled for a February 2022 taping. Pennebaker Hegedus Films is exec producing the project, which is produced by Vancouver’s Screen Siren Pictures, Toronto’s Chapman Productions, Paris’ Films A Cinq. Trish Dolman, Sally Blake and Ron Chapman produce the doc, which is written by Phyllis Ellis. Lennon, Ono and the band played songs including a cover of “Blue Suede Shoes,” as well as “Dizzy Miss Lizzy,” The Beatles’ “Yer Blues” and a new song “Cold Turkey” as well as Ono’s “Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking for A Hand in the Snow).” The doc will use rare cinematic archive that includes unreleased concert footage from D.A. Pennebaker’s original 16mm film, and a narrative primarily told through the eyes of those who were there. Production kicked off in August 2021 on the 90-minute film. Shooting is in Toronto, Los Angeles, New York, London and Berlin, ready for a spring release touring the festival circuit. It will air on Crave in Canada and Arte in France and Germany. Funding support was made possible by Telefilm Canada, Canada Media Fund, Rogers Cable Network Fund, Rogers Documentary Fund, Hot Docs Slaight Music Fund, and Hot Docs Ted Rogers Fund and the Centre National du Cinéma in France. The film is distributed in Canada by Photon Films, and Myriad Pictures is the distributor outside of Canada.

Advance praise of the November publication of the Kubernik Hendrix book comes from Bill Baars at Library Journal Performing Arts review in October. "Capturing the flavor, the impact, and the enduring legacy of Jimi Hendrix, this is a delightful addition that will enhance and expand readers’ knowledge and appreciation of one of the great figures of popular music." And the November/December issue of Record Collector News magazine has a cover story and interview with Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik on their latest book Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child, which you may view at RCN_1121_89_Hendrix%20(002).pdf.

November 23, 2021, Sterling/Barnes and Noble will publish Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child written by authors Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik. The volume houses rare and unseen photographs of Hendrix and their text implements many unheard voices and witnesses who comment on Hendrix's ongoing popularity and influence. This is Harvey's 20th book, 4 titles co-written with brother Kenneth.

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During September on the "Sports Stories with Denny Lennon" website, Harvey Kubernik wrote about the AXS-TV announced programming of a collection of acclaimed documentaries in the new Into the Spotlight: True Stories of Music’s Unsung Heroes. https://www.sportsstoriesdl.com/axstv>. Three of the music documentaries, The Wrecking Crew, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, and Twenty Feet From Stardom are examined in Harvey's book, Docs That Rock, Music That Matters.

During 2020, Harvey Kubernik served as a consultant on the 2-part documentary Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time directed by Alison Ellwood which debuted on EPIX television. In 2007, Harvey Kubernik was an interview subject in the deluxe edition 40th anniversary DVD of Jailhouse Rock which starred Elvis Presley. He comments on the making of the infamous “Jailhouse Rock” musical number from the M-G-M Presley movie. In 2010 Kubernik served as Consulting Producer on the singer-songwriter documentary, Troubadours directed by Morgan Neville. Kubernik was also a talking head in director Matthew O’Casey’s 2012 Queen at 40 documentary broadcast on BBC Television, later released as a DVD Queen: Days Of Our Lives via Eagle Rock Entertainment.

A 1976 interview Harvey Kubernik did for the now defunct UK music weekly "Melody Maker" with Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead is now available to read in "Music Connection" magazine. Harvey's text also cites new 2021 Grateful Dead retail releases. www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-grateful-dead-listen-to-the-river.

Harvey Kubernik revisits the 1969 "Toronto Pop Rock and Roll Revival" on its 52nd anniversary where John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band debuted. Read about this seminal music event at https://www.sportsstoriesdl.com/toronto.

The immortal Otis Redding would have turned age 80 in September 2021. Harvey Kubernik celebrates "The Big O's ongoing musical legacy on the sports, music and pop culture website "Sports Stories with Denny Lennon." https://ww w.sportsstoriesdl.com/otisredding

The sports and pop culture website Sports Stories with Denny Lennon currently posts a lengthy interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with engineer Andy Johns about his work on the classic Rolling Stones' album Exile on Main Street. Illuminating facts and details on this 1972 LP can be read at on the "Cookin' with Kubernik" section of www.sportsstoriesdl.com.

This week Harvey Kubernik celebrates the just released "Bob Marley & The Wailers' '73" CD/DVD on BEST CLASSIC BANDS – CELEBRATING THE ARTISTS, MUSIC AND POP CULTURE OF THE CLASSIC ROCK ERA.www.bestclassicbands.com.

Charlie Watts, the drummer of the Rolling Stones passed away on August 25th. "Ugly Things" magazine asked Harvey Kubernik to write an appreciation of his musical friendship with Watts. Read his tribute at http://ugly-things.com/charlie-robert-watts/. Harvey's tribute to Charlie Watts is also available on https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-charles-robert-watts-an-appreciation. And American Songwriter has also syndicated Kubernik's tribute to the drummer. See A World Without Charlie Watts, Part3.

Now out is the new September-November 2021 issue of Mike Stax's Ugly Things magazine which spotlights Harvey Kubernik's 10,000 word cover story on the Doors. It's a 1965-2021 memoir expedition about his relationship with the legendary band. There is no online display of this article.

Music Connection magazine and Harvey Kubernik pay tribute to Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited which celebrates a 56th anniversary on August 30th. Check out Harvey's just penned appreciation of this Dylan masterpiece at https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-bob-dylans-highway-61-revisited-anniversary.

Music journalist Mitch Myers in Magnet Magazine explores the historical rapport of Allen Ginsberg and Harry Smith, the cosmic riddle of their First Blues, subliminal conspirator Bob Dylan and other beat coincidences. Harvey Kubernik is cited in his story, and also includes a section of a Ginsberg and Kubernik 1996 interview. " https://magnetmagazine.com/2021/08/19/when-harry-met-allen-whos-on-first-blues.

On Friday, September 3rd, Harvey Kubernik's interview with singer/songwriter PJ Harvey on her 2000 album Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea is scheduled for Music Connection magazine. The Universal Music Enterprises/Island Records label in 2021 has reissued the album in expanded CD edition, vinyl and digital formats.

Harvey Kubernik just conducted a career-spanning interview with pop music and fashion icon Nancy Sinatra. An excerpt from their conversation will be featured as the cover story in the September 2021 issue of "Record Collector News" magazine. Sinatra's album catalogue has been reissued by the Light in the Attic label.

The June/July 2021 issue of UK-based Vintage Rock magazine examines The Band's underrated album Moondog Matinee in a story by Steve Harnell. An excerpt from a 1975 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with Robbie Robertson for Melody Maker concludes the article.

Motown Records founder Berry Gordy will be honored in December at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Harvey Kubernil salutes the legendary record man in "Music Connection" magazine and includes a portion of a 1994 interview Harvey conducted with Berry. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-kennedy-center-honors-berry-gordy Harvey has also posted an expanded profile of Gordy and his Motown empire at http://ugly-things.com/motown-founder-berry-gordy-jr-honored-and-interviewed/#more-3429.

On Tuesday, August 10th, https://bestclassicbands.com Harvey Kubernik's interview with graphic designer/illustrator John Van Hamersveld was featured in "The Scene: The Art & Craft of Rocking," the spotlight section of the website. "The Rolling Stones' "Exile on Main Street": Behind the Cover Art."

Harvey also touts the 2021 documentary "Sparks Brothers" on https://www.sportsstoriesdl.com/cookingwithkubernik. His 1974 "Melody Maker" interview with Sparks is included.

The Forgotten Hits website has just celebrated 20 years as a popular music website, devoted two days of editorial coverage (August 1st-2nd) to Harvey Kubernik and his multi-voice narrative text on the legendary charity Ravi Shankar and George Harrison-birthed concert "The Concert for Bangladesh" on Forgotten Hits. Photographer Henry Diltz supplied many unseen photos from the event. Portions of Harvey's FH contribution appear in his Docs That Rock, Music That Matters book.

Monday, August 2, 2021: The Concert for Bangladesh. Frequent contributor Harvey Kubernik also wrote a piece celebrating the 50th Anniversary of The Concert For Bangla Desh that is currently running in Music Connection ... but he gave us permission to share some excerpts here in Forgotten Hits, too, in tandem with our own anniversary piece. (You can read the whole thing in Music Connection ... and you'll find quite a bit more of Harvey's Bangla Desh commentary in his Docs That Rock, Music That Matters book.) Thanks, Harvey...enjoy readers! KK.

On August 1st, and displayed all week on www.bestclassicbands.com, a 1976 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia is the lead article on the website that celebrates classic rock music and pop culture. Feature story is headlined "Jerry Garcia: A 1976 Encounter with the Grateful Dead's Figurehead."

Harvey Kubernik brings us into the 1969-1971 era of the Beach Boys with his 2007 interview with Brian Wilson on Sports Stories with Denny Lennon. The duo discuss the songs and recordings of the Beach Boys that populate the new album by the Beach Boys "FEEL FLOWS -- THE SUNFLOWER & SURF'S UP SESSIONS 1969-1971."

On September 3, Tuff Gong and Mercury Studios will present a new product from reggae legend Bob Marley on 2LP, CD+DVD and digital formats, Bob Marley And The Wailers: The Capitol Session-73. In Music Connection magazine, Harvey Kubernik takes us on his 50 year relationship with reggae and the many Southern California 1975-1979 concerts he witnessed by Marley and the Wailers. Here's a link to the post: https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-bob-marley-and-the-wailers-the-capitol-session-73.

This week on www.bestclassicbands.com Harvey Kubernik praises the musical legacy of Motown Records. The website also runs Harvey's 1994 interview with Motown founder Berry Gordy. The portal celebrates the artists, and music of the classic rock era.

Harvey Kubernik in the current online edition of the rock 'n' roll quarterly "Ugly Things" magazine profiled and interviewed graphic designer and illustrator John Van Hamersveld, whose pop culture and album cover expedition began over 50 years ago with the iconic "The Endless Summer" movie poster. Please visit http://ugly-things.com.

Thursday 29 July: LOTS of Great Stuff Coming Up In Forgotten Hits! In addition to today’s Thursday This And That Page, we’ll also have a Friday Flash, followed by our Weekly Sunday Survey, which is running on SATURDAY this week so that we can bring you a very special Two-Part Anniversary Salute to The Concert For Bangla Desh from exactly fifty years ago on Sunday, August 1st, and Monday, August 2nd. (Special thanks to Harvey Kubernik, Henry Diltz, Gary Stobl and Ron Lando for their help with this piece.) Which tells me that by next Tuesday (August 3rd) we’ll have more than enough material to fill another Tuesday This And That page! Kent Kotal invites you to visit http://www.forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com.

As the 50th anniversary of "The Concert For Bangladesh" approaches August 1, 2021, "Music Connection" magazine asked Harvey Kubernik to write about this landmark charity event headed by Ravi Shankar and George Harrison. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-concert-for-bangladesh-50th-anniversary

July 19, 2021: Harvey Kubernik on the Chattachoochee Record Label. Kent Kotal who oversees the acclaimed music website www.forgottenhits.com, a 20-year portal acknowledged by multi-instrumentalist/record producer Al Kooper, "Thank you for helping to spread the truth," reached out to Harvey Kubernik on July 19th about the Los Angeles-based independent record company of the sixties, Chattachoochee Records, who released hit singles by the Murmaids and Thee Midniters. Kotal's site subsequently displayed data and information on these groups culled from Harvey's landmark book, "Turn Up The Radio! Rock, Pop, and Roll in Los Angeles 1956-1972." Take a trip down Whittier Boulevard. and dig reality. Forgottenhits.com. Monday, July 19,2021, Monday Moprning.

Harvey Kubernik's 1997 interviews with George Harrison and Ravi Shankar are displayed on the classicbands.com website. The duo discuss The Concert for Bangladesh that celebrates a 50th anniversary on August 1, 2021. The article is George Harrison & Ravi Shankar on the ‘Bangladesh’ Concert, the Sitar, Their Friendship & More, and you will find it at https://bestclassicbands.com/george-harrison-ravi-shankar-interview-7-16-21/

The Wednesday edition of www.bestclassicbands.com touted the Bee Gees documentary "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" which landed 6 2021 Emmy nominations. The site praised the film and implemented 1978 interviews Harvey Kubernik conducted with Barry and Robin Gibb that originally appeared in Melody Maker.

George Harrison's epic "All Things Must Pass" celebrates a 50th anniversary in August and Harvey Kubernik brings us into the creation of the album with the engineer of the endeavor Ken Scott. Read about it in the sports and pop culture website Sports Stories with Denny Lennon. https://www.sportsstoriesdl.com/georgeharrison

Two Views of the Summer of Soul Documentary: Harvey Kubernik on the movie and The Fifth Dimension, and Kent Kotal on the movie appeared on the Sunday, July 11, 2021 Forgottenhits.com.

The acclaimed documentary on the musical group Sparks, "The Sparks Brothers," a 50 year journey headed and lead by Ron and Russell Mael, are the subject of a Harvey Kubernik story in "Music Connection" magazine. The article also includes a 1974 interview Harvey conducted with Ron and Russell for "Melody Maker" magazine. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-the-sparks-brothers/.

Russ Giguere in his autobiography Along Comes The Association: Beyond Folk Rock and Three-Piece Suits first published in hardcover in 2020 by Rare Bird Books recounts an interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with Howard Kaylan of the Turtles that was published in Kubernik's 2014 book Turn up The Radio! Rock, Pop and Roll in Los Angeles 1956-1972.

The Beach Boy's multi-disc box set,  Feel Flows – The Sunflower and Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971, is due on August 27th. Harvey Kubernik in "Music Connection" magazine discusses the 1969-1971 of the Beach Boys with Brian Wilson culled from 1977 and 2007 interviews he conducted with Wilson. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-beach-boys-feel-flows-box-set/.

The July 4th edition of bestclassicbands.com subsequently presented portions of the Kubernik and Wilson encounter at https://bestclassicbands.com/brian-wilson-interview-kubernik-7-3-21/, which some consider to be one of the best-ever interviews with Brian.

DON'T MISS THIS ONE! "When it came time to write a fitting tribute to Jim Morrison, leader of The Doors, who died on this date in 1971, I knew that there wasn't a better man for the job than frequent FH contributor, Harvey Kubernik . . . Harvey's book, The Doors: Summer's Gone tells the story of the band in their own words, in many cases as it happened. Their closest associates also weigh in and the book presents a fascinating look inside the making of the band. It is HIGHLY recommended." http://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/2021/07/july-3rd-jim-morrison-of-doors-died.html.

The Harvey Kubernik assemblage on the Doors you featured in Forgotten Hits on July 3rd, the 50th Anniversary of the passing of Jim Morrison, was as fine a piece of music journalism as I have ever read. Really remarkable. Thank-you to Harvey Kubernik for an excellent job, and to you and Forgotten Hits for providing the venue at which it was presented. --Tim Kiley

In honor of 50 years of The Beach Boys’ timeless and often underappreciated albums, Capitol/UMe will release an expansive 5CD and digital box set titled "Feel Flows – The Sunflower and Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971" on August 27th that chronicles and explores in depth this metamorphic and highly influential 1969-1971 period of the band’s legendary career. Harvey Kubernik in "Music Connection" magazine goes deep into his archive and displays 1977 and 2007 interviews with Brian Wilson about this 1969-1971 era of The Beach Boys. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-beach-boys-feel-flows-box-set/.

The August issue of "Shindig!" magazine features a cover story on The Fifth Dimension by managing editor Andy Morten. A 2012 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted for his book "Turn Up The Radio! Rock, Pop and Roll in Los Angeles 1956-1972" with Bones Howe who engineered and produced their recordings is cited and quoted in the article.

This week Harvey Kubernik's interview with Jackson Browne and their discussion about Jackson's new album "Downhill From Everywhere" is the cover story in the July 2021 issue of "Music Connection" magazine. A longer version of their discussion is now online as well at https://www.musicconnection.com/qa-with-jackson-browne/.

And the word is getting out! In the Friday Flash page of the forgottenhists60s.blogspot Kent Kotal reported "LOTS of buzz for Harvey Kubernik’s new book on Jimi Hendrix, “Voodoo Child.” Written with his brother Kenneth, the book will feature comments from all kinds of people who crossed paths with Jimi back in the day … and is chock full of previously unpublished, never-before-seen photographs. Sounds like a keeper! (kk) 
Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik's upcoming book "Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child" scheduled for October 2021 publication from Sterling/Barnes and Noble was also announced on the June 24th edition of https://bestclassicbands.com/hendrix-voodoo-child-book-kubernik-6-24-21/.

The Real Gone Record label has just reissued on vinyl the landmark soundtrack to director Bruce Brown's epic surf movie The Endless Summer. For Music Connection magazine Harvey Kubernik interviewed graphic artist and illustrator John Van Hamersveld who designed The Endless Summer album cover in 1966 for World Pacific Records. Van Hamersveld subsequently created 300 album covers including the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street and Jefferson Airplane's Crown of Creation https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-graphic-designer-john-van-hamersveld-the-endless-summer-to-exile-on-main-street/.

This week Kubernik's story on Tina Turner, newly inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, implementing his 1975 interview with Turner for Melody Maker is spotlighted on www.bestclassicbands.com as a feature article on their section Scene: Rock and Roll Memories, Tina Turner on Phil Spector, ‘Tommy,’ Touring With the Stones and Being a Sex Goddess.

While two documentaries on Leonard Cohen are in production, popular website http://wearecult.rocks › tag › harvey-kubernik reproduced for online display a 1975 Harvey Kubernik interview with Cohen conducted for "Melody Maker," "Cohen's New Skin." Kubernik interviewed Cohen three times in the seventies and recorded with the poet/singer/songwriter. Simon & Schuster will be publishing a second volume of bestselling author and Cohen biographer Michael Posner, “From This Broken Hill” following Posner's 2020 "Leonard Cohen: Untold Stories, The Early Years." Kubernik was an interview subject for Posner's three-volume Cohen study.

In honor of 50 years of The Beach Boys’ timeless and often underappreciated albums, Capitol/UMe will release an expansive 5CD and digital box set titled "Feel Flows – The Sunflower and Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971" on August 27th that chronicles and explores in depth this metamorphic and highly influential 1969-1971 period of the band’s legendary career. Harvey Kubernik in "Music Connection" magazine goes deep into his archive and displays 1977 and 2007 interviews with Brian Wilson about this 1969-1971 era of The Beach Boys. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-beach-boys-feel-flows-box-set/.

The August issue of "Shindig!" magazine features a cover story on The Fifth Dimension by managing editor Andy Morten. A 2012 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted for his book "Turn Up The Radio! Rock, Pop and Roll in Los Angeles 1956-1972" with Bones Howe who engineered and produced their recordings is cited and quoted in the article.

This week Harvey Kubernik's interview with Jackson Browne and their discussion about Jackson's new album "Downhill From Everywhere" is the cover story in the July 2021 issue of "Music Connection" magazine. A longer version of their discussion is now online as well at https://www.musicconnection.com/qa-with-jackson-browne/.

And the word is getting out! In the Friday Flash page of the forgottenhists60s.blogspot Kent Kotal reported "LOTS of buzz for Harvey Kubernik’s new book on Jimi Hendrix, “Voodoo Child.” Written with his brother Kenneth, the book will feature comments from all kinds of people who crossed paths with Jimi back in the day … and is chock full of previously unpublished, never-before-seen photographs. Sounds like a keeper! (kk) 
Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik's upcoming book "Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child" scheduled for October 2021 publication from Sterling/Barnes and Noble was also announced on the June 24th edition of https://bestclassicbands.com/hendrix-voodoo-child-book-kubernik-6-24-21/.

The Real Gone Record label has just reissued on vinyl the landmark soundtrack to director Bruce Brown's epic surf movie The Endless Summer. For Music Connection magazine Harvey Kubernik interviewed graphic artist and illustrator John Van Hamersveld who designed The Endless Summer album cover in 1966 for World Pacific Records. Van Hamersveld subsequently created 300 album covers including the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street and Jefferson Airplane's Crown of Creation https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-graphic-designer-john-van-hamersveld-the-endless-summer-to-exile-on-main-street/.

This week Kubernik's story on Tina Turner, newly inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, implementing his 1975 interview with Turner for Melody Maker is spotlighted on www.bestclassicbands.com as a feature article on their section Scene: Rock and Roll Memories, Tina Turner on Phil Spector, ‘Tommy,’ Touring With the Stones and Being a Sex Goddess.

While two documentaries on Leonard Cohen are in production, popular website http://wearecult.rocks › tag › harvey-kubernik reproduced for online display a 1975 Harvey Kubernik interview with Cohen conducted for "Melody Maker," "Cohen's New Skin." Kubernik interviewed Cohen three times in the seventies and recorded with the poet/singer/songwriter. Simon & Schuster will be publishing a second volume of bestselling author and Cohen biographer Michael Posner, “From This Broken Hill” following Posner's 2020 "Leonard Cohen: Untold Stories, The Early Years." Kubernik was an interview subject for Posner's three-volume Cohen study.

Harvey Kubernik in Music Connection magazine this week delivers a 15.000 word manifesto on the Doors, and Jim Morrison, whose collected works of poetry, journals, transcripts, and lyrics have just been published by HarperDesign. July 3rd marks the 50th anniversary of Morrison's death in Paris. Take the journey at https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-the-doors-50-years-on.

The Illustrated History of the Monterey International Pop Festival, a 2012 book by by Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik from Santa Monica Press, is listed in the bibliography of the just published Faber & Faber (2020) book Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar by Oliver Craske.

Multi-Telly award-winning director, Chris M. Allport welcomed a Harvey Kubernik cameo appearance in the upcoming rom-com movie musical "Emily or Oscar" which is a "Hollywood golden era" throwback romantic comedy. The following night Harvey was invited special family guest to the joint star-studded 24th birthday party of Zach Bia and YouTuber Anastasia ‘Stassie Baby’ Karanikolaou at Goya in Hollywood In attendance Drake, Kendall Jenner, Hailey Bieber and NBA hoopsters. Drake official Instagram sent out a photo of the bash to his 88 million viewers and Kylie further touted the event to her 239 million followers.

Music Connection magazine this week spotlights Harvey Kubernik's interview with Al Stewart and his Year of the Cat album which has just been reissued as a 45th anniversary edition along with bonus tracks culled from a live 1976 concert. Harvey's Music Connection piece also includes his 1976 Melody Maker interview with Stewart. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-al-stewart-year-of-the-cat-45th-anniversary.

https://www.bestclassicbands.com/billy-preston-interview-5-29-21/, the popular website that celebrates the artists, music and pop culture of the classic rock era on May 29th spotlighted Harvey Kubernik's 1975 interview with keyboardist Billy Preston, a 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.

Harvey Kubernik celebtrates the music of Motown Records coinciding with the opening of the Motown exhibit at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles this spring. Harvey's interviews in the seventies with members of Motown legends the Temptations, the Supremes and the Miracles, along with his 1994 interview interview with label founder Berry Gordy, Jr., can be read at "Music Connection" magazine, https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-grammy-museum-motown-exhibit.

The authorized Allen Ginsberg Project website displayed and touted Harvey Kubernik's multi-voice narrative on Bob Dylan from "Music Connection." A 1996 Kubernik and Ginsberg interview is excerpted in the 12,000 word examination at Bob Dylan's 80th Birthday - The Allen Ginsberg Project

Harvey Kubernik, along with Ann Powers, Paul Zollo, Ross Altman and Ashley Kahn were heard on the National Public Radio broadcast Bob Dylan Special on "Blood on the Tracks" produced by Paul Ingles posted at "XPRX Playlist: Bob Dylan Specials."

In 2008 Kubernik penned the liner notes for the deluxe edition of Alder's production of Carole King's Sony/Legacy/Ode "Tapestry" An LP that has sold 24 million copies. During 2009, Harvey and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee/author/record producer Andrew Loog Oldham contributed the essay texts for "The Essential Carole King" issued by Sony/Legacy.

In celebration of Bob Dylan's 80th birthday and his body of work, "Music Connection" magazine asked Harvey Kubernik to create a Dylan-centric story. Harvey's multi-voice narrative manifesto is now up at https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-happy-80th-birthday-bob-dylan/.

WOW! Starting on Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, Monday 24 May 2021, through Saturday, May 29, 2021, the forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com will be rerunning its 2004 Bob Dylan Series "Songs of Bob Dylan," now featuring several of Dylan's songs as sung and interpreted by others, never before included in the series.

In May 2014, filmmaker Matt O’Casey directed his BBC-TV documentary on singer/performer Meat Loaf, Meat Loaf; In and Out of Hell, that will have a broadcast premiere in America on REELZ TV Sunday evening, May 23rd at 9:00 pm EST/PST. Cast includes Meat Loaf, Lou Adler, Todd Rundgren, Amanda Aday, Tim Curry, Ellen Foley, Karla DeVito and Harvey Kubernik, who also supplied `a portion of the narration. Harvey earned a Platinum album for Meat Loaf's debut LP "Bat Out of Hell."

Harvey Kubernik's long form examination of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's "Deja Vu" album, just reissued in a 50th anniversary edition by Rhino/Warner Music Group can be read at https://www.sportsstoriesdl.com/csny

Music historian and author Harvey Kubernik in May conducted a 75 minute interview with Jackson Browne at Alpha Command Unit multi-purpose recording studio in North Hollywood, Ca. with complex owner/engineer Christopher M. Allport. Browne and Kubernik's audio encounter will initially be the subject of a July 2021 "Music Connection" magazine cover story in their physical issue. Jackson and Harvey discussed Browne's songwriting, tour repertoire and his new album "Downhill From Everywhere."

"Music Connection" magazine this week exhibited Harvey Kubernik's long form multi-voice narrative examination of a true icon Sam Cooke, the subject of a new retail DVD, "SAM COOKE: LEGEND" now available. Here is a link to the post: https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-sam-cooke-legend/.

Harvey Kubernik's expanded text from his cover story in "Record Collector News" magazine on Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's "Déjà Vu" 50th anniversary reissue on Rhino/Warner Music Group was picked up for distribution on the Neil Young-centric website Thrasher's Wheat. Enjoy the journey at http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2021/05/review-crosby-stills-nash-youngsdeja.html.

Harvey Kubernik debuts a new monthly column on the sports and pop culture website "Sports Stories with Denny Lennon." The popular website and podcast has established "Cookin' with Kubernik" section that can be found at https://www.sportsstoriesdl.com/. His first article is about the exhibit "Motown: The Sound Of Young America" which will be on display at the GRAMMY Museum in Downtown Los Angeles, which opens its doors to the public on May 21, 2021. Kubernik's text on Motown includes his interviews with Motown founder Berry Gordy, Jr., the Temptations' David Ruffin, Mary Wilson of the Supremes, the Miracles' Bobby Rogers, Don Peake and members of the Funk Brothers. The next article to be posted on "Cookin' with Kubernik" will be one of Harvey's archive interviews with rapper/actor/ and sports entrepreneur Ice Cube focusing on his 1993 album "Lethal Injection."

In the April 30, 2021 "Music Connection" magazine Harvey Kubernik examines the new "Bob Dylan-1970" album. the text features Harvey's interviews with record producer Bob Johnston and multi-instrumentalist Charlie Daniels. Read it and groove at at https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-bob-dylans-1970-session-with-george-harrison/. The popular Bob Dylan-themed website www.expectingrain.com listed Harvey Kubernik's "Music Connection" piece on the Dylan 1970 album.

The April 27th edition of Best Classic Bands touted Harvey Kubernik's multi-voice essay on the just re-released documentary "Sam Cooke: Legend" now out on DVD from ABKCO Films. Harvey's examination of Cooke's career implements his interviews with Bobby Womack, Lou Adler, Andrew Loog Oldham and Bones Howe. www.bestclassicbands.com.

The music and ongoing legacy of Laurel Canyon is alive and well! For the May/June issue of "Record Collector News" magazine Harvey Kubernik has just interviewed David Crosby and Graham Nash who discuss their 50th anniversary edition of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's album "Deja Vu."

In addition, Harvey has just penned an 18,000 word multi-voice narrative cover story on the Doors and Jim Morrison slated for the June/July issue of "Ugly Things" magazine. The text contains Harvey's interviews with three members of the Doors. July 3, 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of Morrison's passing.

The Friday edition of www.rocksbackpages.com, the online library of pop writing, displays a 2004 article by Harvey Kubernik on The Ramones/Phil Spector "End of the Century" album recorded at the landmark Gold Star Studios in Hollywood. The text features Interviews with three members of the the Ramones.

This week's "Music Connection" magazine spotlights Harvey Kubernik's story on the Doors' album "L.A. Woman" which celebrates a 50th anniversary anniversary during April. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-the-doors-l-a-woman-50th-anniversary/. Kubernik is also scheduled to interview Jackson Browne for the August 2021 cover story of "Music Connection" magazine. Browne embarks on a tour with James Taylor this summer. Rhino/WMG is also set to re-release the first 4 albums by Joni Mitchell in June.

Harvey Kubernik has joined Sports Stories with Denny Lennon as an adviser, writer and consulting producer. Sports Stories with Denny Lennon aims to bring its listeners interesting, unique, and uplifting stories from the world of sports.

Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, announced the label's line-up of releases created especially for Record Store Day 2021, celebrated at participating stores worldwide on Saturday, June 12 and Saturday, July 17. RSD titles include the Bob Dylan "Jokerman/I And I" (Reggae Remix EP (12" vinyl), two newly commissioned reggae remixes by Doctor Dread. The original versions of each track appeared on Dylan's 1983 "Infidels" album featuring Sly Dunbar (drums) & Robbie Shakespeare (bass) as the rhythm section. The two "I And I" remixes were previously released on 2003's "Is It Rolling Bob: A Reggae Tribute" album which featured liner notes by reggae scholar and author, Roger Steffens, who quoted Harvey Kubernik in his essay.

Harvey Kubernik brings us into the world of singer Merry Clayton this week in Music Connection magazine. Her new album "Beautiful Scars" is now out. Clayton speaks to Kubernik about her legendary vocal duet with Mick Jagger on the Stones' Gimme Shelter and her vocal work on Carole King's Tapestry. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-merry-clayton-beautiful-scar.

Harvey Kubernik tells us about the new 3-CD/2-LP collection "Fleetwood Mac Live: Super Deluxe" edition of live Fleetwood Mac dates recorded between 1977-1982 in the new Music Connection which also exhibits his 1976 interview with band members for "Melody Maker." https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-fleetwood-mac-live-super-deluxe-edition/

A 1975 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with Johnny Cash for the now defunct Melody Maker is excerpted in Bob Dylan: No Direction Home Revised Illustrated Edition by Robert Shelton and edited by Elizabeth Thomson, published by Palazzo in 2021.

In the Reviews section of It's Psychedelic Baby Music Books By Steve Matteo, the reviewer states, "Harvey Kubernik’s Docs That Rock, Music That Matters . . . examines the long history of the rock music film. [And] He interviews many of the key directors and offers musical, cinematic and cultural context."

The acclaimed DVD "Sam Cooke: Legend" will be updated and re-released on April 30th from ABKCO Films. Harvey Kubernik reminds us about Cooke and goes into his own archives to display interviews with Lou Adler, Bobby Womack and Andrew Loog Oldham we can read at Forgotten Hits on Tuesday, March 23rd at forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com.

Harvey Kubernik in Music Connection this week tips us to the new 35 CD box set by blues legend John Mayall and reminds us about Mayall's late sixties musical life in Laurel Canyon. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-john-mayall-35-cd-box-set/.

Singer-songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen’s third studio album, Songs of Love and Hate, produced by Bob Johnston, was released by Columbia Records on March 19, 1971. Harvey Kubernik touts this Cohen album celebrating a 50th anniversary this week on www.bestclassicbands.com.

The HBO documentary on Tina Turner debuts on March 27, 2021. During 1975 Harvey Kubernik interviewed Tina for the now defunct "Melody Maker." Now in 2021 he examines Turner's life and recording career for Ugly Things magazine. Check out his very topical and retrospective story at http://ugly-things.com/tina-new-hbo-documentary-and-a-1975-interview/.

Harvey Kubernik's 2020 story on Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's "Deja Vu" album for Music Connection magazine has just been exhibited again on the Neil Young-centric website Thrasher's Wheat previewing the 50th anniversary edition reissue of the album due out in mid-May via Rhino Records, http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2021/03/details-deja-vu-50th-anniversary.html.

Harvey Kubernik praises the Leonard Cohen album Songs of Love and Hate which celebrates a 50th anniversary in mid-March and interviews author Michael Posner on his new Cohen biography Leonard Cohen: Untold Stories. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-leonard-cohen-songs-of-love-and-hate-50th-anniversary/

John Densmore, co-founder of the Doors, has a new book out, The Seekers: Meetings With Remarkable Musicians (and Other Artists), published by Hachette Books. Harvey Kubernik interviewed the drummer/author for www.bestclassicbands.com on their Wednesday, March 10, 2021 feature page.

On the Tuesday, March 10, 2021 edition of www.forgottenhits.com,, Tuesday This and That section, Harvey Kubernik penned an appreciation of record producer/composer Sir George Martin, who signed the Beatles to their EMI record deal and produced all the band's recordings. http://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/. The portal also exhibited Kenneth Kubernik's 2005 "Variety" Magazine cover story on the Beatles at https://variety.com/2005/scene/vpage/here-there-everywhere-1117930700/#!

This week in "Music Connection" Harvey Kubernik touts the new album by Marianne Faithfull She Walks In Beauty and goes into his archive and pulls out a 1995 interview he did with the vocalist/author. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-marianne-faithfull-she-walks-in-beauty/

This week, in rocksbackpages.com, the online library of pop writing, an October 2009 article in the San Francisco Bay Guardian by writer Kandia Crazy Horse on multi-instrumentalist/record producer Jonathan Wilson is featured. She devotes a handful of paragraphs to Harvey Kubernik's epic Canyon of Dreams The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon. "Harvey Kubernik, a keenly clued-in and cosmically sensitive Pisces born in Hollywood, just dropped this season's key entry chronicling that era and its ever-lingering aftereffects: the fine Laurel Canyon study Canyon of Dreams (Sterling, 384 pages, $29.95). Kubernik focuses on the tall tales of L.A. He reveals how the creativity, social experimentation, and mystery yearning of the denizens of canyons on L.A.'s west side changed America as it was teleported on the airwaves and on the backs of freaky-deak human hosts. The elite and cult acts that largely power Kubernik's fables — Gene Clark; Arthurly; Gram Parsons; Lowell George; John and Michelle Phillips; the magicians of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young — have left towering sonic, sartorial, and spiritual legacies. Yet Kubernik is not mired in the misty mountain-hopping of yesteryear — he's keen enough to close Canyon of Dreams with a portrait of one of that halcyon era's most important heirs: Jonathan Wilson."

On the March 3rd Best Classic Bands website, Harvey Kubernik celebrates singer Merry Clayton on her new album "Beautiful Scars" and reaches into his vast archive from a 2008 interview with her about recording with the Rolling Stones on "Gimme Shelter" and working with Carole King on "Tapestry" at www.bestclassicbands.com.

On the Saturday February 27, 2021 edition of Forgotten Hits, Harvey Kubernik touted the March 6, 2021 PBS-TV broadcast of the Murray The K hosted 1965 "It's What's Happening, Baby" music spectacular. http://forgottenhits60sblogspot.com/February 27, 2021.

26 February 2021: Do you like reggae music and Bob Marley? Let Harvey Kubernik bring you into the legacy of Island Records and their Volume One Vinyl Series. Harvey also reminds us about the just released and highly acclaimed Bob Marley box set Songs of Freedom: The Island Years. Here is a link to the Island Records post: https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-bob-marley-island-records/.

19 February 2021: This week at Music Connection magazine Harvey Kubernik writes about The Band and the new deluxe edition re-release of their Stage Fright album: https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-the-band-stage-fright-50th-anniversary.

Harvey Kubernik reminds us of the legacy of singer/performer Billy Stewart and his new documentary that is being broadcast on over 100 PBS-TV channels in February. See the article on bestclassicbandsto read all about it.

The musical career of Rock Hall Inductee and R&B legend Bobby Womack is examined by Harvey Kubernik on the February 18, 2021 edition of BestClassicBands.com.

During the week of February 12th-19th www.rocksbackpages.com, the online library of pop writing spotlights several of Harvey Kubernik's 1976-2021 articles on Ian Hunter, bandleader of Mott the Hoople, Sparks, Carole King and her Tapestry album, Kubernik's tribute to engineer/record producer Elliot Mazer, and Mary Wilson - RIP. And don't overlook Barney Hoskyns RBP podcast sidebar in which he lists Harvey's Docs That Rock, Music That Matters as Essential Reading, and provides a direct link to its page on Amazon.com.

Harvey Kubernik's multi-voice narrative examination of the Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan friendship and musical relationship is now available to be read at the Ugly Things magazine website http://ugly-things.com/johnny-cash-live-at-san-quentin-returns-and-a-1975-interview/. Kubernik's Dylan/Cash articles were subsequently both listed on the well-regarded Bob Dylan news website www.expectingrain.com.


On www.forgottenhits.com and their February 15, 2021 http://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/, Harvey Kubernik reflects on Mary Wilson of The Supremes and provided some excerpts from interviews he conducted with the Motown icon.

On Friday, February 12, 2021, the www.bestclassicibands.com website that celebrates artists, music and pop culture of the classic rock era, Harvey Kubernik's 1974-2013 interviews with Ray Manzarek, co-founder of the Doors on the band's 6 studio albums were featured.

During the week of February 12th-19th www.rocksbackpages.com, the online library of pop writing spotlights several of Harvey Kubernik's 1976-2021 articles on Ian Hunter, bandleader of Mott the Hoople, Sparks, Carole King and her Tapestry album, Kubernik's tribute to engineer/record producer Elliot Mazer, and Mary Wilson - RIP. And don't overlook Barney Hoskyns RBP podcast sidebar in which he lists Harvey's Docs That Rock, Music That Matters as Essential Reading, and provides a direct link to its page on Amazon.com.

Harvey Kubernik remembers Motown legend Mary Wilson, co-founder of the Supremes at Music Connection magazine. His memoir story can be read on https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-remembering-mary-wilson-of-the-supremes/.

Harvey Kubernik debuted this week on music industry veteran and editor Michael Fremer's Analog Planet website, a recording studio, technology and music business driven-portal with his 2015 interview conducted with sound engineer/record producer Elliot Mazer, who passed away earlier in the month. See the interview at https://www.analogplanet.com/content/recording-engineer-producer-elliot-mazer-rip.

On Wednesday, February 10th, Harvey Kubernik saluted the life and recording career of engineer/producer Elliot Mazer on the well-respected Neil Young-centric Thrasher's Wheat website, q.v. at http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2021/02/elliot-mazer-1941-2021.html

Are you down with Janis Joplin? Her album "Pearl" celebrates a 50th anniversary this month and Harvey Kubernik tells us about all the Janis Joplin-themed projects and products due in 2021 on https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-janis-joplin-pearl-50th-anniversary/.

ON February 3rd, 2021, bestclassicbands.com posted Harvey Kubernik's essay about February 3, 1959 ‘The Day the Music Died’: 1st-Hand Recollections of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper as this week's featured article in their THE SCENE: THE CLASSIC ROCK LEGACY spotlight series, and in their NEWS PLUS: NEWS section, touts the new music documentary Fat Boy: The Billy Stewart Story about the R&B and soul music legend, and displays Harvey Kubernik's article about the Documentary on '60s R&B Star Billy Stewart Airing on PBS Stations in a conversation about the life of Stewart with filmmaker Beverly Lindsay-Johnson. Kubernik's story was subsequently syndicated on www.newsbreak.com.

Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. In his pastdaily.com review of Docs That Rock, Music That Matters, Gordon reports "What Harvey Kubernik has done, and it’s a herculean effort, is take everything that’s in circulation or has been released as of 2020 and cram it all into one reference book, making it a fascinating as well as an engrossing read. Read Gordon's entire review at https://pastdaily.com/2021/01/31/docs-that-rock-music-that-matters-harvey-kubernik-past-daily-sunday-book-review/#.

Kent Kotal in the Thursday February 4th 2021 edition of his www.forgottenhits.com website kicks off the day's content at the http://forgottenhits60ablogspot.com. touting Carole King’s landmark “Tapestry” album and citing Harvey Kubernik "who penned the liner notes for the special re-release version of this great CD) has put together a very interesting retrospective of not only Carole’s album but also many of the players who were 'instrumental' in pulling the whole thing together. If you’re a fan of this LP (and who isn’t), I think you’ll find Harvey’s piece (currently running in Music Connection) musicconnection.com/kubernik-carole-king-tapestry-50th-anniversary/ very interesting … And you mayalso find his piece on A Boy Named Sue" interesting, too ..."

Harvey Kubernik takes you behind the scenes on https://bestclassicbands.com/johnny-cash-boy-named-sue-shel-silverstein-1-29-21/ and runs down the origin of the Shel Silverstein-penned hit single "A Boy Named Sue" that Johnny Cash recorded live at his 1969 live concert at San Quentin prison.

The 50th anniversary of Carole King's epic Tapestry album is rocking the music industry, and the fact that Harvey Kubernik wrote the liner notes has not been lost on the music mavens. See Christian John Wikane's article of 24 April 2008, pop historian Don Kirshner's May 24, 2008 article, in The Pop History Dig, and You've Got a Friend by Carole King exploring the meaning, lyric interpretation, video, (in which quotes and research come from Harvey Kubernik's piece in Rock's Backpages appear. In 2008, Harvey penned penned the liner notes to the deluxe edition of Tapestry and in 2010 wrote liner note essays with Andrew Loog Oldham for The Essential Carole King. In 2008 Phil Gallo of Variety cited Kubernik's liner notes to Tapestry in his story Carole King's legacy clear about the legendary album. And, writer Stephen K. Peeples on February 8th posted his 1994 liner notes to the Ode Records collection Carole King: A Natural Woman and Harvey Kubernik received a special thanks in his online credits. https://stephenkpeeples.com/news-and-reviews/carole-king-a-natural-woman-the-ode-collection-liner-notes-1994/.

As Carol King's Tapestry turns 50, Harvey celebrates the phenomenal build-up to the album by the singer songwriter/pianist and the landmark recording produced by Lou Adler in Shindig! magazine.

It's the 50th anniversary of Carole King's epic Tapestry album and Harvey Kubernik details all the melodic history for Music Connection magazine this last week of January 2021.

Harvey Kubernik's 2015 book Leonard Cohen Everybody Knows is quoted in Prof. Peter Billingham's Spirituality and Desire in Leonard Cohen's Songs and Poems: Visions from the Tower of Song book published by Cambridge Scholars. In the March 2021 issue UNCUT magazine a 1978 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with Leonard Cohen and Phil Spector inside Gold Star recording studio is included in Stephen Trousse's cover story on Cohen titled State of Grace.

On Saturday, January 23rd, Harvey was the guest on host Larry Battson’s radio show Animal Tracks, posted on Larry Battson Facebook Live discussing Harvey’s 19th book, Docs That Rock, Music That Matters.

Author Loren Glass has just written a book for Bloomsbury Academic publishing and their 33 1/3 series on Carole King's Tapestry due in March, 2021. Harvey Kubernik is amply cited in the credits and bibliography. In 2008 Harvey penned the liner notes to a Tapestry deluxe edition CD for Sony/Legacy/Ode Records.

Ventures: Stars on Guitars has just been released on DVD. The new February 2021 issue of UK-based Shindig! magazine features a multi-page article on the legendary instrumental band, The Ventures, incorporating Harvey's interview with co-founder Don Wilson. Next up, the March issue of Shindig! will feature Kubernik’s cover story on the Mamas and the Papas whose debut album Can You Believe Your Eyes And Ears is being re-released by Geffen/UMe Records. The LP now features the original cover photo by Guy Webster, the subject of a Kubernik-penned, 2014 coffee table book, Big Shots: Rock Legends and Hollywood Icons.

Read all about rock icon Tina Turner from her 1975 "Melody Maker" interview with Harvey Kubernik, Tina's upcoming 2021 HBO documentary, Turner's reflections on touring in the sixties and seventies, and recording "River Deep, Mountain High" with arranger Jack Nitzsche and producer Phil Spector in the Hollywood landmark Gold Star recording studio in 1966. Here is a link to the post. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-tina-turner-documentary/.

Harvey Kubernik's 1975 interview for the now defunct Melody Maker with record producer Phil Spector is the headline article during the week of January 21-28 2021 along with other Spector-centric articles by Roy Carr, Norman Jopling and Joel Selvin on www.rocksbackpages.com, the online library of pop music writing.
In April, House of Anasi Press will publish author Joel Selvin’s Hollywood Eden: The Story of the Rise of Southern California’s Musical Mythos with The Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, the Byrds, Mamas & Papas. Harvey Kubernik is thanked in the book and select archive interviews created from his library for Kubernik's acclaimed 2014 book Turn Up The Radio! Rock, Pop, and Roll in Los Angeles 1956-1972 introduction by Tom Petty, are implemented in Selvin’s text and acknowledged in his bibliography.

Harvey Kubernik's 1988 interview with arranger/producer Jack Nitzsche is quoted in the January 19, 2021 edition of "The Los Angeles Times" by staff writer Randall Roberts now syndicated by The Associated Press "Listening to Phil Spector: A three-minute thrill ride, then a reckoning with evil" - Los Angeles Times. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-01-18/phil-spector-producer-dead

Harvey Kubernik's interview with director Alison Ellwood about her new music documentary THE GO-GO'S, now up at Music Connection. It's an expanded text from his current cover story in Record Collector News magazine. Enjoy their lengthy dialogue at https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-go-gos-documentary-qa-with-director-alison-ellwood/

Want to know about poet Allen Ginsberg's relationship to music and his "new" poetry recording from 1956? Take a journey with Harvey Kubernik who knew him. Ugly Things magazine displays a couple of Kubernik and Ginsberg interviews at http://ugly-things.com/allen-ginsberg-at-reed-college-the-first-recorded-reading-of-howl/. Harvey Kubernik's 1994 and 1996 interviews with Ginsberg will be featured in the spring 2021 issue #100 of Beat Scene magazine, a UK quarterly publication edited by Kevin Ring.

Stephen K. Peeples, Santa Clarita journalist, Grammy nominee, award-winning radio producer, award-winning online editor, veteran writer-producer-talent for print, radio, TV and the Web, interviewed author Harvey Kubernik about his moost recent book, Docs That Rock, Music That Matters. Read the entire long-form review at https://stephenkpeeples.com/stephen-k-peeples/author-harvey-kubernik-qa-docs-that-rock-music-that-matters/".

Have a look and dig Harvey Kubernik's birthday tribute to Elvis Presley and his essay about the new box set Elvis In Nashville culled from 1970 Nashville recording sessions. Enjoy the read at: https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-happy-birthday-elvis-presley/.

A Harvey Kubernik 1999 interview with the songwriting and production team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller is cited in author Ken Emerson's book "Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era" published by Viking.

Music Connection magazine in their year end wrap on December 31, 2020 ran Harvey Kubernik's multi-voice narrative about legendary multi-instrumentalist Chris Hillman, who helped forge the country rock/Americana music sound with his solo endeavors and earlier work with the Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers. Please visit the link at https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-interviews-on-chris-hillman-in-anticipation-of-upcoming-autobiography/.

A Kubernik 1975 encounter and interview with David Bowie is cited on the Bowie Golden Years: 1975 website at ww.bowiegoldenyears.com. Following the taping, Harvey Kubernik interviewed Bowie for Melody Maker.

2020

We are delighted to report that Canadian-based author Michael Posner's just published book Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years from Simon & Schuster has received glowing reviews in UK music magazines UNCUT and MOJO. Harvey Kubernik penned a testimonial blurb on the back cover of this Cohen book, the first of three volumes. Kubernik is also cited in a recent story on Posner at Michael Posner - the King Of Cohen - Jewish Post and News. "I quote from Harvey Kubernik, a very well known music historian and himself the author of Leonard Cohen, Everybody Knows, who wrote the jacket in the book."

In mid-December Harvey Kubernik did a two-hour podcast interview with New Mexico-based host Eliot Goldstein on his Not Your Mother's Radio Podcast. Hear it all at https://www.spreaker.com/user/12883608/harvey-final. Kubernik followed previous guests on the show which have included Robby Krieger of the Doors, as well as Frank Zappa Mothers of Invention/Mothers former members Don Preston, Bunk Gardner, Ed Mann and Ian Underwood.

The Bee Gee's documentary premiered on the HBO cable television channel in mid-December. Read Harvey Kubernik's story on the legendary group which draws from a 1978 interview he conducted with the trio for "Melody Maker." https://cavehollywood.com/bee-gees-how-can-you-mend-a-broken-heart-hbo-documentary-set-for-december-12th-premiere/.

We're gearing up for our January/February issue of Record Collector News magazine published the first week of January 2021 for which Harvey Kubernik will be interviewing filmmaker Alison Ellwood who just directed "The GO-GO'S" acclaimed documentary that recently debuted on Showtime TV summer of 2020 that will later be released on DVD during February.

You say you have heard of The Ventures, the world's biggest selling instrumental band with over 100 million sales. Harvey Kubernik takes you way further into their sonic world for "Ugly Things" magazine just as their first-ever documentary was released in December. http://ugly-things.com/the-ventures-first-documentary-stars-on-guitars/

On January 29, 2021, the Geffen/UMe record label is set to release the Mamas & The Papas’ If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears on black vinyl. Harvey Kubernik examines this epic album and interviews producer Lou Adler, engineer Bones Howe and Michelle Phillips of the group for Music Connection magazine at https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-mamas-the-papas-if-you-can-believe-your-eyes-and-ears-55th-anniversary/

The January/February 2021 issue of "Record Collector News" magazine and their online portal will feature Harvey Kubernik's cover story on director Alison Ellwood, director of the the new documentary "The Go-Go's" which premiered in 2020 on Showtime television.

For the March 2021 issue of the UK-based "Shindig!" magazine Harvey Kubernik is writing the cover story on the Mamas and the Papas whose debut album Can You Believe Your Eyes And Ears" is being rereleased in January 2021 by Geffen/UMe Records, and you'll find it at https://www.shindig-magazine.com.

On Friday Evening, December 11th, author and music historian Harvey Kubernik was the guest interview subject on the widely syndicated late-night radio music talk program "Coast to Coast AM" hosted by Ian Punnett. Kubernik will also interact with callers in the 10:00 pm-midnight timeslot (PST), discussing his latest book, "Docs That Rock, Music That Matters," as well as the musical legacy of Laurel Canyon, music documentaries, disco recordings, and the Bee Gees. "Coast to Coast AM" has a listenership of over 2.5 million, is estimated to be carried by 500 affiliates, a number of FM stations, is streamed on the show's website, and also broadcast by 12 clear-channel stations, including KFI-AM (640) in the Los Angeles market.

Cave Hollywood, the underground portal to the world of music cool has just exhibited Harvey Kubernik's interview with Alex Winter, the director of "ZAPPA," a documentary on Frank Zappa at https://cavehollywood.com/frank-zappa-documentary-scheduled-for-november-27th-2020/

Tower Records is celebrating a 60th anniversary and the famed record chain is back in action. Harvey Kubernik gives you the story and also includes his 2015 interview with Tower founder Russ Solomon at musicconnection.com.

Reggae music legend Bob Marley has a slew of 2020 retail releases from Universal Music Group and Eagle Vision. Harvey Kubernik touts the assorted titles on cavehollywood.com. Join his Bob Marley expedition at https://cavehollywood.com/bob-marley-uprising-live-2.

If you missed Author Harvey Kubernik's November 30 interview on the Monday, November 30th edition of the "Feedback" satellite radio program on the SiriusXM music talk channel Volume (106) hosted by Nik Carter & Lori Majewski, you missed Nik Carter's reaction to Docs That Rock, Music That Matters, here's a taste. "This book is bananas! It's an extraordinary book." declared Nik Carter, co-host with Lori Majewski of their "Feedback" program on the SiriusXM satellite radio music talk Volume channel 106.


Today rocksbackpages.com, the online library of pop writing headlined Harvey Kubernik 10,000 word essay on George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" album that is celebrating a 50th Anniversary this week and exhibited under the banner OUR SWEET GEORGE — Harvey Kubernik tells the epic story of the "Quiet" Beatle's All Things Must Pass, 50 years old this week. It can be read during November on the portal.


Want to know about The Ventures, the world's most known instrumental band with over 100 albums. Their first documentary debuts December 8th. Harvey Kubernik talks to founding member guitarist Don Wilson about the group's 60 year career for "Music Connection" magazine. To learn more, visit https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-the-ventures-stars-on-guitars/


Author Harvey Kubernik is scheduled to be the feature interview subject on the Monday, November 30th edition of the "Feedback" satellite radio program on the SiriusXM music talk channel Volume (106) hosted by Nik Carter & Lori Majewski. Kubernik phones in at 6:20 am (PST) to discuss his Otherworld Cottage Industries title, "Docs That Rock, Music That Matters."


BEST CLASSIC BANDS – CELEBRATING THE ARTISTS, MUSIC AND POP CULTURE OF THE CLASSIC ROCK ERA. 2020 in Review: The Best Music Books of the Year lists Docs That Rock, Music That Matters by Harvey Kubernik. "Here is the “real-to-reel backstory” behind many of the music DVDs and documentary films you have on your shelves and in rotation in your home library. This book includes dialogues with acclaimed Oscar winners including D. A. Pennebaker, Murray Lerner and Albert Maysles."


The Staples Singers have a new box set out of their recordings for the monumental Stax Records label and Harvey Kubernik will tell you all about it on the cavehollywood.com website.


The Bee Gees have a new HBO documentary set to debut in December. Harvey Kubernik writes about it and re-visits a 1978 interview he conducted with the trio for Music Connection magazine. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-bee-gees-how-can-you-mend-a-broken-heart/


On November 14th, Harvey Kubernik was the special guest interview subject on "The Weekend Warrior Show" ESPN radio program hosted by renown orthopedic surgeon Dr. Robert Klapper of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The duo discussed discussed Harvey's new book "Docs That Rock, Music That Matters" and the landmark "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" album by Derek and the Dominos, which celebrated a 50th Universal Music Enterprises label anniversary edition on November 13th. http://www.espn.com/espnradio/losangeles/podcast/archive?id=6182844.

Music Connection magazine this week proudly debuted Harvey Kubernik's multi-voice narrative salute to the 50th anniversary of George Harrison's epic "All Things Must Pass." Take the journey at https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-george-harrison-all-things-must-pass-50th-anniversary/.

In Ugly Things magazine online, Harvey Kubernik remembers Otis Redding and his 1966 stint at the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood. Read it here at http://ugly-things.com/revisiting-otis-redding-live-at-the-whisky-a-go-go/.

On October 22nd Music Connection magazine posted a link to the latest Harvey Kubernik Q&A. Read his interview with Adam Bentley and his progressive metal fusion band, Arch Echo. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-qa-with-nashvilles-arch-echo/. It's the 50th anniversary this week of Elton John's "Tumbleweed Connection." Music Connection asked Harvey Kubernik to write about it. You'll find it here. And now, Harvey Kubernik's article in "Music Connection" on the new Frank Zappa documentary ZAPPA, a film by Alex Winter can be read at https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-qa-with-zappa-director-alex-winter/.

Cavehollywood.com is now showcasing Harvey Kubernik's feature on Derek and the Dominos 50th Anniversary of their "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, and last week spotlighted Harvey's interview with author/musician Jan Henderson. Enjoy their dialogue about Henderson's new book on Laurel Canyon, Hollywood in the fifties, George Reeves aka Superman, writers Rod Serling, Andrew Loog Oldham, Sterling Silliphant, the Doors, and Dennis Hopper. View it here.

Posted on Friday, October 16, 2020, the forgottenhits60sblogsbpot's Friday Flash announced "Harvey Kubernik’s got a GREAT new piece up about the recent Jimi Hendrix Live In Maui album and documentary releases on the way. You can check it out here: https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-jimi-hendrix-live-in-maui-album-on-the-way-with-new-documentary/". Redundant? Yes, but coming from Kent Kotal's Forgotten Hitsa, certainly worth mentioning.

This week Music Connection magazine posted Harvey Kubernik's examination of the upcoming (November 20th) release of the Experience Hendrix L.L.C./Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment brand new feature length documentary Music, Money, Madness . . . Jimi Hendrix In Maui as well as the accompanying album Live In Maui. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-jimi-hendrix-live-in-maui-album-on-the-way-with-new-documentary/.

And this just in from Roger Steffens, author of So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley. Harvey Kubernik has done it again, this time in a broad overview of some of rock music's most important, and most overlooked, documentaries. Telling stories of battles to get films made, secret histories with prime movers, fascinating trivia about some of the most famous cinematic studies of beloved music, Kubernik's encyclopedic knowledge astounds and enlightens.

In his blog, thebluemoment.com, Richard Williams praised the story of RSG! "the fine documentary shown on BBC4 earlier this year, but never so thoroughly, informatively and entertainingly as in Ready Steady Go! The Weekend Starts Here, a large-format (12″x12″) history by Andy Neill, who has been everywhere one could possibly go to unearth every scrap of information on the show’s birth, life and death." He concludes with "Andy Neill’s Ready Steady Go! The Weekend Starts Here is published by BMG (£39.99). And at the very end of the article adds, "For more about pop and rock on the small and large screen, there’s Docs That Rock, Music That Matters by Harvey Kubernik, published in the US by Otherworld Cottage (about £35), including chapters on American Bandstand, D. A. Pennebaker, Peter Whitehead’s Charlie Is My Darling, Concert for Bangladesh and many other subjects."
Docs That Rock, Music That Matters includes a chapter on Ready Steady Go! and Harvey's interviews on the recent Ready, Steady, Go! documentary and book are currently featured in Music Connection Magazine.

Music Connection has posted a link to a Harvey Kubernik story on author Jeff Gold's new book SITTIN’ IN: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and 1950s just published by Harper Design.

During October, November and December, Music Connection magazine and cave.hollywood.com will be presenting his stories on Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, the Staples Singers, interviews with musician Adam Bentley and author Jan Alan Henderson, and a multi-voice narrative 50th anniversary tribute to Derek & the Dominoes and their epochal "Layla" album.

The November issue of UK periodical "Shindig!" will have a cover story on the Byrds, and will be utilizing Harvey's archive interviews with member Chris Hillman.

The forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com of Tuesday, October 6, 2020, Tuesday This And That, features a Harvey Kubernik memoir reflection on Herb Alpert and his new documentary, "Herb Alpert is . . ."

Author Joel Selvin, in his new book "Electric Guitars, Fast Cars, and the Myth of the California Paradise: Hollywood Eden," has utilized published articles by Harvey Kubernik listed in his acknowledgements as well as two Kubernik penned-books in Selvin's Bibliography: "Hollywood Shack Job: Rock Music in Film and on Your Screen," and "Turn Up the Radio! Rock, Pop, and Roll in Los Angeles, 1956– 1972." Selvin's book is to be published in April, 2021, by Canadian-based House of Ansansi.

If you are heavy into Otis Redding, do take a read on Harvey Kubernik's tribute to Otis Redding and his monumental live album recorded at the Whisky A Go Go in 1966. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-revisiting-otis-redding-live-at-the-whisky-a-go-go/.Mike Stax, publisher/editor of "Ugly Things" magazine, a roots music quarterly, for the early November issue, has asked Harvey to expand his existing Otis Redding text for the "UT" website. There will also be 1966/1967 visuals and artifacts courtesy of the Gary Pig Gold archives. There's also a chapter on Redding's available documentaries in Kubernik's "Docs That Rock, Music That Matters."

Harvey’s Docs That Rock, Music That Matters is the subject of this 90-minute podcast interview with Goldmine magazine Editor Pat Prince. The widely acclaimed book will be required reading in some film and music classes next year and is currently available on Amazon in an immediately downloadable version, or the 520-page Trade Paperback edition. In anticipation of fan demand and COVID 19 production and delivery delays, students hoping to have physical books on hand for upper level film and music classes in which Docs That Rock, Music That Matters is required reading, desiring physical books rather than digital downloads, should place their paperback orders now, to be sure to receive them in time for school. Fans wanting the book and anyone else wanting to order the book for holiday gift-giving, should also place their orders now.


Harvey Kubernik in the new "Music Connection" magazine tells the world about the October 2020 publication of a new book "Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories" by author Michael Posner. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-interview-with-author-of-leonard-cohen-untold-stories/


John Van Hamersveld "Crazy World Ain't It" has secured a October 10th Los Angeles screening virtual event. The film will open November 18th at the Laemmle Theater Playhouse 17 in Pasadena, CA. Harvey Kubernik appeared as an interview subject and in the trailer for the Chris Sibley & David Tourje-directed short documentary titled John Van Hamersveld: Crazy World Ain't It that had its World Premiere on February 6th 2019 at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. "Harvey, thanks for being a part of our movie. Your take on the Pinnacle Dance Concerts in Los Angeles 1967-1968 was great!" - John Van Hamersveld. Van Hamersveld designed the iconic Endless Summer visual image and album covers for The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, the Beach Boys, and Blondie. Meanwhile, you may view audience and fellow artist’s reactions at the Short Film Festival in Toronto to get an idea of what to expect in the Los Angeles, Oct 10th Crazy World Ain’t It virtual screening.


Ugly Things magazine this week parades Harvey Kubernik and friends salute to Chris Hillman, a founding member of The Byrds. Read the 20,000 words at: http://ugly-things.com/chris-hillmans-time-between-my-life-as-a-byrd-burrito-brother-and-beyond-autobiography-due/


This week's Music Connection magazine presents a 2003 interview Harvey Kubernik condusted with bassist/songwriter Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones. His 30 year journey with the band is examined at https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-interview-with-bill-wyman-of-the-rolling-stones/.


Music Connection magazine just exhibited Harvey Kubernik's multiple voice narrative 10,000 word text on Byrds' co-founder/bassist Chris Hillman.The article was subsequently picked up and displayed as a front page Google News! entry. Hillman's autobiography is due in November.


FORGOTTEN HITS, Sunday, September 13, 2020. While Harvey's books are frequently praised on this devoted and passionate website, he acknowledges the efforts of Ed Sullivan's 1948-1971 Sunday night television Show. He changed the frame game. Watch the Ed Sullivan Show - Season 8, Episode 9 - Novenmber 20, 1955: Bo Diddley, Laverne Baker, The Five Keys, Jack Carter, Ted Lewis: "Dr Jive's Rhythm... You'll have to scroll down to read Kent Kotal's update on Kubernik's latest book, Docs That Rock, Music That Matters, but it's well-worth the scroll!


Pacifica Performance Showcase - KPFK 90.7 FM Friday, 2:30-3:00 pm (PST). Listen Live at KPFK-FM (90.7) and simulcast globally on computer at kpfk.org, as host Donna Walker interviews Harvey Kubernik about his new book, Docs That Rock, Music That Matters (Part 2). If you missed Part 1, (and possibly Part 2, as well), they will be available in "Audio Archives" on kpfk.org to "Play" or "Download" for approximately two months. Just scroll down to date and time, for Part 1, go to Friday, 9/4/20, 2:30-3:00 pm, (PST), and for Part 2, go to Friday, 9/11/20, 2:30-3:00 pm, (PST). Docs That Rock, Music That Matters is available in trade paperback and ebook editions at amazon.com. Learn more at otherworldcottageindustries.com/TRAILERS%20AND%20WIDGETS.html.



The Doors "Morrison Hotel" is set for a 50th anniversary edition on October 9th. Read Harvey Kubernik's story on the album and his interviews with Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore on the original 1970 issued LP at cavehollywood.com/the-doors-morrison-hotel. Also displayed this week on cavehollywood.com is Harvey Kubernik's memoir essay on Elton John's debut at the Troubadour club in West Hollywood 50 years ago this week. cavehollywood.com/elton-john-his-united-states-debut-at-doug-westons-troubadour-august-25-1970/.


The Doors’ ‘Morrison Hotel’: 50th Anniversary Edition Due October 9th was just announced on www.bestclassicbands.com. The news story touting the album also exhibits a very long interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with Ray Manzarek in 2010 where they discuss the entire catalog of the Doors.


We know you love Buffalo Springfield. And if you really want a words-eye-view expedition of the band's history like you've never read before, we suggest devoting some time to Harvey Kubernik's examination of their legacy at http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2020/08/review-whats-that-sound-buffalo.html.


This week on www.cavehollywood.com Harvey Kubernik touts the Amazon Music campaign [RE] DISCOVER artist catalog of Bob Marley, touts Marley's "Who Shot The Sheriff?" on Netflix's original Remastered series, and dialogues with Marley scholar, Roger Steffens.


https://www.bestclassicbands.com on Friday, August 14, 2020 spotlighted Harvey Kubernik's 2007 interview with record producer Bob Johnston on Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen as their featured article.


Publisher Jim Kaplan of "Record Collector News" magazine has scheduled a September/October issue. Harvey Kubernik has written the cover story on the Rolling Stones' "Goat's Head Soup" deluxe edition as well as a feature on Johnny Cash's new box set out on the Mercury/UMe label. Harvey also examines the Cash and Bob Dylan musical relationship like you've probably never read it. The magazine will also spotlight a Kaplan and Kubernik interview on Harvey's new book "Docs That Rock, Music That Matters." Kubernik has headed editorial at the periodical for the last ten years. During September the issue can also be read online at www.recordcollectornews.com.


Want to know more about CSN&Y and their album "Deja Vu?" Check out Harvey Kubernik's manifesto at http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2020/08/50th-anniversary-of-crosby-stills-nash.html

Harvey Kubernik's radio interview on the Neil Young-centric website "Thrasher's Wheat Radio Hour" in an episode "Neil Young turns 70," is re-broadcast with Kubernik discussing his "Neil Young - Heart of Gold" 2015 book. http://thrasherswheat.org/twradio/TWR-Episode-156-on-11-12-15-interview-harvey-kubernik.mp3. Later this week the website displays a 10,000 word memoir text Harvey wrote and assembled about Buffalo Springfield.


In a memoir essay, Harvey Kubernik celebrates the musical legacy of "the Seeds" and their guitarist Jan Savage for Ugly Things Magazine. http://ugly-things.com/jan-savage-1942-2020/
This week's edition (August 15th-22nd) of Rock's Backpages in their new obituary section, asked Harvey to allow his farewell tribute to Seeds' guitarist Jan Savage to all of whom left us in the past week... https://www.rocksbackpages.com. Music Connection magazine also acknowledged Kubernik's homage to Savage. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-remembering-the-seeds-jan-savage/.




Ugly Things magazine has just posted Harvey Kubernik's fully illustrated memoir essay on Charles Bukowski celebrating his 100th birthday. If you're brave and want to rave, take a view at http://ugly-things.com/charles-bukowski-100-years-on.


The 50th anniversary is coming up on Neil Young's landmark album "After The Gold Rush" on August 31st, and the popular and well known Neil Young-centric website, Thrasher's Wheat is displaying Harvey Kubernik's multiple voice essay. Check it out and dig the data at http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2020/08/neil-young-after-gold-rush-50th.html.


Another prized jewel in the Rolling Stones' unmatched catalog is to be ... Kubernik: Interviews Surrounding The Rolling Stones' 1973 Classic "Goats Head Soup" ... So in a way, that maybe in the back of the mind it sets up the song to ... of bridging the gap between “the street and the elite,” Music Connection. In late July and early August Music Connection will exhibit Kubernik's long form articles on the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Doors' "Morrison Hotel," and Harvey Kubernik's deep-dive expedition on the 50th anniversary of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's album "Deja Vu," may now be seen at https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-interviews-with-crosby-still-nash-young. The same site is running Harvey's story on the soon to be published Ready, Steady, Go! The Weekend Starts Here, from BMG Books by music writer and historian Andy Neill.

Our friends at http://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/ previewed the Casey Kasem chapter from Harvey Kubenik's upcoming book (title) that Otherworld Cottage Industries is publishing in August.


Harvey Kubernik's tribute to Country Music Hall of Fame Member and Southern Rock Legend Charlie Daniels who passed away on July 6th is published on http://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com. A longer version of the text can also be read at https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-interview-with-charlie-daniels-on-recording-with-bob-dylan-and-leonard-cohen/ and the respected Bob Dylan website Expecting Rain implemented Harvey Kubernik's "Music Connection" tribute to multi-instrumentalist Charlie Daniels, who appeared on three Dylan albums. Reader James Cushing supplied the link and it's cited at www.expectingrain.com.


Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik's 2012 book A Perfect Haze: The Illustrated History of the Monterey International Pop Festival is a bibliography entry in author Oliver Craske's Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar published spring of 2020 by Hachette Books.

Saturday, July 11, marked the 100th birthday of Stephen Wise' Temple Founding Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin. On the occasion of Rabbi Zeldin’s second yahrzeit (January 2020), Senior Rabbi Emeritus Eli Herscher and Milken Community Schools Past President Metuka Benjamin spoke with author Harvey Kubernik to remember their colleague and friend. This fascinating new profile recounts how Rabbi Zeldin worked with Wise's founding generation and his colleagues to build a lasting Wise community. Please visit the website with Harvey's interview at Eyes On Wise - Stephen Wise Temple.

The July 2020 Record Collector News magazine is out. Charlie Parker on the front cover. Harvey Kubernik articles on Frank Zappa, Flo & Eddie and The Association. It can also be read at www.recordcollectornews.com.

An expanded version of Harvey Kubernik's story on the new Frank Zappa box set on the Mothers 1970 is now on cavehollywood.com/frank-zappa's-celebrated-1970-mothers-lineup The new issue of Record Collector News magazine is out this week. An edited portion of the Kubernik Zappa text, with his archive interviews Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, is published along with Harvey's feature on Association member Russ Giguere and his autobiography. Coming this week in cavehollywood.com Harvey does a lengthy look at the just released Johnny Cash Mercury/UMe box set and also examines the Cash and Bob Dylan relationship. Article includes Kubernik's 1975 interview with Cash.

Harvey Kubernik's story on the SOFA Entertainment/UMe "Ed Sullivan Show" YouTube music announcement on Sullivan's influential television series first displayed on cavehollywood.com is now re-printed on forgottenthits60s.blogspot.com, on their June 25, 2020 post.

Harvey Kubernik investigates the new Frank Zappa "The Mothers 1970" box set this week at Music Connection. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-interviews-with-volman-and-kaylan-on-frank-zappa/.

THIS JUST IN! The June 2020 issue of the Midwest Book Reviews online magazine Wisconsin Bookwatch, features a review of Harvey Kubernik's book, The Doors Summers Gone, published by Otherworld Cottage Industries. "Impressively informative and a simply fascinating and meticulously detailed read from cover to cover, "The Doors Summer's Gone" is a 'must' for the legions of Doors fans and certain to be an immediate and enduringly popular addition to both community and academic library American Popular Music History collections. It should be noted for personal reading lists that "The Doors Summer's Gone" is also readily available in a digital book format (Kindle, $9.99)."

JUNE 13, 2020: Cavehollywood.com celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead's Workingman's Dead with an appreciation of the album by Harvey Kubernik which incorporates his 1976 encounter and interview with the groups's co-founder Jerry Garcia at cavehollywood.com/grateful-dead-workingmans-dead-50th-anniversary-deluxe-edition.

In June, Harvey Kubernik penned a book jacket endorsement for author Michael Posner's new book on Leonard Cohen that Simon & Schuster, Canada will be publishing this fall 2020, Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years. And we've just learned that Harvey Kubernik's 1997 interview with Ravi Shankar is quoted by journalist Joe Livernois in "A Mystic Takes the Stage," in the January edition of voicesofmontereybay.com.

The expanded cavehollywood.com website debuted with Harvey Kubernik's interview with director/producer Allan Arkush who reminisces about his movie Rock N' Roll High School, starring the Ramones, now celebrating a 40th anniversary with a just-issued new DVD edition. cavehollywood,com/producer-director-allan-arkush. Cavehollywood.com is also celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead's Workingman's Dead with an appreciation of the album by Harvey Kubernik which incorporates his 1976 encounter and interview with the groups's co-founder Jerry Garcia at cavehollywood.com/grateful-dead-workingmans-dead-50th-anniversary-deluxe-edition.

The new Music Connection spotlights Harvey Kubenik's interview with Emmy-award winning director/producer Allan Arkush and the 40th anniversary of his movie on the Ramones, Rock 'N' Roll High School. Arkush and Kubernik in their dialogue also discuss Jimi Hendrix, Roger Corman, Bill Graham and Martin Scorsese. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-interview-with-director-producer-allan-arkush/. And now, Music Connection has displayed Harvey Kubernmik's Interviews with Legends as the Two-Part Epix documentary broadcast about Laurel Canyon music legends approaches.

During the week of May 16th-23rd, Harvey Kubernik's 30,000 word multi-voice narrative on Laurel Canyon's musical legacy will debut on www.cavehollywood.com. Harvey served as a consultant in 2019-2020 on a new 2-part documentary Laurel Canyon: A Place In Time directed by Alison Ellwood. Laurel Canyon: A Place In Time debuts on cable television Premium network EPIX that will be broadcast on Sunday, May 31st at 10 p.m., and concludes the following Sunday, June 7th at 10 p.m. A selection of Kubernik interviews with veterans of Laurel Canyon will be exhibited on www.cavehollywood.com: Micky Dolenz, John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, Johnny Echols, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Richie Furay, Don Randi, Guy Webster, Michelle Phillips, John Mayall, Danny Hutton, Graham Nash, Henry Diltz, and Nurit Wilde. An edited version of the Kubernik text interviews will also be displayed the last week of May in the US on musicconnection.com and UK's Shindig! magazine at www.shindig-magazine.com. Harvey's Canyon of Dreams The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon is currently touted on www.jonimitchell.com. "Graham Nash reflects on life with Joni and describes writing the song Our House. Slash, a child of the Canyon, reveals Joni was a close family friend. Zoe Scott recalls her conversation with Joni upon meeting her in 2008. And more!"

Read Harvey Kubernik's story in Music Connection magazine on Miles Davis and his "Complete Birth of the Cool" anniversary edition and the new Ralph Nelson documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool. https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-miles-davis-and-birth-of-the-cool/.

On Thursday April 23rd, forgottenhits.com noted the passing of musician, author, deejay and television broadcaster Ian Whitcomb. Site owner Kent Kotal displayed Harvey Kubernik's comments on Ian Whitcomb. "He was always a delightful and informative interview subject. Ian always provided his Pasadena-based archive and library for research. I passed his Tin Pan Alley and vaudeville test. That was a tough one. I last saw Ian in 2019 at a memorial service for another beloved musicologist, Gary Schneider. They had deejay shifts back to back at www.luxuriamusic.com. Ian's last words to me were, "Thanks for putting me in your books. But young lad, don't call me or email me about psychedelic music, Jimi Hendrix or the Beatles. Besides, I've got a casual booked this week."

The April 5, 2020 edition of Kent Kotal's www.forgottenhits.com featured Harvey Kubernik's tribute to singer/songwriter Bill Withers. It can be viewed at the popular portal at: forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com.

Cavehollywood.com in the first week of April 2020 spotlights Harvey Kubernik's examination of Johnny Cash's recordings in the eighties on the Mercury Records now reissued on the Mercury/Ume label. Text includes Harvey's 1975 interview with Cash done for the now defunct "Melody Maker," as well as current century interviews he conducted with author Robert Hilburn and record producer Rick Rubin. http://cavehollywood.com/johnny-cash-the-mercury-records-years-1986-1991/ (Harvey's Cave Hollywood article is also touted this week on www.forgottenhits.com.

Harvey Kubernik on the Shindig! magazine website, https://www.shindig-magazine.com/?p=3504 on Friday, March 20th examined and touts the landmark UK music 1963-1967 series "Ready Steady Go!" Andrew Loog Oldham and Michael Lindsay-Hogg were interviewed by Harvey for this memoir essay.

The April/May issue of "Record Collector News" magazine will have Harvey Kubernik's feature article on the Association's Russ Giguere and his autobiography Along Comes The Association: Beyond Folk Rock and Three-Piece Suits, co--written by Ashley Wren Collins and published by Rare Bird Books. The foreword is penned by David Geffen.

ABKCO is celebrating the legacy of Bobby Womack this month with the release of lyric videos for four of his most notable efforts from the ‘80s. This March 4th, which would have been Bobby's 76th birthday. ABKCO will be releasing Official Lyric Videos for “So Many Sides of You” and “Secrets” across all streaming services. One week later, “Where Do We Go From Here” and “Just My Imagination” will follow. All four of these tracks are Womack originals and were released as part of his hugely successful 1981 album, The Poet. Secrets (Bobby Womack, Jim Ford) and So Many Sides Of You (Bobby Womack, Jim Ford). Harvey Kubernik in a 2014 Billboard magazine article wrote a tribute to Bobby Womack that can be read at Some Kind of Wonderful: Remembering Bobby Womack.

Read Harvey Kubernik's story on the just released Cream "Goodbye Tour Live 1968" box set now out from the UMe record label on the Cave Hollywood website.

During March 2020 Music Connection and Harvey Kubernik celebrated the 50th anniversary of Carole King's debut solo album "Writer." 1971 marks the 50th anniversary of Carole King's landmark "Tapestry" album. Harvey interviewed some melodic friends and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees discussing King's tunes and recordings. In 2008, Harvey penned the liner notes to deluxe edition of "Tapestry," issued on the Epic/Ode/Legacy record label, a division of Sony BMG Music Entertainment.

The April issue of "Shindig!" magazine # 102 is also publishing an edited version of his Carole King/Brill Building print expedition. The May "Shindig!" is a cover story on the 1967-1968 musical world of Eric Burdon. Harvey has supplied his 2007 archive interview with Burdon for the periodical.

In Music Connection, Harvey has also documented the upcoming 50th anniversary of the epic George Harrison and Ravi Shankar birthed charity event "The Concert for Bangladesh" and the subsequent live recording Grammy winning Album of the Year for 1972. Text includes Kubernik's own archive interviews with Harrison, Shankar, Jim Keltner, Steven Van Zandt, along with members of the Byrds and the Doors. Music Connection this week exhibits Harvey Kubernik archive 1997 interviews with Ravi Shankar and George Harrison and examines the landmark 1971 Concert for Bangladesh charity endeavor in this manifesto. https://www.musicconnection.com/celebrating-the-100th-birthday-of-indian-music-legened-ravi-shankar.

In his ongoing online series of articles in "Monterey Rocks," writer Joe Livernois quotes Harvey Kubernik in the January 2, 2020 edition A Mystic Takes the Stage--Voices of Monterey Bay. Harvey and his brother Kenneth Kubernik wrote the 2012 book A Perfect Haze: The Illustrated History of the Monterey International Pop Festival.

The March issue (#101) of the UK-based Shindig! magazine has a six-page tribute to our departed musical visionary Chris Darrow by Martin Ruddock which incorporates archive interviews Harvey Kubernik conducted with Chris over the last few decades. The Shindig! tribute is titled "Under His Own Disguise." Music Connection magazine on January 23rd displayed Harvey's heartfelt tribute and appreciation of the multi-instrumentalist and Inland Empire musical sage, Chris Darrow, who left the physical planet earlier in January. James Taylor, Linda Ronsdadt, Leonard Cohen, and Ben Harper are among many who owe him a great debt for helping and guiding their very early recording careers. Find on www.musicconnection.com/chris-darrow-an-appreciation.
A modified and newly expanded version of Harvey's reflection on Darrow's musical mission will also be published in the spring issue of "Ugly Things" magazine, out in mid-April

Harvey Kubernik was recently interviewed by best-selling author and biographer Michael Posner for Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years that Simon & Schuster will publish in hardcover on October 6, 2020. It’s the first of three Cohen volumes Posner is doing for the company. https://www.leonardcohenforum.com. Posner’s work includes biographies on Mordecai Richler and Anne Murray. Posner is a former managing editor of the Financial Times of Canada and spent sixteen years as senior writer with The Globe and Mail. In 2014 Kubernik wrote the acclaimed Leonard Cohen Everybody Knows which has been published in six foreign language editions. Read about the Cohen and Kubernik literary and musical endeavors archived on the official forum of Leonardcohenfiles.com and cohencentric.com.

The week of February 18th-25th, Harvey Kubernik's story on the feature documentary "Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band" is online at cavehollywood.com/once-were-brothers-robbie-robertson-and-the-band. The text incorporates interviews Harvey conducted with Robbie Robertson in 1975 for "Crawdaddy" magazine and in 2017 for "Record Collector News" magazine.

Harvey Kubernik on the Cave Hollywood website during February 10th announced the upcoming March 27th celebration of the 50th anniversary re-mastered edition of Jimi Hendrix album "Band of Gypsys." http://cavehollywood.com/songs-for-groovy-children-the-fillmore-east-concerts-by-jimi-hendrix-now-out/.

The Stephen Wise Temple in Los Angeles in their Eyes on Wise Newsletter and website are acknowledging and observing the second yahrzeit of founder Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin. Harvey Kubernik was invited by Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback to interview Senior Rabbi Emeritus Eli Herscher and Founding President of Milken Community High School Metuka Benjamin.
Remembering Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin: New Gallery, Interviews Showcase Visionary Legacy On Friday, January 31st, Wise observed the second yahrzeit of beloved visionary Founding Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin (z”l). The service included a browse into a new gallery in Plotkin Chapel Study (formerly Rabbi Zeldin’s office) showcasing his remarkable life.

Recently, author Harvey Kubernik (1967: A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love) sat down with Senior Rabbi Emeritus Eli Herscher and Metuka Benjamin to discuss Rabbi Zeldin’s life and legacy for a new article in the Rabbi Zeldin archive. the Stephen WISE TEMPLE EYES ON WISE WEEKLY

In 2020, Harvey Kubernik served as Consultant on a new 2-part documentary Laurel Canyon: A Place In Time. Alison Ellwood is the director who helmed the History of the Eagles. Executive produced by Frank Marshall, The Kennedy/Marshall Company; Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey, Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television; Craig Kallman and Mark Pinkus, Warner Music Group; Alex Gibney, Stacey Offman and Richard Perello, Jigsaw Productions; and Jeff Pollack. The film is produced by Ryan Suffern, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, and Erin Edeiken, Jigsaw Productions. Laurel Canyon: A Place In Time will have a world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas on Friday, March 20th. Premium television network EPIX will broadcast it on Sunday, May 31st at 10 p.m., and conclude the following Sunday, June 7th at 10 p.m.
Check out the new trailer at https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/laurel-canyon-documentary-trailer-974122/?fbclid=IwAR1ZWDqsmAZ1-8mJWCcIvwRBER2WD1xlyH284FU0AULXFiYgGJxae_rs76A.

During 2020 Harvey Kubernik is the consulting producer and writer on a music documentary examining legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Del Shannon for the Stars North production company. Todd Thompson and Mark Bentley are directing and producing. Dan Bourgoise, founder and former owner of the landmark Bug Music publishing company is Executive Producer. Bourgoise oversees the Del Shannon estate and for 30 years Shannon’s best friend and personal manager. Please visit www.starsnorth.com.

Read Harvey Kubernik's story on acclaimed artist and graphic designer John Van Hamersveld in the new Music Connection at https://www.musicconnection.com/art-john-van-hamersveld-era-cool In 2019 Harvey Kubernik appeared as an interview subject in the Chris Sibley & David Tourje-directed short documentary entitled John Van Hamersveld: Crazy World Ain't It that had its World Premiere on February 6th 2019 at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. It’s headed to the Miami International Film Festival for the 2020 season and is a selection for the 2020 Toronto Documentary Short Film Festival in spring. View the trailer at https://vimeo.com/312221882. Van Hamersveld designed the iconic Endless Summer visual image and album covers for The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, the Beach Boys, and Blondie. “Van Hamersveld is discussed by music historian Kubernik, artist Shepard Fairey, surfers Shaun Thompson and Jeff Ho, artist Louise Sandhous, designer Nina Palomba to name a few starring as themselves in the documentary, we get to hear their tales, their version of the hero worship. The seer-like calmness of Hamersveld to freeze the time in his frames regardless of their age and/or culture is awe-inspiring, to say the least!”—Indie Shorts Magazine.

And see Harvey Kubernik's retrospective article on Ray Manzarek of the Doors now featured on the Music Connection website https://www.musicconnection.com/the-doors-break-on-thru-a-celebration-of-ray-manzarek/.

Harvey has written the next cover story for the February issue of "Record Collector News" magazine on the new music documentary, "Melody Makers," written, directed and produced by Leslie Ann Coles which chronicles the legacy of the now defunct UK "Melody Maker" music weekly and spotlights the periodical's 1965-1975 photography of Barrie Wentzell. Kubernik wrote weekly for the newspaper from 1974-1980. Harvey also interviews singer/songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan for the next RCN. www.recordcollectornews.com

Music Connection is also earmarking an extensive career retrospective article with The Band's Robbie Robertson culled from a series of interviews Harvey conducted with Robbie from 1975-2017. In February the new feature documentary, "Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band" premieres in New York and Hollywood, before a national opening on February 28th. https://www.musicconnection.com/new-documentary-on-robbie-robertson-and-the-band-out-soon/

Scheduled for the April or May issue of UK-based "Shindig!" magazine is Harvey's multi-voice narrative story and appreciation of Indian musician, Ravi Shankar, sitar player and composer. Norah Jones, Anoushka Shankar, Dhani Harrison and Phillip Glass will be paying tribute for 100th birthday concerts.
Kubernik's multi-page examination and tribute to Shankar will feature Harvey's 1997 interviews with Shankar, George Harrison as well as his own archive interviews with John Densmore, Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek of the Doors, drummer Jim Keltner, Chris Darrow, Ram Dass, Deepak Chopra, the Byrds' Roger McGuinn, Billy Preston, Henry Diltz, Kim Fowley, and Steven Van Zandt. The text spotlights the upcoming 50th anniversary of "The Concert for Bangladesh."

2019

In the December 2019 issue #98 of Shindig! magazine in Martin Ruddock’s Canyon Fever multi-page story on the late sixties music of Laurel Canyon, Harvey Kubernik is singled out for thanks in the article credits.

The National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress is now exhibiting Harvey Kubernik's guest essay on "The Band." See it HERE.

Harvey Kubernik's tribute to American spiritual leader, psychedelic explorer, author, deejay, counterculture icon Ram Dass who died at age 88 in late December is now up on https://www.musicconnection.com › Latest.

The well-regarded music website BESTCLASSICBANDS.COM on December 18th posted Harvey's extensive story on the Doors incorporating selections of interviews Harvey conducted with band co-founder Ray Manzarek during 1974-2013. Check it out at BEST CLASSIC BANDS.COM.

On Saturday, December 21st, 7-9:00 am (PST), hear music historian and author, Harvey Kubernik discuss the musical career of Eric Clapton with Dr. Robert Klapper, M.D. on ESPN Radio (710 on your AM dial in Los Angeles), on his "Weekend Warrior" program. Universal Music Enterprises on February 7, 2020 will be releasing the 4-CD, special edition of Cream’s Goodbye Tour Live 1968. Kubernik was a previous guest on orthopedic surgeon Klapper's heralded weekly radio show discussing his 2015 book on Leonard Cohen Everybody Knows and his 2018 The Story of The Band From Big Pink to The Last Waltz. Hear the archived first hour at ESPN AUDIO, Weekend Warrior [hr1]> Doc opens talking about coming together in sports, art and medicine. Doc uses examples from the rock band Cream and former Yankee's owner George Steinbrenner. Doc welcomes rock historian and author Harvey Kubernik who elaborates extensively about the players and history surrounding the Cream era. The Weekend Warrior Clinic opens for listeners. "To understand the anatomy of a compelling sports-talk genre radio show that’s really much more than advertised, schedule an appointment with Dr. Robert Klapper." ---Tom Hoffarth, Los Angeles Daily News.

The JERUSALEM JAZZ & BLUES HALL OF FAME in Israel on their website is now exhibiting a Harvey Kubernik profile and multi-narrative article on guitarist/songwriter Michael Bloomfield. Click on the "Beatniks" page listed on the header to discover the Jewish Roots of American Popular Music. Harvey's piece on Bloomfield has been picked and listed on a Bob Dylan-themed website www.expectingrain.com.

Harvey Kubernik and some longtime friends and lovers of the Kinks hail the new retail release of the classic Kink's album Arthur Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire on the Cave Hollywood website, where you'll also find Kubernik's 5,000 word salute to the Ventures, the world's number one instrumental group of all time with 100 million sales, an interview Harvey conducted with the band's co-founder, Don Wilson, at http://cavehollywood.com/walk-dont-run-60-years-of-the-ventures. In December the Ventures will be honored with an exhibit Walk, Don't Run: 60 Years Of The Ventures at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, CA. December 7, 2019-August 3, 2020. The official Ventures website theventures.com is also displaying the Kubernik text in conjunction with the Recording Academy Grammy Museum.

Harvey Kubernik, on the request of Shindig! magazine in the U.K., has written a 1,500 word tribute to the late photographer Terry O'Neill who passed away in November, for its February 2020 issue. O'Neill took the very early 1963 and '64 iconic photos of the Beatles and Rolling Stones, the cover of David Bowie's "Diamond Dogs" album, and landmark images of Elton John, Frank Sinatra and Steve McQueen.

Music Connection has asked Harvey to chronicle the Rolling Stones' 1970 movie documentary "Gimme Shelter" and examine the 50th anniversary of the Stones' notorious concert event at the Altamont Raceway. Kubernik implements his own conducted catalog interviews with Graham Nash, Chris Hillman, director Albert Maysles, actor/poet Harry E. Northup, and Tony Funches, who headed security for the Stones' November '69 U.S. tour, now displayed at www.musicconnection.com.

In 2019 Harvey Kubernik appears as an interview subject in the David Tourje-directed short documentary entitled John Van Hamersveld: Crazy World Ain't It that had its World Premiere on February 6th 2019 at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. It's just been honored as an Official Selection at the 2020 Toronto Documentary Short Film Festival in spring. “Thanks for being a part of our movie. Your take on the Pinnacle Dance Concerts in Los Angeles 1967-1968 was great!” -John Van Hamersveld. Van Hamersveld is discussed and examined by visual artist Shepard Fairey, world surf champion Shaun Thompson, Jeff Ho of the Zephyr Surf Team, designer Louise Sandhaus, Jim Fitzpatrick, Steve Olson, Gary Wong, Carole Caroompas, Chaz Bojorquez, and Quentin “Shplinton” Thomas. The movie has just been honored as a selection for the 2020 Toronto Documentary Short Film Festival in spring. Van Hamersveld designed the iconic Endless Summer visual image and album covers for The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane, Blondie, KISS and the 2005 Cream reunion concert.

Harvey Kubernik's article on The Band and the recently released 50th anniversary of their epic second LP, "The Band", reissued in expanded edition on Capitol/UMe Records, is exhibited on www.musicconnection.com. Text features excerpts of 1975 and 2017 interviews Harvey conducted with Robbie Robertson.

The National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. recently asked Harvey Kubernik to pen an essay on the landmark album "The Band," now celebrating a 50th anniversary edition in 2019.

The National Recording Registry is an annual list from the Library of Congress where twenty-five recordings are named to the Registry every year. Each of these recordings has been chosen by the Librarian of Congress, with input from the National Recording Preservation Board. Each of these recordings have been deemed so vital to the history of America—aesthetically, culturally or historically that they demand permanent archiving in the nation’s library.

In November of 2006, Harvey Kubernik was a featured speaker discussing audiotape preservation and archiving at special hearings called by The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. that were held in Hollywood, California.

The December Issue of Record Collector News Magazine has a cover story by Harvey Kubernik on Jimi Hendrix that spotlights his just issued Songs for Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts. Harvey Kubernik has just signed a book deal with Sterling/Barnes and Noble publishers for a large format size illustrated text on Jimi Hendrix, Harvey's fourth title with the company this decade. The tome is scheduled for last quarter 2020 publication. Harvey, who witnessed the Jimi Hendrix Experience live in 1969 at the Newport '69 pop festival in Southern California, was interviewed for The BBC World Wide Radio Service on their News Hour programme during a September 19, 2005 segment discussing the musical legacy of Jimi Hendrix acknowledging the 35th anniversary of the musicians passing in 1970. Kubernik has participated in previous Hendrix book endeavors this century. He was interviewed for 2005’s Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix by Charles R. Cross (Hyperion), contributed a chapter on Hendrix for 2017’s Hendrix: A Visual Documentary by Gillian G. Gaar (Voyageur Press), and his A Perfect Haze book on the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival sourced in her bibliography. Harvey was also quoted in 2006’s Jimi Hendrix: The Man, the Magic, the Truth (The Intimate Story of a Betrayed Musical Legend by Sharon Lawrence (Pan MacMillan). In addition, brothers Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik have inked a book deal for a Rolling Stones 1963-1973 era book. Slated for December 2020 publication. More details on their literary expedition in January.

During November Cave Hollywood displays Harvey Kubernik's memoir essay on John Mayall. Text touts Mayall's new autobiography and John's relationship with Laurel Canyon. View it now at Cavehollywood.com.

Author Lonn Friend in his concert review of Lana Del Rey at her Aragon Ballroom booking in Chicago implemented a Harvey Kubernik quote on Lana's new album. Concert Review: Lana Del Rey Brings ‘Norman Fucking Rockwell!’ Tour To Sold Out Aragon Ballroom

Harvey's 12,000 word multi-voice narrative on Janis Joplin is now displayed on Music Connection magazine Kubernik's essay chronicles Joplin's musical life and coincides with the U.S. theatrical release from Broadway to cinema screen November 4th-11th of "A Night With Janis Joplin" playing in national venues. Janis is portrayed by Mary Bridget Davies, Tony Award® Nominee for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical. A Night with Janis Joplin, written by Randy Johnson and directed by Emmy Award® Winner David Horn and Randy Johnson.

Harvey Kubernik's 1995 article on Motown Records founder Berry Gordy No Town Like Motown: Berry Gordy: A Conversation with Mr. Motown is included in The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader published by Oxford University Press, edited by David Brackett.
It is a collection of selections from sources that include mainstream and specialized magazines, newspapers, scholarly journals, interviews, and autobiographies of musicians and other music industry insiders. Brackett is a Professor of Musicology at McGill University in Canada.
Kubernik joins a lineup of LeRoi Jones, Arnold Shaw, Johnny Otis, Jerry Wexler, David Ritz, Richard Cromelin, Paul Nelson, Jim Delehant, Phyl Garland, Andrew Sarris, Richard Goldstein, Ellen Willis, Ralph J. Gleason, Nat Hentoff, Penny Valentine, Greil Marcus, Ben Fong-Torres, Nelson George, John Mendelsohn, Cameron Crowe, and Robert Hilburn.

We're delighted to report that Allen Showalter is republishing selected entries from his former Leonard Cohen site, Cohencentric, on his personal site, AllanShowalter.com. He' just (re)posted "Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows by Harvey Kubernik – A Delight For Cohen Fans. Exceptional praise for this Kubernik book title. Now out in 8 foreign language editions.

And now, here are some late October and November literary and music articles penned by Harvey you might relish.

The November issue of "Record Collector News" magazine is out with the Kubernik cover story on the 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones "Let It Bleed" which features a 2008 interview with Merry Clayton and the "Gimme Shelter" recording session. Read it online as well at www.recordcollectornews.com.

The November the next "Ugly Things" magazine will be out and features a Kubernik 10,000 word multi-voice study of Michael Bloomfield and touts the new book "Guitar King: Michael Bloomfield's Life In the Blues" by David Dann. PDF available from "Ugly Things" upon request.

We're pleased to announce that in November 2019, a Harvey Kubernik's 1996 music and recording-themed interview with poet/author Allen Ginsberg has just been published in Conversations With Allen Ginsberg, edited by David Stephen Calonne for the University Press of Mississippi in their Literary Conversations Series.
Harvey also interviewed Ginsberg in the Los Angeles Times about Ginsberg's Ballsd of the Skeletons, a little Halloween ditty from Allen Ginsberg, Paul McCartney, and Phillip Glass, first published in 1995, and recorded in 1996, a year before Ginsberg died
During November Music Connection magazine displays two long form memoir pieces from Harvey on Janis Joplin and The Band. Joplin is scheduled for late this week, and The Band in mid-month. (see www.musicconnection.com.)


www.cavehollywood.com this week hosts the Harvey Kubernik story on Country Music and his archive interviews with Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell, Emmylou Harris and Chris Darrow. During October the site exhibited his long form retrospective on The Ramones and their "End of the Century" album. A 40th anniversary product is planned for early 2020.

www.rocksbackpages.com this week showcases a Michael Simmons group narrative "Bob Dylan Turns 70" originally published in "The L.A. Weekly" in May 2011. Harvey and other authors and musicians quoted in the text. Simmons also cites Harvey's acclaimed "Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon." It's a subscription outlet so we can't provide an entry pass word. But it's out there in the universe.

November also brings a novel by Travis Edward Pike titled Changeling's Return with an introduction by Harvey Kubernik. in which he writes, "In his portrayal of heathen ritual, Pike explores the light and dark spaces between the equinoxes and solstices, and introduces us to the colorful shadow people spotlighted in his ambitious, nutritious, peripatetic out-of-body adventure, not preaching, but teaching and reaching listeners and readers with his expressive musical and literary style. In Changeling’s Return, “songs are spells, going ‘round and ‘round in your head, even when there’s no music to hear.”

November and December will also bring some news on Harvey's film and documentary endeavors.

Harvey Kubernik has signed a book deal with Sterling/Barnes and Noble for a coffee table-size illustrated text on Jimi Hendrix, now slated for October 2020 publication.

The September-October Record Collector News magazine, out in mid-August, will have Harvey Kubernik’s cover story on Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue box set and 1975 tour, and a feature on Quentin Tarentino’s Once Upon a Time in America). You can read it online as well in mid-August at www.recordcollectornews.com. The following RCN issue will spotlight Harvey’s cover story on “Gimme Shelter” from the Rolling Stones’s Let It Bleed album which celebrates a 50th anniversary in November. "Gimme Shelter" is being played nightly as an encore on the Rolling Stones' summer 2019 US tour. Harvey also previews the upcoming expanded 50th anniversary retail releases of the Beatles' "Abbey Road" album.

www.bestclassicbands.com will display Kubernik's story on vocalist Merry Clayton and the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter" recording that was overdubbed and mixed in Los Angeles when the band was renting a house in Laurel Canyon.

October 1, 2019: Music Connection magazine will exhibit Kubernik's complete article on the 50th anniversary of the Doors' The Soft Parade, celebrating a 50th anniversary this month.

OTHERWORLD COTTAGE REMINDER: Harvey Kubernik's THE DOORS: SUMMER'S GONE, published by Otherworld Cottage Industries in a trade paperback edition, a half-century chronicle and examination by author and music historian Harvey Kubernik chronicling Harvey's personal and product relationship with the legendary band is available on Amazon. Since attending a Doors’ concert in Southern California during 1968, over the next five decades Kubernik interviewed three members of the band and conducted dozens of interviews with musicians who shared the stage with the Doors, studio engineers, producers, filmmakers, poets, literary professors, spiritual leaders, record company presidents, deejays, fans, friends, and intimate insiders about the Doors’ still ongoing musical influence and cultural impact. Kubernik’s multi-voice narrative offers a revealing words-eye-view and details the Doors and their audio and filmic legacy like never before. Rare and never seen photos of the Doors by Henry Diltz, Tom Gundelfinger O’Neil, Heather Harris, Kurt Ingham, Helie Robertson and archive items from the collection of Ida Miller are also displayed.

Harvey's 2007 and 2014 interviews with the late influential record producer Bob Johnston about his work with Bob Dylan will be displayed during September on BestClassicBands.com.

Text touts the upcoming November 1st release of BOB DYLAN (FEATURING JOHNNY CASH) – TRAVELIN' THRU, 1967 - 1969: THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 15 which unveils 47 previously unreleased Johnston-produced recordings, including outtakes from Dylan's John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline and Self Portrait plus first release of fabled Bob Dylan-Johnny Cash 1969 Nashville studio sessions.

In the October 2019 issue of UK-based Shindig! Magazine, Harvey Kubernik's archive interviews with Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore of the Doors are featured in an article and examination of the Doors' The Soft Parade celebrating a 50th anniversary this October.

GUITAR KING: MICHAEL BLOOMFIELD’S LIFE IN THE BLUES, the new 700-page biography by author David Dann due in November will be the subject of a 12,000 word multi-voice essay Harvey just penned for the next issue of Ugly Things magazine in October. An online version is on displayed now at www.musicconnection.com.

During 2019, Harvey was a feature on-screen interview subject for director Mathew O’Casey for his 90 minute BBC4-TV digital arts channel Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac’s Songbird. The cast includes Christine McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, Christine’s family members, singer/songwriter Nerlina Pallot, Neil Finn, Mike Campbell, Heart’s Nancy Wilson, and producer Richard Dashut. Fleetwood Mac's Songbird Christine McVie will air on 20th Sept at 21.00 on BBC4-TV.

Read Harvey Kubernik's September 2019 interview with the legendary blues musician John Mayall OBE about his new autobiography, Jimi Hendrix and the world of Laurel Canyon via Ugly Things Magazine at http://ugly-things.com/john-mayall-my-life-as-a-bluesman.

Cavehollywood.com just posted the Kubernik examination and multi-voice narrative of the Phil Spector-produced Ramones' "End Of The Century" album, which celebrates a 40th anniversary in February 2020. During September Harvey's article on the Beatles' "Abbey Road" currently celebrating a 50th anniversary edition can be viewed at cavehollywood.com/the-beatles-revisit-abbey-road-with-special-anniversary-releases-september-27th.

Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik’s A Perfect Haze: The Illustrated History of the Monterey International Pop Festival published in 2011 is listed and sourced in the Bibliography of Guitar King: Michael Bloomfield’s Life in the Blues by David Dann, that will be published this fall by the University of Texas Press.

This week's www.forgottenhits.com displays Harvey Kubernik's story on the Rolling Stones' "Out of Time" and the usage of the recording in director/writer Quentin Tarantino's movie "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." The text also implements 2006 and 2018 interviews Harvey conducted with the Rolling Stones' record producer/manager Andrew Loog Oldham who was very involved in two different "Out of Time" sessions in Hollywood and London. See the pdf file here.

Up now on musicconnection.com is Harvey's archive interview with Ian Hunter, bandleader of Mott The Hoople where the singer/songwriter and guitarist discusses David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Leon Russell. Harvey Kubernik penned the appreciation tribute to Rock Doc Pioneer D.A. Pennebaker, now appearing online at Music Connection Magazine. Music Connection Magazine is also featuring Harvey Kubernik’s 10,000 word multi-voice narrative the landmark Gold Star recording studio and co-owner/engineer Stan Ross also touting the August 7th opening of the musical stage play 33 1/3-House of Dreams about Gold Star and Ross world premiering at the San Diego Reparatory Theatre’s Lyceum Stage.


Harvey Kubernik also provided the two page introduction to the September 2019 issue of Goldmine Magazine’s cover story on Motown’s 60th Anniversary Celebration.

The August and September issue of Ugly Things Magazine just published has a multi-page spread penned by Harvey on Tina Turner’s recordings and performances from the sixties and seventies as well as his tribute to writer and satirist Paul Krassner which appears online at www.ugly-things.com. In addition, Harvey also penned a loving tribute memoir reflection to musician and bass player Larry "The Mole" Taylor, a co-founder of Canned Heat, q.v., HERE!

This week, on the Cave Hollywood website, Harvey Kubernik explores the new album by Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul as they embark on a world tour. Harvey's text also includes a Q. and A. with Steven Van Zandt, who he first met in 1975. See it at http://cavehollywood.com/little-steven-and-the-disciples-of-soul-world-tour.

The August 2019 Goldmine Magazine is now on newsstands and in the homes of subscribers. It's a Woodstock issue that has Harvey Kubernik's multi-voice memoir of Neil Young's "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere" album now celebrating a 50th anniversary.

The July/August issue of Record Collector News magazine is now out. Harvey Kubernik's cover story on the landmark Gold Star Recording Studio and a feature Harvey penned on Miles Davis and the 70th anniversary of "The Birth of the Cool" are spotlighted. RCN can also be viewed online at www.recordcollectornews.com.

Daniel Kreps in his obituary/tribute on www.rollingstone.com to guitarist/singer Gary Duncan, co-founder of the pioneering psychedelic rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service quotes a 2007 interview Duncan did with author Harvey Kubernik from the 2012 book A Perfect Haze: The Illustrated History of the Monterey International Pop Festival.

Harrison Smith in his obituary to Duncan in The Washington Post also quoted a prose entry on Quicksilver from Kuberniks book on Monterey '67, q.v. HERE.

A Harvey Kubernik article on Bob Dylan is included in The Bob Dylan Electric Omnibus Volume 1 and 2, now out via Backpages Anthologies in a kindle edition. Rock’s Backpages salutes the greatest of them all with a Dylan e-book anthology, consisting of approximately 210,000 white-hot words in two volumes spanning 50 years of interviews, overviews, reviews, insights, hindsights and sidelights, as written by the greatest names in Dylanology, among them Ian MacDonald, Al Aronowitz, Dave Marsh, Andy Gill, Michael Gray, Paul Williams, Mick Gold, Sylvie Simmons, Mick Farren, Charlie Gillett, Paul Zollo, Charles Shaar Murray, Michael Simmons, Richard Williams, Mick Brown, Phil Sutcliffe, Steve Turner, Nick Kent, Martin Colyer, Jon Savage, Nick Hasted, Barney Hoskyns and many more.

In late June, Music Connection magazine displayed two Harvey Kubernik articles on their home page. A 10,000 word multi-voice study of Motown Records and the 60th anniversary of the landmark record label, along with his review of Bob Dylan's "Rolling Thunder Revue" 14-CD box set which implements Harvey's interviews with "RTR" tour members Allen Ginsberg and Roger McGuinn. Check it out at https://www.musicconnection.com.

During June, Harvey wrote a multi-voice narrative biography on the immortal R&B and pop music vocalist stage craft master Jackie Wilson that was utilized by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce for their September activities honoring Wilson at their Hollywood Walk of Fame Star ceremony and is now paosted at www.jackie wilson music.com.

See Harvey's Forgotten Hits tribute to actress and recording artist Peggy Lipton, the Mod Squad "It Girl" who died of Cancer on Saturday, May 11th. Harvey met and encountered Peggy upon a handful of occasions from 1964 – 1982 around Hollywood, California, and this decade interviewed her for his 2012 book A Perfect Haze: The Illustrated History of the Monterey International Pop Festival, and his 2014 book on photographer Guy Webster, Big Shots.

The Bridges Academy, located on Laurel Canyon Boulevard, is a college prep school serving twice-exceptional learners—students who are gifted but who also have learning differences such as Autism, AD/HD, executive functioning challenges, processing deficits, and mild dyslexia. For the Bridges Academy's recent fundraiser, the Kubernik brothers donated a copy of their latest book, The Story of The Band From Big Pink to The Last Waltz, listed in the Academy's auction pamphlet as item # 522, complete with dining and conversation with the brothers who would personally autograph the book, and listed the packages Estimated Value as Priceless. This is the second year in a row that a Kubernik title benefited the school. See the Bridges Academy posting.

Harvey Kubernik was recently filmed as a feature interview subject for the music documentary about Gold Star Recording Studio engineer and co-owner Stan Ross directed by Jonathan Rosenberg. Brian Wilson, Herb Alpert, Richie Furay, Mike Curb, Chris Montez, Nino Tempo, Bill Medley, Steven Van Zandt, Don Randi, Don Peake and David Kessel were among those participating. The musical about Stan Ross and the Gold Star studio, 33 1/3 - House of Dreams, written by Rosenberg and Brad Ross, Stan's son, will be having its World Premiere at the 500 seat Lyceum Theater in San Diego beginning on August 1 and going until August 25th. It will be the opening show of the San Diego Repertory Theater's 44th season. CLICK HERE for an Abreviated History of Harvey and Gold Star Studios.

Ugly Things' Summer Issue will present Harvey's multi-page story on Tina Turner's sixties career with the Ike and Tina Turner Revue. Text will chronicle the epic "River Deep, Mountain High" Phil Spector-produced, Jack Nitzsche-arranged 1966 recording session at the landmark Gold Star Recording Studio in Hollywood.

Issue #50 of Ugly Things magazine is out, and includes the Harvey Kubernik multi-page essays of the Doors' Waiting For The Sun album now enjoying a 50th anniversary journey as well as Harvey's passionate retrospective on Howlin' Wolf and the 60th anniversary of his debut LP Moanin' In The Moonlight.

Harvey's tribute Requiem For A Mensch: Gary Stewart, 1956-2019, is now posted on the Ugly Things website.

The July 2019 issue of Shindig! magazine a UK monthly periodical will publish Harvey's story on Reg Dwight pka Elton John that will focus on his 1965-1969 pre-US stardom that will follow the worldwide theatrical release of the John biopic "Rocketman."

The May/June issue of Record Collector News magazine just published a cover story on Queen penned by Harvey Kubernik and may be read online at www.recordcollectornews.com. Text examines the successful "Bohemian Rhapsody" biopic and incorporates a 1975 interview Harvey conducted with singer Freddie Mercury that was initially published in the now defunct "Melody Maker" UK periodical.

Harvey's profile on singer Al Green and his interview with Green's producer Willie Mitchell can now be read in the April issue of Music Connection magazine. In the current issue, the periodical displays Kubernik's story on the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline and Harvey's interviews with Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones and their restored, remixed and remastered Bridges to Bremen concert film now scheduled to be released on June 21st. And if you missed it, be sure to check out Harvey's March issue of Music Connection feature, Elton John: 50 Years On retrospective.

This month, look for the online Music Connection magazine to display Kubernik's tribute to Motown Records and their 60th anniversary, Harvey interview, Berry Gordy: A Conversation With Mr. Motown, that was initially published in 1995.

Otherworld Cottage Industries published The Doors Summer's Gone, so we are delighted that Harvey shared this quote from an email Robby Krieger, co-founder of The Doors, sent him saying "Reading the book...Very cool!" At Otherworld Cottage, we think Robby Krieger is "Very cool" too, for letting us know. Thanks, Robby!

The Cave Hollywood website is now displaying Harvey's piece on the Vital Vinyl Jazz reissue series the UMe record label is releasing during 2019. In mid-April 2019, both cavehollywood.com and Harvey's tribute to the late and lovable music and record executive Gary Stewart who served at Rhino Entertainment and Apple iTUNES. Harvey also conducted an interview in late April with music lawyer Ben McClane that can now be read at http://cavehollywood.com/music-business-in-10-easy-lessons.

In June Harvey interviewed and profiled East Los Angeles music scholar and author Gene Aguilera. Read it HERE.

In the May 30, 2019 "Variety.com" review of the theatrical release of "Echoes of the Canyon" documentary, "How 'Echo,' '60s Rock Doc of the Moment, Gets Lost in the Canyon," critic Steve Hochman in his review acknowledges and touts "the Harvey Kubernik 2009 tome "Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon."

In the May 23, 2019 issue of "The Los Cruses Sun News" critic Damien Willis examines "Echoes of the Canyon" and also touts the Kubernik book title. "If you're interested in learning more about the Laurel Canyon scene, I'd recommend a fantastic book by Harvey Kubernik called "Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon." It features a foreword by Ray Manzarek of The Doors and an afterword by legendary Laurel Canyon music producer Lou Adler."

NOW COMING IN SPRING, 2020: The Monkees long-awaited coffee table size Monkees book by Monkees' scholar and chief archivist Gary Strobl, photographer Henry Diltz, and authors/music historians Harvey Kubernik and Kenneth Kubernik will be published by Omnibus Press titled The Monkees: From Reel to Real.

Harvey Kubernik's Neil Young Heart of Gold has now been translated and released in a German language version titled Neil Young Heart of Gold: Die Chronik in Bildern.

On the March 20th "Music Connection" magazine website Harvey Kubernik examines "The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus" the Michael Lindsay-Hogg directed 1968 film that will be screening across the US in early April. Harvey's article also includes a 2019 interview with Lindsay-Hogg. The site also displays Harvey's multi-voice narrative "It Happened in Laurel Canyon 50 Years Ago" examining the debut Crosby, Stills and Nash album soon to celebrate a 50th anniversary this spring.

THIS JUST IN! The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's library and their LibGuides at Rock on February 21, 2019 incorporated Harvey Kubernik's 2014 interview with Graham Nash in Record Collector News magazine in their Articles and Reactions to the 1970 Kent State student campus Shootings.

The new issue of "Record Collector News" magazine, features Kubernik's cover story on the Wizard of Laurel Canyon, Frank Zappa. Text chronicles the new 40th anniversary Zappa Records/UMe label retail release of "Zappa In New York" and the upcoming Zappa hologram tour "The Bizarre World of Frank Zappa." "Record Collector News" magazine also publishes Harvey's interview with bassist Pat Campbell on the just released "Good Old Boys Live Drink Up and Go Home" 2-cd Set, a 1975 live recording with Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. The piece implements portions of a 1976 interview Harvey conducted with Jerry. In addition to the print magazine, the stories can be read online at www.recordcollectornews.com.

With the passing of singer/songwriter Scott Walker on March 22, 2019 Forgotten Hits Tuesday This And That edition excerpted a portion of a 2013 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with Howard Kaylan of the Turtles who praised the impact of the epic solo albums Walker created after his stint with the Walker Brothers. A portion of the Kubernik-Kaylan conducted interview for Record Collector News magazine in 2013 was also utilized in writer Richard Sandomir's New York Times Scott Walker obituary on March 26th.

During March 2019, Harvey's literary activities were acknowledged in the March 2019 issue of UK's UNCUT magazine hit store shelves this week with ... All photos are from Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows by Harvey Kubernik. In addition, on March 19, 2019, Duane Allman Chronology Part 8: 2013-2017 cited Harvey in a review of Duane Allman's 7-CD box set 'Skydog: The Duane Allman Anthology culled from a October 31, 2011 Harvey Kubernik's article "Derek And The Dominos' ...

Harvey Kubernik was quoted, along with multi-insrtrumentalist Chris Darrow by Emily Rueb of "The New York Times" in her March 17, 20189 obituary of influential surf music guitarist Dick Dale.. Kubernik and Darrow also provided long form remembrances on Dick Dale displayed on the March 18, 2019 edition of Forgotten Hits. Chris and Harvey also provided reminisces on Dick Dale now posted in Goldmine Magazine.

On March 12th, Harvey Kubernik's tribute to the legendary drummer Hal Blaine who passed away on March 11th was displayed on CaveHollywood.com. Harvey knew Hal for close to 50 years and participated on a handful of recording sessions with him in the late seventies. Harvey also penned Hal Blaine: Rest in Percussion heaven | Music Connection Magazine. Harvey's next article for the website due in the immediate future will be "David Bowie and Space Oddity: 50 Years On."

In his March 8, 2019 Forgotten Hits edition Kent Kotal posted this notice that the Otherworld Cottage Industries title, The Doors: Summer's Gone by Harvey Kubernik has been nominated for the 2019 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. And then added, "Harvey . . . well deserved. (As a non-voting member I can only offer you our continued support.) Other Doors fans would do well to check out this book."

In the March 6, 2019, Yo! Venice Harvey Kubernik reminisces to writer Keldine Hull about the impact of photographer Guy Webster's images in her story Venice Remembers Guy Webster.

On March 4th, jambands.com posted Brendan Driscoll's review of The Story of the Band, in which he wrote, "What we don’t see is dirt. Unsavory moments emphasized by other authors–substance abuse, depression–are glossed. The internecine feuding between band members is acknowledged but quickly forgiven as the Kubernick brothers emphasize positive, harmonious aspects of The Band’s history. It helps that their narrative ends with The Last Waltz; leaving the inevitable fragmentation, and the worst tragedies, largely offstage . . . The multitude of voices, including quotes from the band members and tour crew, journalists and fellow musical luminaries, gives The Story of The Band a certain broad-spectrum authority about its subject, as well as a bit of a documentary-film vibe."

The March 1, 2019 Forgotten Hits Friday Flash edition displayed Harvey Kubernik's 1975 interview with Freddie Mercury of Queen. Editor Kent Kotal in the same exhibition also touted Harvey's book on The Doors -- "One of my favorite works by Harvey Kubernik is his recent book on The Doors . . . It opened up new insight to me for a band I knew little about beyond the Classic Rock Album Tracks we all know by heart."

TIMELY THEN, TIMELY NOW! When Rami Malek won a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Freddie Mercury in the Queen biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody,” vintagerock.com quickly spot-lighted Harvey Kubernik's 1975 interview with Freddie Mercury in Beverly Hills, California.

In the Spring 2019 Ugly Things magazine review of The Story of The Band: From Big Pink to The Last Waltz that will appear in the March (Spring) issue, Jon Kanis writes "The Kuberniks do a highly commendable job in this beautiful coffee table book of capturing the essence of this dynamic band of brothers, along with some incredible photographs by Elliott Landy, John Scheele, Henry Diltz, and others."

"The Kuberniks offer up a series of personal snapshots in tracking the highs and lows of the Bands’ trajectory, opting for anecdotal narratives, pulled quotes, and first-hand accounts rather than expanding the narrative through a more traditional biographical approach.

"Harvey K starts off the Prologue (“Such a Night”) with his personal remembrances of what it was like to be in attendance at Winterland for The Last Waltz, and you can bet your racetrack winnings that if the shoe were on the other foot I’d be bragging about it in much the same fashion."

On February 12, 2019, musicconnection.com/digital posted the article MUSIC PHOTOGRAPHER GUY WEBSTER PASSES. Acclaimed music historian Harvey Kubernik gives a special appreciation of Guy Webster, known for his iconic images of classic rock heroes like the Rolling Stones.

In the February 7 edition of Variety, Harvey Kubernik, biographer of photographer Guy Webster is quoted extensively in the Steve Marinucci obit/tribute to the famed photographer.Guy Webster, Photographer of Album Covers by The Doors and Rolling Stones, Dies at 79

In Daniel Kreps' obituary/tribute to rock photographer in the February 9, 2019 "Rolling Stone" Harvey Kubernik is quoted extensively reflecting on the influence of Guy Webster's photographic work.

And Steve Marble's February 22, 2019 obituary in the Los Angeles Times also quoted Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik's Guy Webster biography, "Big Shots: The Photography of Guy Webster" extensively.

On February 2, 2019, Harvey Kubernik penned a memoir article Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper Remembered for the Ugly Things Magazine website. Harvey cites the new Decca/UMe label release "Buddy Holly with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: True Love Ways." Harvey also examines the 60th anniversary of tragic airplane crash that subsequently became known as “The Day the Music Died,” sadly referenced in Don McLean’s song, “American Pie.” Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson a.k.a. The Big Bopper died along with pilot Roger Peterson. In his text, Harvey also speaks to multi-instrumentalist Chris Darrow and author/music historian Roger Steffens about their recollections of seeing Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens live in concert during 1957 and '58. The popular website, www.forgottenhits.com also displayed Kubernik's text with a plethora of photos.

The new February/March 2019 issue of Record Collector News is now out with Harvey Kubernik's cover story on The Rolling Stones. The Stones' 2019 US tour is touted and the 50th anniversary of their "Beggar's Banquet" album. The article features an interview with director Michael Lindsay-Hogg on "The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus" soon to be released in an expanded 50th anniversary edition DVD and Blu-Ray. In addition, check out Lindsay-Hogg's comments on the UK 1963-1966 music dance program "Ready, Steady Go!" The periodical, is available as well online at www.recordcollectornews.com.

This RCN also spotlights a Kubernik-penned appreciation of jazz legend and producer Norman Granz, founder of Verve Records. A recent Verve/UMe record label "The Founder" box set which houses recordings from his landmark Verve label. Dig David Kessel's warm reflections on Norman Granz in the text. David's father the jazz icon and record producer Barney Kessel, was head of A&R for the Verve label during 1956-1960 and a friend of Granz from 1942-1990.

The RCN magazine/website also has Harvey's piece on the 60th anniversary Geffen/UMe retail release of Howlin' Wolf's debut album Moanin' In The Moonlight.

This month on Cave Hollywood, Harvey Kubernik breaks the news on the mid-February 2019 NBC-TV all-star tribute to Elvis Presley, MUSIC'S BIGGEST STARS HONOR "THE KING OF ROCK 'N' ROLL IN ELVIS ALL-STAR TRIBUTE, and the recreation of his '68 Comeback Special, and Harvey Kubernik's 10,000 word multi-voice narrative essay on the life and music career of Janis Joplin is now exhibited at cavehollywood.com.

Harvey Kubernik appears as an interview subject in the newly released David Tourje-directed short documentary titled John Van Hamersveld: Crazy World Ain't It that will have its World Premiere on February 6th 2019 at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. The seminal and colorful art career of artist Van Hamersveld is discussed by author Kubernik, artist Shepard Fairey, surfers Shaun Thompson and Jeff Ho, graphic designer Louise Sandhous and others. Van Hamersveld designed the iconic "Endless Summer" art image as well as album front covers for The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane and Blondie.

Harvey also celebrates the 50th anniversary of Leonard Cohen's "Songs From A Room" album with his text now displayed on the authorized Leonard Cohen Files website. The article implements three interviews Kubernik conducted with Cohen during the seventies for the now defunct weekly music periodical "Melody Maker."

Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik are interview guests this Sunday January 27th 11:15 AM (PST) on KCSN-FM 88.5fm.org "Tangled Roots" Radio Program and Podcast to Discuss Their Book on The Band.

Forgotten Hits on January 12th displayed Harvey Kubernik's story on a brand new Tina Turner musical coming to Broadway this year along with his 1975 interview with Tina, q.v. at cavehollywood.com.

Bookgasm.com's review of The Story of The Band reports "It has been 50 years since the release of Music from Big Pink...and 40 years since The The Band’s historic farewell concert, The Last Waltz, captured on film by Martin Scorsese. So it is fitting that music and pop cultural historians and journalists Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik mark these anniversaries with THE STORY OF THE BAND, a loving and informative reminder of the group’s persuasive legacy.

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Paste Magazine's 2018 Music Book Gift Guide list of the year's 10 best music books compiled by Lizzie Manno and Ellen Johnson placed The Story of The Band: From The Big Pink to The Last Waltz by Harvey Kubernik and Kenneth Kubernik at #5! "This summer marked the 50th anniversary of The Band’s debut album Music From The Big Pink. To commemorate this Canadian-American roots group’s distinguished career, music writers Harvey Kubernik and Kenneth Kubernik wrote The Story of the Band: From Big Pink to The Last Waltz. The book features unpublished interviews with members of The Band and others who worked with them like Ronnie Hawkins, Jerry Garcia, Andrew Loog Oldham, D.A. Pennebaker and Mike Stoller. This beautiful coffee table book features lots of full-page photographs of the group alongside greats like Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Muddy Waters."

And The Story of The Band: From Big Pink to the Last Waltz, is a selection in 2018 in Review: The Best Music Books of the Year, by the Best Classic Bands staff.

Harvey Kubernik's April 9, 1998 profile and interview with arranger/composer Jack Nitzsche initially published in "L.A. New Times" was the featured article in the December 21, 2018 rocksbackpages, the ultimate library of rock writing and journalism the prestigious website's Stones Special which spotlighted a Keith Richards audio interview and Mick Jagger in the movie Performance.

Harvey Kubernik's 1999 interview in Goldmine magazine with the legendary songwriting and production team Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, "A Yakety Yak wiith Leiber and Stoller" is now published in The Popular Music Teaching Handbook: An Educator's Guide to Music-Related Print Resources written and assembled by B. Lee Cooper and Rebecca A. Condon, published by Libraries Unlimited, Connecticut and London.

A portion of Harvey Kubernik's 1975 interview with The Captain & Tenille published in "Melody Maker" is listed and quoted in Nicholas Rombes's book "A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974-1982," published by Continuum.

The 50th issue of "Ugly Things" magazine scheduled for February 2019 publication will feature Harvey's story on the 50th anniversary of the Doors' "Waiting For The Sun," and an article on the 60th anniversary of Howlin' Wolf's debut album "Moanin' In The Moonlight" on Chess Records, soon to be reissued on Geffen/UMe.

The Harvey Kubernik book "Turn Up The Radio Rock, Pop and Roll in Los Angeles 1956-1972" was cited by author Richard Williams in the blue moment blog December 16, 2018 in his tribute to bassist and Wrecking Crew member Joe Osborn.

Sunday, December 23, 2018 Forgotten Hits in their Sunday Comments (12 - 23 - 18) displayed a Harvey Kubernik personal reflection on Joe Osborn. In addition, the popular website posted Harvey's essay and memoir article on Don Webster, the host of the influential TV music (1964-1971) series "Upbeat."

Harvey Kubernik's interview with Berry Gordy, "Berry Gordy: A Conversation With Mr Motown," that initially was published in 1995 in Goldmine and HITS magazine, has just been licensed for inclusion in "The Pop, Rock & Soul Reader," edited by David Brackett to be published in 2019 by Oxford University Press.

Neil Young's 73rd birthday was recently celebrated this past November 12th. A 2015 audio interview Harvey Kubernik did with the Young-themed at www.thrashersweat.org was re-broadcast. From 2015's celebration, we have an exclusive interview with author Harvey Kubernik on his new book "Neil Young - Heart of Gold". Details @ EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Author Harvey Kubernik on "Neil Young - Heart of Gold" Book on WBKM.org.

Harvey Kubernik's 2004 book Hollywood Shack Job: Rock Music In Film and on Your Screen is now listed in the notes for the book Music, Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema edited by James Wierzbicki, published by Routledge in their Music and Screen Media series. Kubernik's interview with director Baz Luhrmann in"Hollywood Shack Job"is also cited in a "Music and the Moving Image" article Music, the Musical, and Postmodernism in Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge in an essay by Ann van der Merwe published by University of Illinois Press.

The Harvey and Kenneth co-authored A Perfect Haze: The Illustrated History of the Monterey International Pop Festival, published in 2011 by Santa Monica Press is a bibliography listing in the August 2018 book by Nancy Hendricks, Web results Popular Fads and Crazes through American History from Greenwood Publishers.

A portion of Harvey Kubernik's 2008 interview with Mark Volman of Flo & Eddie fame that was initially published in Kubernik's "Canyon of Dreams The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon" is now displayed on the "Just Another Band From L.A." News and Comments

The February/March 2019 issue of Record Collector News magazine will also feature Harvey's cover story on The Rolling Stones. Their upcoming 2019 US tour will be previewed, the recent ABKCO CD reissue of "Beggar's Banquet" is examined as well as details and information on several new commercially released Stones' live concert DVD's now available from Eagle Vision.

On December 4th, Record Collector News magazine, and their online site proudly presents Harvey Kubernik's 4,000 word examination of The Beatles White Album. Read his unique technical and retail insights into the influence of Hollywood in 1968 on the lads from Liverpool and their landmark recording which now celebrates a 50th anniversary edition.

With the box office success of the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, a May 2012 Queen-authorized documentary on the band, Queen: Days of Our Lives is now broadcasting globally. Director Matthew O'Casey filmed author and music historian Harvey Kubernik for the original BBC Television airing, which is now released as a DVD via Eagle Rock Entertainment. Kubernik appears in the program 4 times alongside group members Brian May, Roger Taylor, record producer Roy Thomas Baker and David Bowie.. In the late seventies Kubernik interviewed Queen's Freddie Mercury twice -- once in Hollywood and then in London.

On Tuesday, the Cave Hollywood website proudly presents Harvey Kubernik's 9,000 word essay on Elvis Presley and the landmark '68 Comeback Special. On November 2nd the portal featured Kubernik's article on The Bee Gees Timeless: The All Time Greatest Hits, and on November 8th the site presented Harvey's examination of The Doors and the 50th anniversary of their album Waiting for the Sun. Also scheduled for November is a long form piece on The Kinks, and finally, Harvey's essay on the 50th anniversary of The Rolling Stones "Beggar's Banquet," information on their 2019 "No Filer" US tour and an appreciation of Howlin' Wolf's "Moanin In The Moonlight" that will celebrate a 60th retail milestone in 2019. Scheduled for December are Kubernik's stories on Neil Young, Norman Granz, Travis Pike, The Moody Blues and Tina Turner. And if you missed it, on Friday, October 26th, the website debuted Harvey Kubernik's 8,000 word multi-voice narrative essay on the 50th anniversary release of the Jimi Hendrix Experience "Electric Ladyland" and Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live At the Hollywood Bowl 9/14/68.

Two articles Harvey Kubernik wrote on The Band during 1976, including an interview with Robbie Robertson and his live review of "The Last Waltz" for "Melody Maker," have just been published in The Ultimate Music Guide From The Makers of UNCUT in August. The issue is titled Bob Dylan & The Band.

Harvey Kubernik's 5,000 word essay on The Band's "Music From Big Pink" 1968 album, just re-released in an expanded 50th anniversary edition, is now displayed on www.cavehollywood.com.

And we had to share this Music Connection Magazine review The Story of The Band: From Big Pink to the Last Waltz" right at the top of the first column of text.

"The Band finally get the retrospective they deserve. The intimate testimonial tales from the front lines and the incredible rare illustrations reaching back into their earliest days will dizzy even the most knowledgeable. If you've got a die hard Band fan in your life, your Xmas shopping is done." -Daniel Weizmann, author and editor "Drinking with Bukowski."

"Once again, Harvey Kubernik spotlights a major music influencer with perceptive grace and first hand knowledge.The Band virtually invented Americana, not only on their own, but with their immortal backing of the century's greatest pop poet, Bob Dylan. Kubernik's latest book (he's written 15!) is not only a a feast for the eyes, but riveting with compelling testimony from a catholic variety of friends and fans. It's another notch in Harvey's belt of literary triumphs." - Roger Steffens, author of "So Much things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley."

On November 6, 2018, The Kubernik-written "The Story of The Band From Big Pink to The Last Waltz" coffee table-size book was published by Sterling/Barnes & Noble. Since then, Harvey Kubernik was the guest for an hour-long interview on host Larry Batson's Indiana-based Blog Talk Radio discussing the new Band book title, and since then, Kubernik was interviewed about the Band book on radio stations WDST-FM in Woodstock and was interviewed for the Michael Shelley Show on WFMU-FM in New Jersey, broadcast on January 19th. Excerpted interviews are now posted on itunes. Michael welcomes three authors to discuss their recent books: Harvey Kubernik on "The Story Of The Band", Ian Rusten on "The Rolling Stones in Concert, 1962-1982: A Show-by-Show History" and Tom Smucker on "Why the Beach Boys Matter" Shelley's previous radio interviews include Hal Blaine, Solomon Burke, Fred Cash of The Impressions, Jackie DeShannon, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Rick Hall, Lulu, Lloyd Price, Shel Talmy, Allen Toussaint, Pat Vegas, and Brian Wilson.

On Friday, December 7th at 2:00 pm, PST, authors Harvey Kubernik and Kenneth Kubernik were the featured guest interview subjects on KPFK-(90.7) FM Pacifica Performance Showcase program in Los Angeles hosted and produced by Donna Walker. The Kubernik brothers will be spotlighted discussing The Story of The Band From Big Pink to The Last Waltz in a special edition of KPFK’s “mini” fund drive that Walker and Julio Martinez will host. Publishers Sterling/Barnes and Noble are providing 5 signed author copies of the book to KPFK-FM to support operating costs. Listen to this Art in Review/Pacifica Artist Showcase archived for "Play" or "Download" at KPFK.org under "Audio Archives," Friday, December 7, 2018 2:30 pm.

The January 2019 issue of Shindig! magazine presents a tribute to San Francisco music that displays Harvey's interview with Jefferson Airplane co-founder Marty Balin. Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik's "Story of the Band" (Sterling) is reviewed In Shindig's book reviews section by Duncan Fletcher, who writes, "This coffee table book doesn't claim to be the definitive telling of The Band's story but it does cover their active years in a winningly enthusiastic way. In addition, the book contains eye-witness fan accounts, contemporary record and concert reviews, and reminisces from key journalists, DJs, promoters and other industry shakers and movers. All key moments in The Band's career are brought into sharp focus by this multiple voice and viewpoint approach. Don't expect any startling revelations, dirt-dishing or gossip but do expect a celebration and exploration of just what it was that made The Band and their music so special. As one of the era's most photogenic acts the photographs are a treat too, several of which are previously unpublished. They're accompanied by illustrations of ticket stubs, posters, handbills, set lists and hand-written studio and stage notes." And the same issue, under the title of "Odd Tales and Wonders, 1964-1974: A Decade of Performance," Lenny Helsing warmly reviews Pike's new "1964-1974: A Decade of Odd Tales and Wonders" (Otherworld Cottage Industries), and reports that "In this newly-expanded printing Pike's post-60s and ’70s career, in which he found varying degrees of success as writer, player, author and storyteller, are also examined. Hundreds of photos and other promotional images accompanying the text, plus lyrics and a superb Harvey Kubernik interview which illuminates further Pike's ongoing journey."

In the October 3rd edition of Celebrity Access, Professional Entertainment Magazine, writer Joe Reinartz penned a tribute to Beatles engineer the late Geoff Emerick. Article utilized a portion of a 2002 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with famed engineer/record producer Emerick.

Kent Kotal of www.forgottenhits.com Sunday Comments Page this past Sunday displayed Harvey's 2015 www.cavehollywood.com interview with Marty Balin, founder of Jefferson Airplane, as a tribute to the late singer/songwriter. The same website ran Kubernik's recent Graham Nash story and interview coinciding with Nash's show in Los Angeles at The Ace Hotel.

Around Harvey's work on music documentaries he's just written the 5,000 word multi-voice narrative cover story for the December 2018 issue of Record Collector News magazine on the 50th anniversary of The Beatles' "White Album" that Apple Corps Ltd./Capitol/UMe recently released. The same periodical will also include Harvey's feature article on singer/songwriter Travis Pike and his half century music and recording endeavors.

Harvey’s coffee table volume 1967: A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love (Sterling/Barnes & Noble) is cited and listed in the new book The 1960s: Key Themes and Documents (Unlocking American History) by James S. Olson, edited by Mariah Gumpert, published by ABC-CLIO in late spring 2018.

Harvey Kubernik contributes a page of text in the "Reggae Festival Guide Magazine 2018" book along with other authors Ritchie Unterberger, Pat Gilbert, Chris Salewicz and Garth Cartwright.

On September 28, 2018, Rock's Backpages, "the ultimate library of rock music writing and journalism," displayed a Harvey Kubernik December 14, 1974 Melody Maker review of Stevie Wonder's concert at the Inglewood Forum.

Starting on October 1st, Harvey Kubernik story on the new documentary “Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story” soundtrack album, with comments from Joe Elliott from Def Leppard, and Harvey’s interview with Ian Hunter discussing Ronson will be spotlighted on www.cavehollywood.com. Kubernik and the website on October 8th will be saluting the 60th anniversary edition of "Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely” that the UMe label has re-released. On October 15th, Kubernik on the digital platform touts the Motown/UMe reissue of Elaine Brown's rare, self-titled album from the first and only female Chair of the Black Panther Party that was originally available on Motown's Black Forum label. During October and November, the website will post long form interviews and stories by Harvey on The Bee Gees, (October 22nd), Paul Butterfield, (November 2nd), The Doors (November 9th) and Jimi Hendrix (November 16th)

The September issue of Record Collector News is now out with Kubernik's articles on the Seeds and filmmaker Neil Norman and his music documentary "Pushin' Too Hard," a Kubernik-penned retrospective on the Buffalo Springfield, and a story on Mike Garson and his new autobiography, Bowie's Piano Man. The October issue of Record Collector News will have Harvey's cover story on The Kinks and the celebration of their 50th anniversary of "Village Green Preservation Society" album. Harvey's profile of the "VGPS" album will include his two new interviews with Kinks' co-founders Ray and Dave Davies. Kubernik is also preparing a feature story on the new documentary "Horn from the Heart The Paul Butterfield Story." which hits U.S. theater screens in November

Sony/Legacy Records is planning a November 2018 reissue of Bob Dylan's 1975 album "Blood on The Tracks." The label in late September will be announcing an expanded multi-disc collection for the next edition of The Bob Dylan Bootleg Series. In November 2014, producer/reporter Paul Ingles www.peacetalksradio.com interviewed author Harvey Kubernik and a slew of music journalists and musicians at the NPR studios in Culver City California about the seminal Dylan work. A two-hour newscast at the Public Radio Exchange is currently available for broadcast at http://exchange.prx.org/pieces/135893.

Harvey Kubernik's story on the 40th anniversary of Bob Marley & The Wailers' "Kaya" is currently celebrated on Cave Hollywood: An Underground Portal to the World of Music Cool!, along with Kubernik's examination of the just issued DVD Joni Mitchell Both Sides Now: Live At The Isle of Wight Festival 1970, his story on the upcoming Graham Nash intimate evening of songs and stories solo tour, and coming soon, Harvey's 2013 interview with filmmaker Murray Lerner about the landmark UK music festival. Enjoy!

The August 11th Born To Listen website cites a March 1975 "Melody Maker" interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with Leonard Cohen

Harvey Kubernik’s 2012 interview with Andy Johns, principal engineer on the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street 1972 album, overdubbed, mixed and mastered at Sunset Sound in Hollywood is cited and quoted in the recent book Experiencing the Rolling Stones: A Listener's Companion By David Malvinni, published by Rowan & Littlefield.


Read Harvey Kubernik's extensive essay on the Rolling Stones and their landmark studio recording "Sympathy for the Devil" and upcoming DVD and blu-Ray of "Sympathy for the Devil (One Plus One)" to be released in October. now displayed on www.cavehollywood.com. Mike Stax the editor and publisher of Ugly Things magazine for the November 2018 issue will be running an extended and un-edited version of Harvey's original piece on this epic song along with his study of the Stones' "Beggar's Banquet" album.

In July 2018, Christopher Crenshaw of Florida State University in his online essay and PDF, Five to One: Rethinking the Doors and the Sixties Counterculture, quotes the Ray Manzarek and Harvey Kubernik "Bloody Red Sun of Fantastic L.A." interview in Kubernik's "This Is Rebel Music: The Harvey Kubernik Inner Views," published in 2003 by University of New Mexico Press.

Kubernik also authored the informative, illustrated Afterword to 1964-1974: A Decade of Odd Tales and Wonders, Travis Pike's new 374 page Trade Paperback memoir about that turbulent decade published by Otherworld Cottage Industries.

A 2014 Harvey Kubernik interview with Peter Lewis, co-founder of Moby Grape displayed in Kubernik's book "Leonard Cohen Everybody Knows," and excerpted on www.cohencentric.com is now cited in the 2018 Jawbone Press book "What Is Big and Purple and Lives in the Ocean?: The Moby Grape Story" by Dr. Cam Cobb.

This week, deejay Pete Mitchell is joined by legendary Motown songwriter and vocalist Brenda Holloway and music author Harvey Kubernik on The Face Radio. Free, View in iTunes.

Harvey Kubernik's correspondence with Kent Kotal, editor of the popular www.forgottenhits.com website was displayed in the August 23rd newsletter. Seminal 1966-1969 SoCal recording were discussed and editor Kotal hailed several of Harvey's recent books

Harvey Kubernik’s “Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon,” published in 2009, cited on July 14, 2018 “Gulf Oil Spill, Smithsonian Ocean, 2018, on J.D. | The Pop History Dig.

Online NOW! www.cavehollywood.com, parades Kubernik's examination of the band Love and salutes the 50th anniversary of their epic album Forever Changes.

Harvey Kubernik's "Revisiting Dylan's John Wesley Harding in Goldmine magazine, 24 March, 2011, cited in Bob Dylan Americana Period (1967-1974) by William Hollis on Prezi.

Online NOW! www.cavehollywood.com, is displaying Harvey Kubernik's article on The Beatles White Album, and Harvey's interview with Mike Garson, David Bowie's pianist for 20 albums. Garson has just published a revised and updated edition, the first in paperback, of his only biography, Bowie’s Piano Man: The Life of Mike Garson, written by Clifford Slapper.

Monday, July 23rd author Harvey Kubernik was the featured guest interview subject on the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Tom Barnard Show discussing his new book The Doors Summer's Gone. The Kubernik and Barnard interview 20 minute segment was heard at 12:35 pm (PST). KQRS-FM host Barnard in 2017 was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. Visit the website to download and listen anytime at www.tombarnardshow.com.

In Mark Nardone's musicconnection.com review of The Doors Summer's Gone he writes "Here’s another kick-ass compendium of interviews, courtesy of journalist/historian Harvey Kubernik, who seems to have a bottomless trove of chats with the band’s members, intimates and authorities."

Salli Stevenson, an Amazon verified purchaser, posted a FIVE STAR review titled OH, GIVE ME THE FANS, for Harvey Kubernik's The Doors Summer's Gone, concluding, "...this celebration of The Doors is a golden explosion of words that leaves me craving more. This is not necessarily a “turn the page” book. Its glory is that you can pick any page at random and savor the experience as written and collected by journalist/writer, Harvey Kubernik. Start with fan, Marina Mulfriedel. She’s wonderful and will put you in the mood for more!

During August, Harvey's book on The Doors Summer's Gone, published by Otherworld Cottage Industries, is touted and referenced in a three-part online story by Kirk Silsbee on artsmeme Ten Years of fine-arts blogging.

RE: The Doors Summer's Gone "Jim Morrison epitomizes the grating dichotomy between the Love generation and the militants marching for a whole range of human rights, and he paid the price. America's downfall is his downfall, and vice versa. If you really want to know what it was like to be alive in the brief golden efflorescence of 1965-1969, read Harvey Kubernik's latest, a compendium of absolutely essential interviews with the prime figures in Jim Morrison's life - band mates, lovers, studio personnel, drinking buddies, fellow poets and actors. They delineate their common belief that Morrison was bipolar, egged on by an uncontrollable alcoholism, thus referred to as Jim when relatively communicable and Jimbo when he was full tilt gonzo madman, hanging from the rafters physically and psychically. His genius is undeniable, but he was never built to last. Herein, you will learn why. A magnificent accomplishment, once again, for the King of L.A. music writers." ---Roger Steffens, whose latest book is about another troubled artist, gone too soon: So Much Things to Day: The Oral History of Bob Marley from W. W. Norton. L.A. July 5 18

Harvey Kubernik's article on the Byrds' groundbreaking "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" is the feature article this week spotlighted on the subscription site www.rocksbackpages, the ultimate library of rock music writing and journalism, "So You Want to be a Country-Rock Band."

During the second week of July, www.cavehollywood.com, following Kubernik's current study of Otis Redding on the site, will display Harvey's interview with Mike Garson, David Bowie's pianist for 20 albums. Garson has just published a revised and updated edition, the first in paperback, of his only biography, Bowie’s Piano Man: The Life of Mike Garson, written by Clifford Slapper.

Harvey Kubernik's Buffalo Springfield story has just been picked up by the popular online website www.forgottenhits.com displayed on June 10th. Check out Harvey Kubernik’s new narrative regarding Rhino Records’ brand new Buffalo Springfield’s deluxe box set on Cave Hollywood.

Musicologist and author Jon Kanis in his recently published book, "Encyclopedia Walking Pop Culture & The Alchemy Of Rock 'N' Roll" (Da Vinci Publishing) devotes a chapter to Harvey & Kenneth Kubernik's "A Perfect Haze: The Illustrated History of the Monterey International Pop Festival" book and examines the landmark music gathering.

Virgin Radio announces launch of a new hour-long documentary series focusing on classic acts including David Bowie and The Rolling Stones. Harvey Kubernik will be a guest interview on producer/broadcaster Pete Mitchell's documentary "Revolutions in Music: The Rolling Stones" that will be broadcast on Virgin Radio Sunday 17th June at 7pm in the UK. Mitchell has also interviewed the Stones' Mick Jagger and producer Andrew Loog Oldham whose recording studio collaborations will be heard on this British-birthed radio special. Future editions of the show will focus on Led Zeppelin, David Bowie’s Berlin period and the Sex Pistols’ Anarchy Tour.

A 1975 archive interview section of a Leonard Cohen interview Kubernik conducted for Melody Maker is now spotlighted on the May 24, 2018 Cohencentric website.

Cave Hollywood this week posts Harvey's story on the Miles Davis and John Coltrane landmark collaboration Miles Davis & John Coltrane-The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6, and also displays Harvey's tribute and oral music history dialogue with Russ Regan, the late visionary A&R man and record executive who signed Hugh Masekela, Elton John and Neil Diamond, to the UNI/MCA, now UMe record label. While President of 20th Century Fox Records, Regan inked Barry White to the label. He is also credited with giving the Beach Boys their band name. On Monday, June 4th, the website will spotlight Kubernik's 16,000 word multi-voice examination on the upcoming Buffalo Springfield box set Rhino Records is releasing, WHAT'S THAT SOUND? THE COMPLETE ALBUMS COLLECTION.

The June 20th issue of Record Collector News magazine features Kubernik's cover story on the music documentary Bang! The Bert Berns Story which has just been released on DVD.

The summer issue of Ugly Things magazine (#48) spotlighted Kubernik's multi-page spread on Elvis Presley, a revised and edited text from Harvey's 11,000 word essay on Presley currently displayed online at cavehollywood.com and the same issue will published Harvey's 8,000 word essay on Love's "Forever Changes" album that is celebrating a 50th anniversary edition.

In Andy Pearson's review of The Doors Summer's Gone, he writes, "...this book really captured my imagination. Instead of just recounting the same old stories, facts and figures, Harvey Kubernik has opted to gather together rare or exclusive interviews and recollections with people who were there at the time, ranging from the band members themselves to original fans and acquaintances, to relate the memories that really capture what made it special for them." Read the entire review posted online at Fear and Loathing Fanzine.

Attention Shindig! magazine readers! Issue #80 with MC5 on the cover, features an excellent Grahame Bent four star review of Harvey Kubernik's The Doors Summer's Gone in which he reports "To his eternal credit Kubernik’s thoughtfully assembled episodic text doesn’t focus excessively on already well explored aspects of The Doors’ mythology, but rather attempts to build a fuller, more rounded picture of the band and their turbo-charged rise to the top by incorporating material and viewpoints from a wide diversity of sources which lends a tangible sense of time and place to the material." And while we're on reviews, check out the two Five Star reviews on the AMAZON webpage.

"I could not put this book down.Through a series of interviews gathered over half a century, Kubernik, not just a lover of rock music and its giants but extremely knowledgable, respectful and insightful skillfully paints and weaves through these interviews, portraits of the Doors that shows them in a new light as if seen for the first time." -- Earl Goldstein

"With Harvey Kuberniks’ recently released tome, we finally get to the reality of the inner workings of this legendary band . . . At two hundred twenty-two pages, Summer’s Gone is a quick, entertaining read, with the real story of the four men who put the L.A. music scene of the 60s on the cultural map." -- Jan A. Henderson.

The May Record Collector News 10th Anniversary issue showcases Harvey's cover story on Miles Davis & Coltrane-The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6, and his articles on the Electric Flag, and to celebrate, they've created a stunning page of 67 covers, 64 of which showcase feature stories by contributing editor Harvey Kubernik. VIEW IT HERE.

On Sunday, May 6th, Harvey Kubernik did an hour long interview with host Larry Battson on his Wild World Program discussing Harvey's recently published books. Their conversation starts about 15 minutes into the show which may be heard at Larry Battson welcomes Harvey Kubernik on Wild World.

Make that two more great reviews for Inside Cave Hollywood. In addition to the Lonn Friend, Author, Life on Planet Rock writes, "“Harvey Kubernik is the Gandalf of pop culture coffee table volumes, a literary wizard whose gift of visually fun and fact-filled chronicle story telling is unsurpassed. Inside Cave Hollywood continues the pulp magic by taking us behind the most worn and wonderful tinsel town velvet ropes,” we discovered Mark Nardone's review in the Book Store section of the March issue of Music Connection Magazine in which he wrote, "Music historian Harvey Kubernik unleashes another trove of vintage interviews with both famous and obscure figures who have made the music industry so fascinating. Al Kooper, Johnny Cash, Grace Slick, Elton John, Leon Russell all make appearances here, as well as the men and women who worked behind the scenes. Lots of great revelations in this book: Who knew Bob Marley once lived in an apartment in West Hollywood?"

U.K-based deejay and his radio program at Pete Mitchell's Soul Time --The Face Radio, will host an interview Mitchell just conducted with Harvey Kubernik as they jointly examine the soul music legacy of singer Al Green the week of April 30th-May 4th. For early June, the duo will discuss the Rolling Stones.

Monday, April 23, 2018 Pat Prince, Editor of Goldmine Magazine, has posted the GOLDMINE MAGAZINE PODCAST conversation with author Harvey Kubernik, in which they talk about Harvey's new Doors book and his back catalog detailing 1960's L.A.

Sunday, April 22, 2018 Thanks to Kent Kotal, for his endorsement in The Sunday Comments (04 – 22 – 18) on his Forgotten Hits 60s blogspot, in which he writes that the book he’s reading right now , “Harvey Kubernik’s Summer’s Gone, a tribute to The Doors with TONS of commentary on the band, both from folks who were there at the time and reflective looks back,” is “VERY well done.” See the Forgotten Hits follow up in its Tuesday, April 24's This and That.

And while we’re at it, Marina Muhlfriedel emailed Harvey to thank him for Summer’s Gone. “I’m enjoying reading all the pieces and humbled and honored to be included,” she wrote. “Great volume. Great love letter to The Doors.”

While we're on Cave Hollywood, be sure to check out Harvey's feature story, Blood, Sweat & Tears Child is the Father to the Man Celebrates 50th Anniversary. And we're pleased to announce that Jan Alan Henderson wrote, in his review of Inside Cave Hollywood in the current issue #151 of FILMFAX magazine, "Harvey Kubernik’s Inside Cave Hollywood has the inside track on Hollywood’s often forgotten hidden history, with a collection of articles, interviews, essays, profiles and encounters that place us smack in the middle of this fascinating slice of Tinseltown history . . . Inside Cave Hollywood Vol. 1 is an essential literary archive of a music dynasty that should never be forgotten!”

NEW FROM OTHERWORLD COTTAGE
A half-century chronicle and examination of author and music historian Harvey Kubernik’s personal and product relationship with the legendary band.
Since attending a Doors’ concert in Southern California during 1968, over the last five decades Kubernik has interviewed three members of the band and conducted dozens of interviews with musicians who shared the stage with the Doors, studio engineers, producers, filmmakers, poets, literary professors, spiritual leaders, record company presidents, deejays, fans, friends, and intimate insiders about the Doors’ still ongoing musical influence and cultural impact.
Kubernik’s multi-voice narrative offers a revealing words-eye-view and details the Doors and their audio and filmic legacy like never before. Rare and never seen photos of the Doors by Henry Diltz, Tom Gundelfinger O’Neil, Heather Harris, Kurt Ingham, Helie Robertson and archive items from the collection of Ida Miller are also displayed.

REVIEWS KEEP POURING IN FOR THE DOORS SUMMER'S GONE
"Harvey Kubernik’s Summer's Gone is an anomaly in a jungle of Jim Morrison tomes. While other literary endeavors focus on exploiting the folklore, Mr. Kubernik reveals the bare-bones of the Doors of perception. There is an old saying, “When you have the choice of printing the truth or the legend, print the legend.” Wisely, Kubernik veers away from mythology and gives the back story from insiders’ points of view, of the people who were there, who were now and present in that time that we shall never see again.
- Jan Alan Henderson, author of Crypt 39, Speeding Bullet, Behind the Crimson Cape (the cinema of George Reeves), contributor to FilmFax Magazine, Cult Movies, and American Cinematographer

“Harvey Kubernik's newest book The Doors Summer's Gone gives the reader a more intimate knowledge - no holds barred - at times into the life and times of The Doors . . . Kubernik's last two books, his literary anthology Inside Cave Hollywood and 1967 A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love shows all that this prolific writer ain't just whistlin' dixie. Don't say that I'm not warnin' ya 'all. This is some great human stuff, man!”
Carlos "Cake" Nunez, former 'scribe for fLiPSiDE Fanzine (currently researching his upcoming
autobiographical book about his experiences and friendship during his Punk Rock college days
(1984 - 1987) and his eventual hook-up with fLiPSiDE Fanzine (1990 - 1999)

Once again Harvey has taken key elements from the interviews he’s done over the past 40+ years and woven them into a very descriptive perspective of The Doors, both musically as personally . . . The book is brilliantly put together and even the most casual Doors fan will enjoy the fly-on-the-wall memories who were there from the beginning and caught these guys performing in the clubs before and after their first record was ever released. The way the band grew in fan appeal (and mythical proportions) is unbelievable. Highly recommended.
Kent Kotal, Forgotten Hits Blogspot

"There are authors who live it and breathe it. And there are authors who can only dream about it. Harvey Kubernik's new book The Doors Summer's Gone relives his intense alliance to one of L.A.'s finest homegrown bands. Not only did Kubernik forge a personal friendship with the three remaining Doors but he also maintained a spiritual connection with Morrison from the great beyond. It gives me great pleasure to know that all of Kubernik's rock 'n' roll life has been one big intersection with Venice's favorite sons."
Gene Aguilera, East L.A. music historian and boxing book author,
Latino Boxing in Southern California (Arcadia Publishing)

"Few music journalists have revealed the detailed facts behind rock’s golden era as assiduously and lovingly as Harvey Kubernik. He once again delivers the goods with his Doors history Summer’s Gone."
Michael Simmons, MOJO, High Times
First Galley Reviews for The Doors Summer's Gone
"More than any band of rock's Golden Age, the Doors have been fogged up by the smoke and mirrors of legend and mythology.
"Kubernik's masterful anthology gets behind, under, and beyond the tall tales and casts an uncompromised eye on their real art, their real story, their real impact, and their real magic." --Author Daniel Weizmann

"As he always does when putting sound and motion onto page, Harvey Kubernik strips away every candy carnival coating with the precision of background and experience, getting straight to the heart of the real matters.
"Of course The Doors have for a half-century and counting far too often fallen victim to myth-raking and hyperbole – Jim Morrison, among others, always did want to touch Elvis, now didn't he? But Summer's Gone brings only the most insightful truths, from the most knowledgeable mouths, together under one cover. In between are The Doors." --Author Gary Pig Gold

In the April Ugly Things magazine, Jon Kanis' review of Kubernik's recently published Inside Cave Hollywood reports "This latest anthology of Kubernik’s published work has a classic roster of subject matter, including insightful essays on Lenny Bruce, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, and Jefferson Airplane. His first-person interviews with Leonard Cohen, Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman of the Turtles, child star Billy Mumy, bassist Billy Cox, guitarist extraordinaire Danny Korchmar, producer/arranger/composer Jack Nitzsche, impresario Andrew Loog Oldham, and photographer Guy Webster are all fascinating reads. Kubernik’s access to these legendary figures is the key ingredient that drives these meditations, and the results are always compelling."

In the same Ugly Things issue, Kubernik's multi-voice narrative and review article on the new DVD, The Doors: Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970 from Eagle Rock Entertainment is currently displayed.

The May/June issue of Record Collector News magazine will showcase Kubernik's cover story on the new 4CD boxset and digital configuration Miles Davis & John Coltrane - The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6. Record Collector News magazine in the April/May issue spotlighted Kubernik's cover story on the 60th anniversary of Muddy Waters' first album on Chess by reissuing The Best of Muddy Waters on vinyl in original mono for the first time in 30 years. The Geffen/UMe label is also making it available for download and streaming for the first time ever.

On March 15th cavehollywwod.com presented Harvey Kubernik's 11,000 word essay and multi-voice narrative text on Elvis Presley celebrating the April 14th HBO premiere of the three and a half hour documentary Elvis Presley: The Seeker. The film debuted on March 14th at SXSW. RCA/Legacy Recordings will release a 3-CD collection.

The Summer 2018 issue of Ugly Things will publish a multi-page edited text of Kubernik's 11.000 word Elvis Presley essay.

In 2008, Kubernik penned the 5,000 word liner notes to the 40th anniversary edition of Elvis The '68 Comeback Special 5 CD box set. Harvey's text includes his archive voices of Dick Clark, Jerry Leiber, along with Andrew Loog Oldham, director Steve Binder, Don Randi, and Hal Blaine. Kubernik in 2007 appeared in the deluxe edition DVD of Viva Las Vegas

Friday, March 2, 2018 Forgotten Hits Friday Flash Scroll down to read Harvey Kubernik's article on Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 and his 2014 interview with engineer Bones Howe about the recording session on the memorable and influential hit single "Mas Que Nada."

Cave Hollywood is now displaying Harvey Kubernik's multi-voice narrative feature story on the soon to be issued February 23, 2018 CD, DVD and digital video, The Doors: Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970.

U.S. listeners will now find Pete Mitchell's radio program at Pete Mitchell's Soul Time --The Face Radio, where this week, on February 13th-19th, Kubernik and Mitchell will examine some music on the Chess label -- Howlin' Wolf Smoke Stack Lightning, Ramsey Lewis Wade in the Water, and The Dells Run for Cover. On their February 19th-26 segment they'll spin and dissect "Shop Around" by the Miracles, "I'm Still Loving You" from Kim Weston, and the Temptations "Ball of Confusion."

On their February 27th-March 4th broadcast, Mitchell will speak to Kubernik about Otis Redding and his epic 1966 headline engagement at the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood, Ca., a chapter featured in his new book, Inside Cave Hollywood The Harvey Kubernik InnerViews and InterViews Vol. 1.

Pete and Harvey on their March 12th-19th broadcast will spotlight the sixties and early seventies recording career of soul and disco superstar Barry White.

Their March 20th-27th discussion will be about Atlantic Records and the R&B history of the landmark label. Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Ruth Brown, and Solomon Burke are the topics.

Pete Mitchell has produced a new radio documentary celebrating the 40th anniversary of Queen's News of the World. In it, Pete talks to Queen expert Phil Chapman about their 1977 classic album News Of The World along with contributions from Queen, John Lydon and Harvey Kubernik. More info HERE.

On February 5th 2018 Cave Hollywood displayed Harvey Kubernik's profile and memoir text on the landmark Blue Thumb Records label. The multi-voice oral history implements the contributions of Bobby Womack, Jim Keltner, Tina Turner, Andrew Loog Oldham, Kenneth Kubernik, Dr. James Cushing, David Kessel, Michael Macdonald, David N. Pepperell and Andy Leach.

THE GRAMMY AWARDS, SUNDAY, JANUARY 28 2018 Harvey Kubernik was interviewed by journalist Lynell George for her liner notes to the Otis Redding "Live at the Whisky A Go Go: The Complete Recordings," a 6 CD-box set that Stax Records, an imprint of Concord Bicycle Music released October 21st 2016. Kubernik was quoted at length in the text and received a special thanks credits in the package. On January 2018, George won the 2018 Grammy for Best Album Notes.

Harvey Kubernik's tribute to Hugh Masekela is posted in the Forgotten Hits January 24, 2018 section "Some of Your Mid-Week Comments."

Harvey Kubernik's multi-voice narrative and review article on the new DVD, The Doors: Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970 from Eagle Rock Entertainment will be displayed in the next issue of Ugly Things magazine in spring 2018.

The January, 2018 issue of Record Collector News magazine Kubernik’s cover story features Harvey Kubernik's profiles and interviews with author Roger Steffens on his So Many Things To Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley, and photographer Robert M. Knight on his just published Rock Gods Fifty Years of Rock Photography.

Harvey Kubernik was interviewed by author Clinton Heylin and thanked in his November 2017 Trouble In Mind: Bob Dylan's Gospel Years - What Really Happened book published by Lesser Gods.


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If you love the history and sound of Chess, Motown and Brunswick Records and the recorded catalogs of Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, 1964-1966 Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys, Bob Marley & the Wailers, the Rolling Stones in mono, the 1965-1970 era of the Turtles, Lenny Bruce, Carole King's immediate post-Brill Building period, the Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim LP, Leon Russell, Paul Kantner, Al Kooper's Super Session disc, visionary booking agent Jerry Heller, Otis Redding at the Whisky a Go Go in 1966, the film/music career of Bill Mumy, Elton John’s first two 1970 U.S. albums, observations and reflections from icon Andrew Loog Oldham, the musical heritage of East Los Angeles, the landmark 1964-1969 rock and pop music photography of Guy Webster, YOU WANT THIS BOOK! SO CLICK THE COVER (LEFT), TO ORDER, direct from Cave Hollywood, Harvey Kubernik's Music InnerViews and Interviews VOL 1, is a photo-illustrated compilation of 2006-2016 articles, essays, interviews and encounters including unedited and expanded versions of Harvey's reports featured on cavehollywood.com over the last decade.

Kris Needs three star review of Inside Cave Hollywood in the March 2018 Issue of Shindig! magazine cites Kubernik’s "trainspotter detail" and "critical savvy."

Friday, February 23, 2018, Kent Kotal’s review of Inside Cave Hollywood in Forgotten Hits.
I've been reading Harvey Kubernik's new book "Inside Cave Hollywood" and THOROUGHLY enjoying it (although I have to admit it's cost me a bit of money to get through it!) That's because every chapter is SO unique and interesting, I've gone out and purchased copies of some of the material he describes in these articles.

Part Interview / Part History Lesson … the book gives insightful details about the artists, the '60's and the '70's and presents it in a very entertaining way. Since I've started reading, I've already gone out and bought "Motown: The Sound Of Young America," a BEAUTIFUL coffee-table type book that is supposed to be the DEFINITIVE history of the label … I've purchased and watched the dvd's spotlighting the highlights of The Johnny Cash Show … (man, Johnny had EVERYBODY on his show … from Bob Dylan to James Taylor to Linda Ronstadt to Creedence Clearwater Revival to Merle Haggard to Neil Young to The Monkees to Kris Kristofferson to Derek and the Dominoes (how many tv appearances did THESE guys do?!?!) to Glen Campbell to Neil Diamond … and on and on and on.) I had to watch these right away … and still think the story about Linda Ronstadt "singing better bottomless" takes the cake! Then I had to finally give in and order The Rolling Stones Mono Box … ALL of their '60's albums collected together into one beautiful box set presenting EVERY track in glorious mono!

Each chapter is a new adventure … Jimi Hendrix … Chess Records … The Turtles and Frank Zappa … Leon Russell … Elton John … Bob Marley and lots more. Highly recommended (although I personally will likely be broke by the time I actually finish it!!!) Order your copy HERE!

East L.A.’s rock ‘n’ roll flag gets waved high in the new book Inside Cave Hollywood, The Harvey Kubernik Music InnerViews and Interviews Collection Vol 1. The golden age of East L.A. music (1950s-1970s) has been severely neglected in countless books and documentaries, but Kubernik corrects these past omissions by including a chapter titled Tales of Vinyl from The Duke of Boyle Heights. Sandwiched in between chapters on the Rolling Stones, Lenny Bruce, and Turtles, the East L.A. sound gets represented on a global level (alongside Cash, Dylan, Cohen, Sinatra, Marley, and Leon Russell—and seminal record labels Motown, Chess, and Brunswick) for posterity. East L.A.’s chart successes are well-documented for all to see in Kubernik’s must read tome. Now the Eastside sound can proudly hold its head up high, standing on equal ground with all other musical genres. Thanks to Kubernik, the sleeping giant is awakening. ----Gene Aguilera, Boxing Book Author, East L.A. music historian, and noted record collector.

Sunday, February 4, 2018: Forgotten Hits Blogspot in its Sunday Comments (02 -04-18) Section posted "Imagine you had access to some of the most interesting musical artists of our time and that you kept a record of your private conversations with them and then you started a scrapbook so you could recall your most precious memories. Well, the encyclopedic Harvey Kubernik has done just that, revealing some of the most creative talents of our times in off-beat and clever ways deep inside 'Cave Hollywood. - Roger Steffens, author of "So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley.”

"Harvey Kubernik dares to take us to the Hollywood less explored, the real-life place where the daring work their craft and push the boundaries of culture. Most pop culture books rehash old mythologies to the point of self-parody. Kubernik, by contrast, puts us in the trenches where we learn about everything from East L.A. to Jerry Heller, Brunswick to the Band of Gypsys. Get in the cave and see the light." -- Daniel Weizmann.

"Consistently well informed enough to connect expert dots between, say, Sly Stone and Santana, not to mention always brave enough to place those Monkees right on the same page as Moby Grape, a descent into Kubernik's Cave will surely be rewarded with a bounty of deep wonders and, just as importantly, lyrical fun unrivaled since the genre-obliterating daze of AM Radio's prime.

"Yes, Harvey has heard, seen, met and done it all during diligent decades on the job, and we should all thank our lucky rock stars the clues behind their chords; the stories behind their sounds are now being shared anew for you, and for me, for the ages." -- GaryPigGold.com.

March 7, 2018, When we read interviews that writers have done with rock stars, we are drawn to the artist's thoughts, visions and creativity sprinkled with some personal anecdotes. We love to read what they share as if it were some sort of personal guideline. We are drawn in and feel we are actually sitting in a room with friends as the story unfolds. Author, Harvey Kubernik's book, "Inside Cave Hollywood The Harvey Kubernik Music InnerViews and InterViews Collection, Volume 1" is filled with selections of his interviews with classic rock artists dating back 45 years.Sharing his own insight about the artist including the setting, year and personal insights, Harvey is a wealth of music history for any rock and roll fan. Classic artists are the foundation of our music. We need to preserve the history, appreciate the music and move forward with the knowledge of where these artists and memorable hits originated.---Helen Rose, Amazon

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Harvey Kubernik's 1967: A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love, released by Sterling publishers is on sale now.

In the current issue of Shindig! magazine No. 74 in their Best of 2017 issue, Harvey Kubernik's book 1967 A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love was listed in the Top Ten of the year alongside titles on Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, and Jimmy Webb.

Kubernik's 1967 book was also hailed by Best Classic Bands 2017 year in review and selected number one in the Best Music Books of the Year in the Non-Biographical category.


Kubernik's cover story in the December, 2017 issue of Record Collector News magazine examined Bob Dylan and his “gospel years” multi-disc box set, Trouble No More - The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 / 1979-1981. In December 2017, Harvey Kubernik was interviewed by author Peter Neff for his book titled "That's The Bag I'm In: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Fred Neil" to be published by Texas Tech University Press.

Harvey Kubernik on The Rolling Stones On-Air 1963-1965 Album is now displayed on the Cave Hollywood website.


The November issue of Ugly Things magazine, #46, will spotlight Harvey Kubernik’s 4,500 word feature article, A Stand Against the Electric Swarm Dylan’s John Wesley Harding 50 Years On.

In the same issue, Kubernik also has a piece in the DVD REVIEWS section on sixties' rocker Travis Pike's Grumpuss 20th Anniversary Platinum Edition DVD release.

The November Ugly Things Website is now displaying Kubernik’s tribute to television and film producer, Jack Good, and his seminal weekly TV 1965 music series Shindig!

Monday, October 30th at 10:20 a.m. (Pacific Standard Time) Harvey Kubernik discussed his book on Leonard Cohen, Everybody Knows, for the Australian ABC Radio program Overnights. Trevor Chappell was the host for Kubernik's live half hour interview for the national program heard by half a million listeners. A link to the broadcast was available on the following Tuesday.

Leonard Cohen's debut album, Songs of Leonard Cohen, was released the last week of December 1967. Kubernik's acclaimed study on Leonard Cohen, Everybody Knows (BackBeat Books in the U.S. and Omnibus Press in the U.K.), has been published in six foreign language editions, in as many countries including France, Canada, China and Russia. The title is now out in paperback edition from Omnibus.

See also Kubernik's 5,800 word cover story on Leonard Cohen in the new issue of Record Collector News magazine online at www.recordcollectornews.com, and cavehollwood.com is currently exhibiting Kubernik's multi-voice narrative tribute to Leonard Cohen.

The October issue of Record Collector News magazine features Kubernik's tribute to Tom Petty and Harvey's multi-voice narrative 5,800 word cover story on Leonard Cohen.
Forgotten Hits Blogspot displays Harvey Kubernik's praised of Hugh Hefner's ongoing support of pop, rock and jazz in his recent book on 1967 music. "You see, brother, Hugh did things without any agenda whatsoever. Our country should understand that.” -- Dick Gregory to Harvey Kubernik, 2014. Read All About It (from 1967 A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love).

Harvey Kubernik is quoted in Mark Ribowsky's 2017 book, Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines: The Life and Music of James Taylor published by Chicago Review Press Incorporated.

On October 11th Harvey Kubernik was a 30 minute interview guest discussing his 1967 A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love book on deejay Tom Barnard's radio program The KQ92 Morning Show from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Barnard is a 2017 National Radio Hall of Fame inductee. Kubernik is introduced about 20 minutes into the show.

Harvey Kubernik's story on the acclaimed music documentary Bang! The Bert Berns Story and his interview with editor and co-director Bob Sarles is now exhibited on CaveHollywood.com. Larry LeBlanc is the acclaimed Canadian music journalist who was a recipient of a 2013 Juno Special Achievement Award after reading Harvey's interview with Bob Sarles sent out a Facebook post. "What a damn good interview by Harvey who is a friend. I love this damn film. I could watch it 100 times. Shame on Neil Diamond for not participating. Get over it Neil. This is history. But in truth he's not missed."

In a recent review of Harvey's 1967 Summer of Love book on Facebook, Poet/actor Harry E. Northup wrote, "Harvey Kubernik, the brilliant author and wordsmith who wrote the wonderful book on Leonard Cohen, "Everyone Knows," has just published another book, "1967 The Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love." My poem "The City" closes his multi-voice narrative text. The photos and the visual artifacts underscore the musicality and the cinematic qualities in his writing and curatorial skills. Harvey's arranging efforts are from the Jack Nitzsche, Allen Toussaint, Burt Bacharach and Don Randi score books. Bob Dylan, Otis Redding, Brian Wilson, the Bee Gees, the Doors and Jefferson Airplane are all in the journey. Dr. James Cushing has contributed insightful, illuminating commentary. There's a piece on Harvey's book in the issue of "Rolling Stone" with Chuck Berry on the front cover. 10 books for Harvey. Once in a while the good guys win."

On Tuesday, October 10, 2017, the well respected music website, www.forgottenhits.com displayed Harvey Kubernik's correspondence with portal owner Kent Kotal concerning Tom Petty. Harvey had some professional and personal dealings with Tom. As MCA Records West Coast Director of A&R in 1978 he initially suggested Jimmy Iovine as producer for Petty's Damn The Torpedoes album. Harvey later served as "Organic Catalyst" on the Petty-produced Del Shannon album, Drop Down and Get Me. As a music journalist he interviewed Petty for Melody Maker. Tom Petty wrote the foreword ito Harvey's 2014 book, Turn Up The Radio Rock, Pop, and Roll in Los Angeles 1956-1972.

A 2010 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with filmmaker Murray Lerner on his Leonard Cohen Live at the Isle of Wight DVD was posted on the www.cohenconcentric.com website, a portal Leonard endorsed and collaborated with.

On September 18th, Cave Hollywood posted Harvey Kubernik's article about Criterion Collection's re-release of Murray Lerner's Festival.


Jarkko Arjatsalo who operates and oversees leonardcohenfiles.com, a website Leonard Cohen collaborated with, has posted Harvey Kubernik's 14,000 word memoir multi-voice narrative tribute to Cohen.

Harvey Kubernik's extensive interview with filmmaker Murray Lerner who directed the influential music documentary Festival! is now exhibited on cavehollywood.com.

Helen Marketti's interview with Harvey Kubernik and his 1967 Summer of Love title appears in the new September 13th-October 11th issue of the Cleveland, Ohio-based publication "North Coast Voice." VIEW IT HERE!

Harvey Kubernik's 1976 and 1999 interviews with Walter Becker of Steely Dan were displayed on www.forgottenhits.com, on September 6, 2017. The Becker/Steely Dan piece is now online at cavehollywood.com.

Wednesday, September 20th at 11:20 a.m. (PST) Harvey Kubernik discussed his book, 1967 A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love (Sterling) for the Australian ABC Radio program Overnights. http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/overnights/. Kubernik's live half hour interview was conducted by Trevor Chappell. The program is national with half a million listeners and is heard at 4:20-5:00 am live in Australia. Later in the year Kubernik will return to discuss his acclaimed study on Leonard Cohen, Everybody Knows (BackBeat Books) in the U.S. and published in six foreign language editions.

Friday, September 15, 2017 - 1 p.m. - 2 p.m., Bogata, Columbia. SIXTY-SEVEN, a new seven-part series. Deejay/host Andrew Loog Oldham, legendary first manager of The Rolling Stones, record producer and raconteur, explores the year of the appearance of the American Hippie - its music, politics, lifestyle, hopes and drugs. Drawing on Danny Goldberg's In Search of the Lost Chord, Eric Luft's Die at the Right Time and Harvey Kubernik's 1967 - A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love. [Repeated Sunday 11am.] - It'll air each Friday between 7 p.m.-8 p.m. (BST) - A repeat will air each Sunday between 11 a.m. - 12:00. First programme airs on Resonance FM on Friday 15th September. Programmes will also be available on the Resonance FM Mixcloud account after they air.

In the October issue of Goldmine magazine, Gillian G. Gaar's Quick Picks article summarizes Harvey Kubernik's 1967: A COMPLETE ROCK MUSIC HISTORY OF THE SUMMER OF LOVE, Sterling Publishing (Hardback), Genre: Music History. "This beautifully illustrated book takes you step by step not just through that fabled summer, but the entire year, from the “Human Be-In” in San Francisco in January, through Monterey in June, to Otis Redding’s death in December."

A 2006 Interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker is quoted in Dont Look Back by author Keith Beattie, a BFI (British Film Institute) book published in 2016 by Palgrave, a UK division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Harvey Kubernik is a contributor to the just published book Bob Marley and the Wailers The Ultimate Illustrated History written by Richie Unterburger from Voyageur Press.

An excerpt from Harvey Kubernik's book, 1967: A Complete Rock Music History of The Summer of Love, reprinted with permission, is a multi-page display in the August 2017 issue of Shindig! magazine.


Harvey Kubernik's interview with author Ronnie Schneider on his 2017 book Out Of Our Heads: The Rolling Stones, the Beatles and Me with Proof of Truth is now displayed on cavehollywood.com.

On Friday, August 18th, 2017 Harvey Kubernik was the guest speaker at the Stephen Wise Temple in Bel-Air, California celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. The Shabbat service was followed by a concert featuring music from 1967 performed by the Stephen Wise clergy and musicians. Featured vocalists were Freda Payne and Florence LaRue of the 5th Dimension. Kubernik helped curate and narrate a stage program of music culled from his book 1967: A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love.

August 24th, 2017 | 7:00 PM Tune in to The Summer of Love Part Two on Kffi, a very special radio show in Kansas City will celebrate The Summer of Love ... The show will take a look back at the music and the artists surfacing out the 60's and specifically 1967. In addition to lots of great music, author and artist Harvey Kubernik will be interviewed.

Harvey Kubernik's story on the theatrical release of the music documentary movie Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World is now displayed on cavehollywood.com.

A Harvey Kubernik 2000 interview with onetime Rolling Stones' manager/record producer Andrew Loog Oldham quoted in Joseph's McComb's OUT magazine August 2017 article on Beatles' manager Brian Epstein. More here.

Harvey Kubernik's *1967: A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love*, reviewed & recommended at curledup.com.

Fred Mills’ stellar review of Harvey Kubernik’s new book in Blurt Magazine has just been displayed in total on the Forgotten Hits 1967 Bonus Blogspot. Click the link and scroll down to see more good press at The Blurt Music Book Summer Reading List - Blurt Magazine

Monday, July 17 Journalist Gary Pig Gold touts the new Harvey Kubernik 1967 Summer of Love title. Check it out HERE!

Harvey Kubernik has just returned from his book signing, lecture, and audience question and answer session on his 1967 Summer of Love chronicle in Cleveland, Ohio, in the Library Speaker's Series of the prestigious ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME. Harvey's been invited back to the venue in the future.

Breaking News! Harvey Kubernik has just inked a book deal with Sterling Publishers, owned by Barnes and Noble, to write The Story of The Band. Publication date is late summer, 2018, and will coincide with the 50th anniversary of their epochal debut album, Music From Big Pink. Kubernik attended the Band's "The Last Waltz" event in 1976, and has interviewed members of the influential group.

July 9, 2017 Michael Fremer's AnalogPlanet review of "1967" Harvey Kubernik's Summer of Love Chronicle begins, "Anyone who thinks "The Summer of Love" was a media creation simply wasn't there. Like many baby boomers, Kubernik was there. Unlike many of us though, he was there with photographers Henry Diltz and Guy Webster among others, both of whom gave the rock culture chronicler access to their photos for this highly entertaining, image filled and recollection rich book." Click the link to read the entire review posted at analogplanet.com.

MONDAY, JULY 3RD, 11:20 PST Harvey Kubernik was the feature interview subject discussing his Neil Young Heart of Gold book for the Australian ABC Radio program Overnights. Kubernik's half hour interview on Young's 1966-1976 work is the main focus of the 4:20-5:00 am live in Australia interview. The show is national with half a million listeners. Future July and August Kubernik return visits to the station will spotlight his Leonard Cohen Everybody Knows book and his 1967 A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love volume. Click here to listen to the show now.

June 30th, 2017 The Frame | 89.3 KPCC, is a daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts and entertainment produced by Southern California Public Radio. Today, host John Horn interviewed Harvey Kubernik about his new book, “1967: a Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love," that tracks the iconic moments and movements of that pivotal time in pop culture. To hear it all, click the following link, because The Summer of Love was about more than just music.

Harvey Kubernik cited and quoted in Michael Limnios 2017 appreciation of Allen Ginsberg. Read the tribute HERE!

April 18, 2017 1967: A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love is groovy. ... Harvey Kubernik has put together a graphically sensational, beautifully narrated, jam-packed encyclopedia of ... fantastic graphics on each and every page, or you can sit down and read the narration or even the eyewitness accounts. Read the review at All Music Books | Waiting to take you away

Sunday, June 25th, on Head Room with Barry Smolin, 8PM-10PM (PST) KPFK 90.7 FM, author and music historian Harvey Kubernik discussed his book, 1967 A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love. Interview with Harvey began at 8:15 pm. Listen to the entire show.

The July issue of Record Collector news magazine features Harvey Kubernik's multi-voice cover story on the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and the 50th anniversary of this landmark album as well as a Kubernik appreciation of John Coltrane. It can also be viewed at www.recordcollectornews.com
Published in June 2017 from tgophoto.com is a new book "GUNDELFINGER Memoirs of a Rock & Roll Photographer From Monterey Pop To Deja Vu & Beyond" that features 1967-1972 photos by Tom Gundelfinger O'Neal along with text written by Harvey & Kenneth Kubernik.

Clive Davis interview with Harvey Kubernik in "1967: A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love" quoted in The Los Angeles Times cover story about the 50th anniversary of the Monterey International Pop Festival on Sunday, June 11, 2017 by writer Randy Lewis.

On Sunday, June 11th at 1:00 pm (PST), Harvey Kubernik was interviewed live on KCSN-FM (88.5) Tangled Roots program hosted by Pat Baker. Music from 1967 underscored the visit. The first hour is a salute to the 50th anniversary of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The second hour spotlights Harvey's new book "1967: A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love."

Saturday, June 3, 2017 9:25 AM, Weekend Warrior Digital Rundown... Author Harvey Kubernik was the interview subject on The Weekend Warrior Show radio program with Dr. Robert Klapper on Saturday June 3rd, between 8:00-8:45 am (PST) discussing his new book 1967 The Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love.

Mark Nardone of MUSIC CONNECTION, a national publication found monthly in select booksellers, all Barnes & Noble stores in America, and at 30+ music conferences, submitted this much-appreciated review of Kubernik's 1967: A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love. MUSIC CONNECTION is also available in a Digital Edition (including video and audio content) at www.musicconnection.com/digital.

On Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017, Michael Simmons released this 4 star interview of Harvey Kubernik's "1967: A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love" for the July 2017 issue of MOJO Magazine, Musical memories and images from a year-long summer.

There wasn’t competition in the air but collaboration everywhere,” writes Harvey Kubernik in his technicolourfully illustrated, oral history of that blissful blip called The Summer Of Love. The native Angeleno and vet scribe is the perfect age to have participated in -- as well as accurately chronicle -- the time when optimism ran joyously rampant (despite the looming tragedy of Vietnam) and was channeled through rock and soul music that had entered "the realm of aesthetics."

With the advent of light show-lit ballrooms and underground/pirate radio, the inmates were rocking the asylum, with visionary possibilities exponentially expanding via cannabis and acid.

The book’s authenticity stems from the hundred interviews the author conducted and has excerpted, including icons and movers (Andrew Loog Oldham is his usual wildly witty self) and the young people who comprised the largest bohemian movement in history.

On May 21st, 2017, Richard Williams,' in his thebluemoment.com review of "1967: A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love." wrote "Harvey’s book moves mostly between San Francisco and Los Angeles on its journey from January to December, with detours to Monterey and London. Some of the oral history — from backroom people like Andrew Loog Oldham, Shel Talmy and Bones Howe as well as stars such as Jerry Garcia, Al Kooper and Carlos Santana — is of rich in opinion and anecdote, despite being mostly divided into bite-sized chunks and arranged around the visual material. There are some real gems, as when the actress Peggy Lipton, one of the great beauties of the time, tells Kubernik about her Monterey Pop Festival experience: “There was a light drizzle and we went to hear Ravi Shankar. I remember I left my body.”

On Monday, May 1st, 2017, Harvey Kubernik, author of 1967, A complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love and Barry Cain, author of 77 Sulphate Strip are UK-based deejay Pete Mitchell's guests on his “This Week in Music” radio channel Apple iTunes, and iHeart Radio hour-long radio series, heard by 3.5 million listeners. Kubernik will talk about his book what was happening and what was changing in pop music 50 years ago, and Cain will be talking about his book and the changes in the pop music of 40 years ago, brought about in large part by the punk artists. Please visit the website for broadcast schedule and weekly Kubernik and Mitchell interview information. This Week in Music Podcast 1st - 6th May, 2017

On April 28th, , Harvey Kubernik was the guest interview subject on the Dublin, Ireland-based program Union Square hosted by Eoghan Barra broadcast on Dublin Digital Radio (DDR) and now displayed on podcast. Listen on link https://www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigitalRadio/union-square-with-eoghan-barra-episode-8-the-summer-of-love-ddr/.

Harvey Kubernik's 2 page multi-voice narrative and examination of The TAMI Show/The Big TNT Show (Collector's Edition) 2-Disc Vlu-Ray DVD on Shout! Factory was published in the spring 2017 issue # 44 of Ugly Things magazine.

Wednesday, April 26th, Don't miss Hector Saldana's book review in mySanAntonio.com Summer of Love captured in "1967" writes, "The year is ownderfully captured in his (Harvey Kubernik's) new book, "1967: A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love."

April 24th, Harvey Kubernik interview with Leonard Cohen cited in the spring 2017 first collection of essays on Leonard Cohen in the UK by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in the book Spirituality and Desire in Leonard Cohen’s Songs and Poems: Visions from the Tower of Song, edited by Peter Billingham.

Real Gone Music and their Verbum Series label in spring 2017 reissued on red vinyl Allen Ginsberg Reads Kaddish A 20th Century American Ecstatic Narrative Poem. Harvey Kubernik is thanked in the sleeve credits and a portion of a 2005 Kubernik interview with producer Jerry Wexler is the closing paragraph of the producer liner notes.

April 21st, Harvey Kubernik's "How Elton John broke America" article displayed on www.rocksbackpages.com the ultimate library of rock music writing and journalism. Online site touts new Kubernik book title. Essential Reading: Harvey Kubernik's new summer-of-love opus

April 14: A new 272-page, coffee-table book—1967: A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love—celebrates the music and youth culture of that pivotal year that gave us Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Doors and so much more. Written by Harvey Kubernik, a veteran California-based author and journalist, the 9 3/4″ x 11 1/2″ book, out April 18 from Sterling Publishing, takes a month-by-month look at the musical happenings of the year, including rock, Rhythm and Blues and more. Pre-order is available here.

Both the American and British rock scenes are covered extensively—the hip young bands such as Jefferson Airplane and Procol Harum, hitmakers like the Monkees, the Beach Boys and the Turtles, and soul from Motown and Stax—with hundreds of first-hand recollections from artists, fans, critics, music industry executives and others. Hundreds of color and black-and-white photos, as well as period-specific art, are included. Events such as the Monterey Pop Festival, love-ins and the 14-Hour Technicolor Dream concert in London (which featured newcomers Pink Floyd) are also spotlighted. See the article at Best Classic Bands.

On Wednesday, April 19th, Kubernik interview with Howard Kaylan of the Turtles cited by John R. Kruth in The Observer in his article, Can a 50-Year-Old Pop Album Stop Us From Destroying Each Other?"

On Tuesday, April 18th, Cave Hollywood displayed Harvey Kubernik's story on Elton John and the story behind the expanded edition of his 17-11-70+ double LP vinyl being released by the Universal Music label in conjunction with Record Store Day April 22nd. Besides some reflections by Elton, the text also includes comments from Danny Hutton of Three Dog Night, who first covered the John/Bernie Taupin songwriting team, as well as an interview with visionary record executive Russ Regan, the former Vice-President of UNI/MCA Records, who signed Elton John to the label in 1970.

April, Harvey Kubernik’s 2002 interview with Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones is displayed on the website www.cavehollywood.com. An authorized documentary on Wyman, The Quiet One, will be distributed in North America during 2017 by Sundance Selects.

On Monday, March 27, 2017, Harvey Kubernik and Stephen Jones of Babybird were interviewed for “This Week in Music” radio channel Apple iTunes, and iHeart Radio hour-long radio series by UK-based deejay Pete Mitchell. The debut program will be broadcast during April 3rd-10th. Kubernik will be Mitchell’s weekly interview subject whose popular show is heard by 3.5 million listeners. Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Bill Haley, Oasis, Henry Mancini, Al Green, Tiny Tim, Herbie Hancock, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and the Clash will be among the initial recording artists discussed, along with a discussion of the popularity of online music streaming. Please visit the website for broadcast schedule and weekly Kubernik and Mitchell interview information. This Week in Music Podcast 10th - 17th April, 2017

On March 20, 2017, Andy Greene, Senior writer for Rolling Stone magazine, conducted an interview with Harvey Kubernik for a story in their mid-April issue about the April 2017 publication of Harvey's book, 1967 A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love from Sterling Publishing, a wholly owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble. When it appeared, the periodical displayed the front cover image of the book, and in his review, Andy Greene wrote "Packed with new interviews with principals like Carlos Santana, Michelle Phillips and Roger McGuinn, it gives month-by-month accounts of the scenes in London, San Francisco, New York, and even Australia, where the Bee Gees were scoring their first hits."

On March 26, 2017: Harvey Kubernik's 5,000 word profile and interview with Robbie Robertson of the Band, with a spotlight on Robertson's autobiography Testimony and album of the same title, will grace the cover of Record Collector News magazine's April/May issue and online at www.recordcollectornews.com.

The May-June issue of Recorde Collector News will have Kubernik's cover story on virtuoso guitarist Robin Trower as well as a Harvey's multi-voice narrative article on the acclaimed Frank Sinatra 1967 album with Brazilian music legend Antonio Carlos Jobim, Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim that is now expanded for its 50th Anniversary Edition, just issued on CD and digitally from Universal Music Enterprises.

March 18, 2017: Harvey Kubernik 2006 interview with Marshall Chess and 2002 interview with Bill Wyman incorporated in the Forgotten Hits tribute to Chuck Berry. that can be viewed at www.ForgottenHits.com.

The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader by David Brackett, Associate Professor at the Department of Research in the Schulich School of Music at McGill University was recently published by Oxford University. The book, now in a third edition, includes excerpts from “No Town Like Motown. Berry Gordy: a conversation with Mr. Motown,” a 2002 interview conducted by Harvey Kubernik. The collection features over 100 readings from a wide range of sources and writers including LeRoi Jones, Nat Hentoff, Jerry Wexler and David Ritz, Richard Cromelin, Irwin Silber, Paul Nelson, Jim Delehant, Phyl Garland, Andrew Sarris, Ellen Willis, Ralph J. Gleason, Cameron Crowe, Nelson George, John Mendelsohn, Greil Marcus, Ben Fong-Torres, Jon Pareles, and Camille Paglia.

March 12, 2017: Harvey Kubernik interview with photographer Jimmy Steinfeldt introduces Steinfeldt's new book "Rock 'N' Roll Lens Volume 11: 30 Years of Music Photography and Stories" published in 2017 by Point...Shoot...Press. Steinfeldt's pictures are accompanied by text stories from musicians Kenny Aronoff, Clem Burke, Del Casher, Blondie Chaplin, Steve Jones, David Was, Waddy Wachtel, Larry Dunn, Norwood Fisher, Leland Sklar, Rami Jaffee, Danny Saber, Sirius Trixon, Nick St. Nicholas, and Slim Jim Phantom, along with other commentaries supplied by multi-instrumentalists, singers, deejays, actresses, actors, writers and talent managers.

Harvey Kubernik 1976 interview with Steely Dan members Donald Fagen and Walter Becker quoted in the book Steely Dan: Reelin' In The Years by Brian Sweet, published in 2016 by Overlook-Omnibus.

Harvey Kubernik's article on the Kinks new Mono Collection box set is now available to read on Cave Hollywood.com.

Harvey Kubernik acknowledged in the book Conversations With The Masters The VintageRock.com Interviews by Shawn Perry.

Gregory Weinstein, visiting professor at Davidson College in his 2015-2017 music course MUS122 Music of the United States Fall 2015 - Courses is utilizing Harvey Kubernik’s, “Berry Gordy: A Conversation with Mr. Motown” 2002 interview as a PDF for students along with a previously published music writing from Jon Landau, “A Whiter Shade of Black” (PDF) in one classroom session. Listen requirements include Gladys Knight and the Pips, “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” • Marvin Gaye, “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” • The Supremes, “You Can’t Hurry Love” • The Four Tops, “Bernadette.”

During July 2015, Kubernik gave an extensive interview and provided an archive interview he conducted with Andrew Loog Oldham in 2007 to author Jonathan Gould for his book, Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life that Crown Archetype Group will publish May 16, 2017.

Kubernik' article on Otis Redding published in Goldmine Magazine in 2007 is also listed in acknowledgements and credits in "Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul" by Mark Ribowsky, published by W.W. Norton in 2015.

Harvey Kubernik interviewed about singer and songwriter Paul Rogers and Free back album catalogue by author Lonn Friend for his Rogers biography being penned for Free reunion May 2017 “Free Spirt” tour in the UK that will draw attention to Willows Animal Sanctuary & Assisted Therapy Unit.

Northwestern University History and American Studies Winter 2017 Course: US Popular Music History – Michael J. Kramer in week six will include a discussion on Motown Records utilizing Harvey Kubernik's 2002 interview with Berry Gordy, Jr. "Berry Gordy: A Conversation with Mr. Motown" that appears in Kubernik's 2004 book "This Is Rebel Music."

In Hot winter reads from Edmonton AM - Edmonton - CBC News, Harvey Kubernik’s book on Leonard Cohen, Everybody Knows, is hailed as one of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation morning show’s top picks for your 2017 reading list.

A portion of Harvey Kubernik’s archive interview with record producer and songwriter, Willie Mitchell, will appear in author Jimmy McDonough’s Soul Survivor: A Biography of Al Green that will be published on August 29, 2017 by Da Capo Press. Kubernik also receives a big thank you in the book credits.

The Roots of Indie: The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo album was recently explored on www.diffuder.fm by James Stafford. Harvey Kubernik’s interview with Roger McGuinn of the band, initially published in Kubernik’s Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon was incorporated in the piece.

Harvey Kubernik’s article in Goldmine magazine on Bob Dylan’s album John Wesley Harding cited on the Bob Dylan Commentaries website.

A 2014 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with Graham Nash about Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s recording of Neil Young’s song “Ohio” is now referenced in the Library of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame under Articles - Reactions to the Kent State Shootings. . The full interview is archived at www.rocksbackpages.com.

An excerpt from Harvey Kubernik’s book Hollywood Shack Job Rock Music In Film and on Your Screen currently utilized in the promotional materials on the theatrically screened music documentary on Doug Sahm, Sir Doug & the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove, directed by Joe Nick Patoski. In 2015, Variety touted Patoski as one of “the ten documakers to watch.”

Writer Andrew August in The Journal of Contemporary British History on his article "Gender and 1960s Youth Culture: The Rolling Stones and the New Woman" cites Harvey Kubernik's 2004 book This is Rebel Music from University of New Mexico Press.

Harvey Kubernik’s 1996 interview with Allen Ginsberg about his recording “The Ballad of the Skeletons” published on the front page in “The Los Angeles Times” Calendar section is now displayed at openculture.com.
Music journalist Harvey Kubernik, author of “Turn Up The Radio, Rock, Pop and Roll in Los Angeles 1956-1972,” joined Ira David Sternberg on “Talk About Las Vegas With Ira,” Thursday, March 2nd, at 8 p.m. on KUNV-FM (91.5) and online at www.915thesource.org. After the show aired, it was posted at www.talkaboutlasvegas.com.

Kubernik and Sternberg discussed Kubernik's book Turn Up The Radio! Rock, Pop, and Roll in Los Angeles 1956-1972, published in 2014 by Santa Monica Press. Harvey recalled the music he heard in that golden sound era as a youth from downtown Los Angeles, Crenshaw Village, Culver City, West Hollywood to Laurel Canyon.

Previous guests who have appeared on Sternberg’s influential radio program have included Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, Whoopi Goldberg, Amy Schumer, Lily Tomlin, Blue Man Group, Dick Dale, Ramsey Lewis, Willie Nelson, Kamasi Washington, Dion, and Graeme Edge of the Moody Blues.

In March, Harvey and his brother Kenneth Kubernik, authors of A Perfect Haze: The Illustrated History of the Monterey International Pop Festival, published by Santa Monica Press in 2012, festival organizer Lou Adler and Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane, filmmakers Andrew Solt and D.A. Pennebaker, writer Paul Body and photographers Tom Gundelfinger O'Neal and Henry Diltz have been taped among the interview subjects to be taped in the National Public Radio (NPR) studios in Culver City, California for a radio documentary special produced and hosted by Paul Ingles about the landmark 1967 music festival. The program will air nationally and globally in May. In 2007, Harvey wrote a cover story in MOJO magazine about the 40th anniversary of the Monterey International Pop Festival event.

Harvey Kubernik has been heard in previous Ingles-produced NPR broadcasts on the Beatles’ Rubber Soul and Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks. In 2003 Paul Ingles was awarded the Edward R. Murrow Award from the RTNDA for Best use of Sound in a piece produced for NPR’s Living on Earth.

February 12: Harvey Kubernik's tribute to the late Ritchie Yorke, author, broadcaster and music writer from Brisbane, Australia is displayed on the February 12, 2017 www.forgottenhits.com website. Ritchie Yorke, Brisbane music writer, dies at 73. "I am so unhappy to hear this. I cherish the couple of hangs and meals I had with Ritchie when he came to Los Angeles. I am grateful to Roger Steffens, who first extended a dinner invite to his home to meet and eat with Ritchie and his wife Minnie and the Steffens family. Ritchie regaled us with his memories of 1957 and 1958 Australia music tours he witnessed of Bill Haley & the Comets, LaVern Baker, Big Joe Turner, Freddie Bell and the Platters as well as Little Richard, Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps, and Eddie Cochran. Jerry Lee Lewis, Paul Anka and Buddy Holly & the Crickets and a geezer from Oz named Johnny O'Keefe. Ritchie also took good care of my friends Kim and Rodney at the 1969 Toronto Rock and Roll Revival Festival and was always an avid supporter of John & Yoko's peace activities. I flash on my book exchanges with Ritchie, my autographed books of his, and his quotes and archive interviews that inform my books on Leonard Cohen and Neil Young as well as his reflections and archive interviews on Otis Redding and Van Morrison that will appear in my next book on the rock music of 1967. He was my first scribe in the rock 'n' roll tribe. Carry On." -- Harvey Kubernik.

February 10: Forgotten Hits Newsletter featuring the April 18th publication date for Harvey Kubernik's latest book, 1967: A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love, includes a complete Travis Pike interview on the Summer of Love that goes way beyond Pike’s sidebar in the book.

February 8: Harvey Kubernik's interview with Paul Tarnopol of Brunswick Records, home of the immortal Jackie Wilson, is up on the Cave Hollywood website and can be read at http://cavehollywood.com/harvey-kubernik-interviews-brunswick-records-paul-tranopol/

February 8: Harvey Kubernik's 1996 interview with poet and writer Allen Ginsberg, edited by David Calonne, will be published by The University Press of Mississippi in their Fall 2018 book, Conversations with Allen Ginsberg.

January 20: Blurt magazine hails Harvey Kubernik's book on Leonard Cohen, Everybody Knows. Now published in a Russian edition. HALLELUJAH: The Blurt Leonard Cohen Files __ Blurt Magazine It's fascinating to note that prior to Cohen's latter day comeback there hadn't been too many books published about him. Then there was Everybody Knows, published in late 2014 by esteemed music book publisher Backbeat and written by the equally esteemed journalist and author Harvey Kubernik. Rich in photos, many of them rare or previously unseen, and arranged as an oral history along an annotated time-line plus the author's connective narrative, the coffee table book is not only quite handsome, it's a solid reference work. As I put it, bone could easily use this as a primary source when researching specific details and events of Cohen's life.

Of additional note: Kubernik skillfully avoids the key pitfalls that plague most oral histories; his aforementioned connecting text includes notes on his respondents so the reader understands their significance and relevance, while the aforementioned time-line structure proves to be the book's greatest strength in terms of providing a real sense of the arc of Cohen's career.

January 29: Record Collector News magazine just published Harvey Kubernik's cover story on The Kinks In Mono LP box set recently issued by BMG. The March and April issue of Record Collector News magazine cover story will feature a Kubernik interview with the Band's songwriter/guitarist and author, Robbie Robertson, and be posted on the Record Collector News website.

January 2017 also marked the publication of a Chinese edition of Harvey Kubernik's book on Leonard Cohen "Everybody Knows."

January 14: Cave Hollywood displayed Harvey Kubernik's feature on The Band's The Last Waltz new DVD and CD soundtrack, including Harvey's archive interview with Robbie Robertson of the Band.

January 13: In the The Reading Eagle newspaper Money section an article by Lisa Scheid on C.F. "Chris" Martin IV, chairman and CEO of C.F. Martin & Co., lists and touts "his favorite summer book as Harvey Kubernik's 'Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon.'"

January 9: Harvey Kubernik's joint interview with songwriter/poet Stephen J. Kalinich on his new California Feeling 2 multi-artist tribute vinyl album and MsMusic label owner Carol Schofield can be read HERE.

January 8th at 6:00 pm: Author and music historian Harvey Kubernik will return to host My Turn on The Sound (100.3 FM) radio station in Los Angeles that will be broadcast on Sunday, January 8th at 6:00 pm. My Turn is one of The Sound’s most talked about on-air features where guest artists and personalities take over The Sound’s airwaves as deejays for an hour over Southern California’s classic rock station. Harvey will provide commentary on his track selections for the Los Angeles radio stations’ 1.3 million listeners in Southern California on the popular Sunday evening 6:00 pm slot. You may hear the show online at KSWD.radio.net.

January 8: Harvey Kubernik's video interview with bandleader Greg Franco of Rough Church on their just released Queen's Sacrifice album can be viewed and heard on www.roughchurch.com.

January 7: Harvey Kubernik was interviewed by author Richard Houghton for his book on the Who which will be published by UK publisher Red Planet. Houghton earlier co-authored The Beatles book "I Was There."

January 4: Cave Hollywood is displaying Harvey Kubernik's story on the new Iggy Pop book "Total Chaos" and interview with author Jeff Gold.

January 4: Photos from Harvey Kubernik's 2014 book "Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows" were featured on the official Leonard Cohen Face Book Page Thursday (04 January 2017) morning.

2016

Saturday, December 31, Weekend Warrior Digital Rundown: HR 1: The Best of Continues... Weekend Warrior program ESPN 710 AM radio executive producer, Jared Abrams is back in the host seat as he continues to play some of the best interviews that Doctor Klapper did throughout 2016. Interviews this hour include author and music historian Harvey Kubernik A 15 minute segment where Harvey talks to Dr. Klapper about guitarists Duane Allman, Eric Clapton, Dick Dale, instrument maker Leo Fender and engineer/producer Tom Dowd.

December 30: Harvey Kubernik March 1, 1975 interview with Leonard Cohen published in "Melody Maker" about his album "New Skin for Old Ceremony” spotlighted on cohencentric.com.

December: Harvey Kubernik Cave Hollywood 2010 interview with Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane quoted and cited in Neil Hussey's feature article on the band in issue 62 of U.K.-based Shindig! magazine.

Mid-December: Cave Hollywood is posting Harvey Kubernik's story and review on Bob Marley & the Wailers - Live!, a three-LP set in 180-gram black vinyl, digital release and tri-gatefold package that The Marley Family and UMe label have just issued. The expanded retail product includes both nights of the historic 1975 concert at the Lyceum Theatre in London. Harvey witnessed multiple shows by Marley & the Wailers on that same 1975 tour at the Roxy Theater in West Hollywood and later interviewed the band.

December: Harvey Kubernik is acknowledged in Shawn Perry's debut book "Conversations With The Masters: The VintageRock.com Interviews," published in December 2016.

DECEMBER: Record Collector News magazine has a Harvey Kubernik-penned cover story on two legendary rock music movies, The T.A.M.I. Show and The Big T.N.T. Show, just released on Blu-Ray from Shout! Factory. The same issue will include a Kubernik article on the new book just published by Third Man Books, TOTAL CHAOS: The Story of The Stooges As Told by Iggy Pop.

Later in December: Harvey Kubernik was just taped as the guest interview subject for The Tom Dunne Show on newstalk 106-108 FM radio and web, Ireland's National Independent Broadcaster. Kubernik discusses the poet and novelist Charles Bukowski. Broadcast is later in December. Harvey has an essay on Bukowski in the book Drinking with Bukowski, which features a cover design by R. Crumb.

December: Harvey Kubernik was interviewed about the Beatles debut America tour of 1964 with Pete Mitchell on his This Day in Music Radio Channel Apple iTunes music podcast to air later in December. Kubernik and Mitchell previously pre-taped hour shows on Bob Dylan and one that has already aired on Led Zeppelin. In addition, Mitchell interviewed Kubernik, along with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member, singer Darlene Love, for a seasonal show in late December spotlighting the landmark album "A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector."

Out Now: Harvey Kubernik’s 2015 book on Leonard Cohen, "Everybody Knows," now out in six foreign languages, was published in a paperback edition this week by Omnibus Press in the UK.

WINTER 2016-17: Harvey Kubernik has two pieces in issue #43 of Ugly Things, a feature article about the Turtles new box set including interviews with Howard Kaylan, founder and lead singer; and co-founder, vocalist and songwriter Mark Volman; and a feature interview with sixties rocker and Hollywood multi-hyphenate Travis Pike whose music sequences from the 1966 movie, Feelin’ Good, have been restored and are now posted on YouTube.

November 29: Cave Hollywood posted Harvey Kubernik's article on the just re-released Duane Allman an Anthology 2-LP vinyl.

TODAY, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27: From 9:00-11:00 PM in Ireland (1:00-3:00 PM, PST), Harvey Kubernik was the guest interview subject in the second hour on The Tom Dunne Show on newstalk 106-108 FM radio and web, Ireland's National Independent Broadcaster. Kubernik will discuss the Band's The Last Waltz concert in San Francisco, California, now celebrating a 40th anniversary as well as his 2014 book on Leonard Cohen, "Everybody Knows." Kubernik was in attendance at The Last Waltz event and covered the musical action for UK's Melody Maker.

NOVEMBER 10, 2016: A 1975 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with Leonard Cohen for "Melody Maker" was included in Heather Saul's tribute to Cohen in the November 10th issue of The Independent newspaper in London, England. The Cohen quotes to Kubernik conclude the article titled "Leonard Cohen dead: Iconic musician's most perceptive quotes on life, love and death."

NOVEMBER 2016: Harvey Kubernik was interviewed by UK-based DJ Pete Mitchell for his hour long This Day in Music radio channel Apple iTunes music podcast about the early career of Led Zeppelin and their debut expedition of the United States in 1969.

ATTENTION: On Wednesday, November 23rd at 1:00 pm (PST) Harvey Kubernik will be the guest interview subject on The Tom Dunne Show on newstalk 106-108 FM radio and web, Ireland's National Independent Broadcaster.

November 15: Harvey Kubernik's 2015 book on Leonard Cohen cited in Zach Schonfeld's Stereogum appreciation story on Leonard Cohen.

Also of note: In the just published 2016 book, "Rock 'N' Film: Cinema's Dance With Popular Music," by David E. James, published by Oxford University Press, Harvey Kubernik receives a front page listing in the Acknowledgements. In 2005, the University of New Mexico Press published Harvey Kubernik’s book Hollywood Shack Job Rock Music In Film and On Your Screen.

Breaking News: Already No. 2 on the UK Podcast Chart! Author and music historian Harvey Kubernik was interviewed at length by host and Award-winning DJ Pete Mitchell for his hour long This Day in Music radio channel iTunes music podcast about the just released Stones In Mono multi- disc 1963-1969 box set, and the band's never explored audio relationship with Hollywood recording studios in the sixties and seventies, to be broadcast starting November 15th. This Just In: This program and Kubernik's interview are now part of the official Rolling Stones app!

November 16: Kubernik's Tribute to Leon Russell is now up on www.cavehollywood.com.

November 12: Harvey Kubernik's 1975 interview with Leonard Cohen cited and quoted in The Los Angeles Times and online at www.latimes.com in music critic Randall Roberts Appreciation "Leonard Cohen Always Found Just The Right Words."

November 12: Two of Harvey Kubernik's mid-seventies archive interviews with Leonard Cohen requested are now on display at www.cavehollywood.com.

Saturday, November 19, 8:15 a.m., (PDT): Harvey Kubernik was a feature guest interview subject on "The Weekend Warrior" program hosted by Dr. Robert Klapper, M.D. on ESPNLA 710 am and ESPNLA.com. Klapper's program from 7-9:00 am is a mix of medicinal advice and music. Kubernik, who wrote a 2014 book on Leonard Cohen, "Everybody Knows," will discuss the musical legacy of Cohen as well as commenting on Bob Dylan, Otis Redding and the Rolling Stones.

November 11: Cavehollywood.com displays Harvey Kubernik's multi-voice narrative story on the 36-CD box set "Bob Dylan: The 1966 Live Recordings"

Also of note: Harvey Kubernik's interview with recording engineer Andy Johns is cited in Experiencing the Rolling Stones: A Listener’s Companion by David Malvinni, published by Towman & Littlefield in February 2016.

November: During November Kubernik will contribute a sidebar/review of the Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypys 1970 album for the upcoming book Jimi Hendrix: The Illustrated Story by Gillian G. Gaar to be published in the last quarter of 2017 by Voyageur Press. Kubernik is also contributing a sidebar essay to Voyageur’s Bob Marley: The Illustrated Story, by Richie Unterberger.

November: Cave Hollywood is displaying Kubernik's multi-voice narrative on the 50th anniversary edition of the Otis Redding Live at the Whisky a Go Go, The Complete Recordings, box set for for retail release in October.

3 November Big Shots: Rock Legends and Hollywood Icons: The Photography of Guy Webster, by Harvey Kubernik, Kenneth Kubernik and Guy Webster, writer, teacher, and musician, Michael Ruscoe, (lead singer and songwriter for the indie band Save the Androids), in his November booktrib.com article Rocking around the holidays with groovy photos of music icons, writes, “While San Francisco was home to the hippie movement, its neighbor to the south, Los Angeles, was the site of the head-on collision of the youth-fueled rock culture and the traditional entertainment industry. Bearing witness to it all was photographer and L.A. native Guy Webster, who, armed with his Nikon camera, helped define the visual nuances of the era. Beginning with his controversial cover shot of The Mamas and the Papas first album, Webster would go on to photograph musicians and actors (including Simon and Garfunkel, Jack Nicholson, Jane Fonda, Jim Morrison and Raquel Welch) whose work would go on to indelibly shape the decade. Big Shots is a fascinating overview of one of rock photography’s early innovators, whose career spanned more than 40 years.”

On October 22nd, Richard Lawson, Senior Broadcast Journalist for BBC Radio 5 live arranged for a live interview with Harvey Kubernik regarding Bob Dylan's failure to acknowledge his recent Nobel Prize award in Literature. Then, on October 30th, brought Harvey back for this follow-up to Bob Dylan's recent recognition of his selection.

On Monday night, October 24th, See Lonn Friend on Youtube, talking to Harvey Kubernik, his phone-in guest on Energize: The Lonn Friend Podcast discussing his recent visit to a Rolling Stones' band rehearsal in Burbank, California. After polite prodding, Kubernik, in a 20 minute phone conversation, detailed his expedition.

Coming In Early December: Ugly Things magazine will spotlight Kubernik's story on the Turtles and his interviews with Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, as well as a feature Q. and A. with contemporary renaissance man, Travis Edward Pike.

More October, 2016:The 4th week in October, Record Collector News magazine will publish Kubernik's cover story on The Stones In Mono box set and the band's October live dates with Bob Dylan at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, California, the annual site of the Coachella music festival, which should be online by the end of the month.

October, 2016: The first week of October, Cave Hollywood displayed Kubernik's multi-voice story and review of Motown The Sound of Young America, by Adam White with Barney Ales, with a foreword by Andrew Loog Oldham. Kubernik's article on the new Jimi Hendrix album Machine Gun: The Fillmore East First Show 12/31/69, will appear the second week of October, and in mid October, Cave Hollywood will display Kubernik's multi-voice narrative on the 50th anniversary edition of the Otis Redding Live at the Whisky a Go Go, The Complete Recordings, box set for for retail release in October.

Breaking News: Harvey Kubernik, who penned the current cover story in Record Collector News magazine on the Beatles' "Revolver" album at age 50, has just discussed "Revolver" with host and multi-Sony Award-winning DJ Pete Mitchell for his This Day in Music Radio channel iTunes music podcast. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN! Harvey was also nterviewed by Mitchell about Bob Dylan's 1965-1975 recorded catalog, and the upcoming Stones In Mono box set, and the band's never explored audio relationship with Hollywood recording studios in the sixties and seventies, to be broadcast during October.

In September, 2016: Cave Hollywood showcased Kubernik's features on The Ramones, Mike Love of the Beach Boys, and a eulogy tribute to music agent Jerry Heller, a portion of which was excerpted in The Los Angeles Times' in music critic's Randall Roberts September 6th story on Heller's legacy.

September 4th, 2016, Kubernik's cover story on the 50th anniversary of the Beatles "Revolver" is featured in Record Collector News magazine.

Friday, August 26: Now displayed on Cave Hollywood, Harvey Kubernik's extensive article on the new Rolling Stones in Mono Box collection, also includes text on the new Joel Selvin book about Altamont. Cave Hollywood now houses Kubernik's Beatles "Revolver" multi-voice narrative, and in early September, the site will also display Kubernik's review and story on the new book Motown The Sound of Young America, by Adam White with Barney Ales, including a foreword by Andrew Loog Oldham.

August 16th, 2016, Harvey Kubernik, who penned the liner notes to the 2008 Elvis Presley '68 Comeback Special box set for Sony/Legacy Records was the feature interview subject discussing Elvis Presley on host Pete Mitchell's This Day in Music Radio channel iTunes music podcast. Harvey will also discuss the Beatles "Revolver" album at age 50 for host Pete Mitchell's This Day in Music Radio Channel iTunes music podcast in late August.

On Thursday, August 11th, 2016, four photos from Kubernik's book, "Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows,"were posted on the official Leonard Cohen/Sony Entertainment administered Leonard Cohen Facebook page.

During August, 2016: Cave Hollywood has displayed Kubernik's tribute to comedian and philosopher Lenny Bruce, as well as a story later in the month, his multi-voice narrative examining a new book by Joel Selvin "Altamont": The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day."

August 1, 2016: Author Andrew Loog Oldham's 2 memoirs, Stoned" and "2Stoned" have just been listed in the New Musical Express list of 20 essential music books. Writer Harvey Kubernik contributed a stand-alone six page personal oral history chapter for ALO's "2Stoned". If you click on the link above, you'll have to scroll down to find the two books.

July 19, 2016: Harvey Kubernik's in-depth interview with singer/songwriter and producer Travis Pike about his new album "Outside the Box" is now on display at Cave Hollywood.

June 25, 2016: Harvey Kubernik was Board-Certified Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Robert Klapper's guest on his Weekend Warrior program on ESPN. Listen in on their conversation on this ESPN Weekend Warrior Podcast.

June 11, 2016: Don't miss Cave Hollywood's feature story by record producer/music publisher and rock 'n'; roll storyteller Kim Fowley on The Beatles as told to Harvey Kubernik.

June, 2016: Kubernik has just penned the upcoming cover story on Neil Young for the July/August issue of Record Collector News Magazine,to be published in late June. Kubernik is the author of the 2015 book "Neil Young Heart of Gold."

May 7, 2016: Harvey Kubernik's in-depth pictorial interview Travis Edward Pike A Contemporary Renaissance 50 Years in the Making is now posted.

Harvey Kubernik's author and music journalism endeavors are cited twice in the just published May 2016 book, "The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones" by Richard Cohen, published by Spiegel & Grau. Kubernik's book "Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon" included in the text and bibliography while his 2011 interview with engineer Andy Johns, initially in "Goldmine" magazine quoted in the book's pages.

Don't miss Harvey Kubernik's feature article on Haight-Ashbury to Sunset Strip, The Rise and Rise of Classic Rock now displayed on the UDiscover website. Kubernik's article and joint interview with filmmaker Colin Hanks, and Tower Records founder, Russ Solomon, on the highly acclaimed documentary "All Things Must Pass" will appear in May on the UDiscover website.

See Harvey Kubernik's current feature article announcing the May 6 release by Forty Below Records of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers Live in 1967 - Volume Two CD, feturing John Mayall, Peter Green, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood posted on Cave Hollywood, and a 2007 interview with Kim Fowley on the 1967 Summer of Love is also now displayed on the website.

Harvey Kubernik special thanks credit in 2016 MOJO '60s magazine issue in Bill Holdship's Out of Control article on the Monkees and their 1968 movie "Head."

April 24 2016: Big Shots: Rock Legends and Hollywood Icons: The Photography of Guy Webster Written and captioned by Harvey Kubernik, Kenneth Kubernik. Introduction by Brian Wilson just garnered a 2016 Gold Ink Awards - Hardcover Books Pewter Awards.

“Throughout his decades-long career, photographer Guy Webster has captured some of the most iconic figures in music, film and politics – from the Rolling Stones to Dean Martin to Bill Clinton – during their prime.”
—RollingStone.com

"A thrill for anyone interested in the L.A. music and film scene of the ’60s and ’70s, when artists were breaking boundaries and building a new aesthetic...In this age of Instagram and Tumblr and Snapchat, Webster’s photos remind readers of the beauty of a timeless picture."
—Variety

THIS JUST IN: Harvey Kubernik has joined interview subjects Shepard Fairey, Caleb Deschanel, and professional surfers Steve Olsen, Jeff Ho, and Shaun Tomson in director Christopher Sibley's documentary "Crazy World Ain't It. The Life and Times of John Van Hamersveld." The world premiere of the Van Hamersveld documentary will take place at Venice Beach, Ca. June 25th at the Rose Room venue. It is also scheduled for August 13th in Virginia Beach, Virginia, at Studio 17.

Excerpt of Harvey Kubernik’s 2012 interview with engineer Andy John’s on recording the Rolling Stones during Exile On Main Street utilized in "Experiencing the Rolling Stones: A Listener's Companion," by David Malvinni, (2016) Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

A portion of Harvey Kubernik's 2007 interview with record producer Bob Johnston used in author David Dalton 's 2016 book "Who Is That Man?: In Search of the Real Bob Dylan," Published by Hachette Book Group.

A 1988 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with arranger/producer Jack Nitzsche (originally published in Goldmine Magazine), incorporated in "Sonic Alchemy: Visionary Music Producers and Their Maverick Recordings" by David N. Howard, first published in 2004 by Hal Leonard Books, now out in 2016 paperback.

Harvey Kubernik's 1975 interview with Johnny Cash, first published in the music weekly Melody Maker, cited in "The Resurrection of Johnny Cash: Hurt, Redemption and American Recordings" By Graeme Thomson published by Jawbone Press in 2016.

An interview Harvey Kubernik conducted in 2000 with record producer Phil Spector initially published in Goldmine Magazine, "Phil Spector: From the Girl Groups of the '60s to the Beatles" acknowledged in "The Popular Music Teaching Handbook: An Educator's Guide to Music-Related Sources" By B. Lee Cooper, Rebecca A. Condon, recently published from Libraries Unlimited.

Don't miss Kubernik's Cave Hollywood feature article on Mary Wilson, an original member of the Supremes whose 2015 song, "Time to Move ON" climbed to #23 on the Billboard dance charts.

“Commissioned and released to coincide with Young’s 70th birthday, Neil Young Heart of Gold serves as a complete celebration of the life and work of a true Canadian rock legend. What makes it particularly special is Kubernik’s unique understanding of Canadian iconography as it pertains to the canon of rock ‘n’ roll. For someone who has never stepped foot in the country, he has an acute sense of both that which drives the Northern musical tradition and the artists that have helped to define our sound.” Canadian writer, Juliette Jagger’s excellent review of Harvey Kubernik’s “Neil Young Heart of Gold” appears in “A Journal of Musical Things.”

The April/May issue of Record Collector News magazine contains Kubernik's feature interviews with Marty Balin of the Jefferson Airplane and Mary Wilson of the Supremes. When published, stories may be viewed online at www.recordcollectornews.com. The May/June issue of the magazine will feature Kubernik’s cover story on Carlos Santana and an interview Harvey conducted with Carlos this past March. Kubernik last interviewed Carlos, along with Jerry Garcia and Bill Graham for “Melody Maker” in 1976. In addition to the Santana story, Kubernik also has a feature story on Darlene Love's new album, "Introducing Darlene Love, produced by (Little) Steven Van Zandt, and an examination of the Carole King 1967 album with The City, "Now That Everything's Been Said," just reissued by the Light In The Attic label.

The April 2016 issue of Ugly Things Magazine also reviews Kubernik's "Neil Young Heart of Gold" and includes Kubernik's David Bowie tribute feature, "Bowie in Los Angeles in the 70's"

See the Harvey Kubernik article on Sir George Martin published online March 11, 2016 by Cave Hollywood.

Harvey Kubernik thanked in author Barney Hoskyns'book "Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Froiends in the Wild Years of Woodstock" published in March 2016 by Da Capo Press.

Be sure to see Roy Trakin's Trakin Care of Business: Hit or Myth article that features another great review for Harvey Kubernik's, "Neil Young Heart of Gold," (Backbeat Books).

Harvey Kubernik was the featured interview on FM radio station and podcast of Dublin, Ireland-
based "Newstalk" program today. hosted by Tom Dunne, discussing the HBO TV series "Vinyl."

February 2016: Otherworld Cottage delivers on promise to post recording of Harvey Kubernik - Travis Edward Pike Audio Interview of 30 December 2015. Broadcasters, Podcasters, and Bloggers are invited to download, link, or play any or all of the informative 7 part interview.

2/8/2016: Writer Rebecca Bengal on Vogue.com cites Kubernik and his interview with director Baz Luhmann in her profile of songwriter eden ahbez's "Nature Boy."

February also saw Kubernik's interview articles on Brian Wilson, Ice Cube, and Oscar-winning director D.A. Pennebaker on his David Bowie documentray, "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" were all posted on Cave Hollywood.

We just learned that in the product package of the November 2015, Light in the Attic re-release of the Lou Adler-produced debut album by The City, the Carole King fronted group, "Now That Everything's Been Said" on vinyl format, liner notes from Steve Hochman, Kubernik received a thank you acknowledgement.

Jefferson Airplane founder, vocalist and lead guitarist, Paul Kantner died on January 28th, and Kubernik was contacted for quotes published in the Los Angeles Times, Billboard Magazine, posted here on the Yahoo Music page.

The good news on the 18th, was this MOJO article on Kubernik's "Neil Young: Heart of Gold" reprinted by Palazzo Editions.

Mark Myers posted on JazzWax.com, of "Neil Young: Heart of Gold" (Backbeat) by Harvey Kubernik, "If you're a Neil Young fan, you'll have a field day with this one. Kubernik writes smartly on Young's studio and live albums and provides a complete discography of the artist's recorded works. Kubernik is an engaging music writer, and there are loads of color photos and images of Young memorabilia."

Eagles founder Glenn Frey's death on February 18th resulted in more Kubernik quotes in the OC Register and talk about The Eagles co-founder with Steve Chiotakis on KCRW's Soundcloud leftcoast Magazine.

Harvey Kubernik interviews with David Bowie (1976), record producer Ken Scott (2013), and Oscar-winning director D.A. Pennebaker (2007) on his Bowie/"Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars" 1973 movie and current DVD will be included in the spring issue of Ugly Things magazine tribute to Bowie.

Kubernik's 2003 archive interview on David Bowie with Oscar-winning director D. A. Pennebaker, who directed "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars," has been reposted at Cave Hollywood, where you may also see Kubernik's January cover story on Ice Cube.

Harvey Kubernik’s 2005 book “Hollywood Shack Job Rock Music In Film and On Your Screen” cited in the 2013 Wayne State University Graduate School Dissertation of Doctor of Philosophy candidate Lara Rose Hrycaj What Is This Music? Auteur Music In The Films Of Wes Anderson.

On Monday, 11 January 2016, David Bowie succumbed to cancer and departed the planet. He was 69. In a sad, but timely note, Harvey Kubernik is cited in the text to "Rebel Rebel,” a book on David Bowie, written by Chris O’Leary, published by Zero Books in 2015.


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Sunday, December 20th at 6:00 p.m., Author and music historian Harvey Kubernik returned to host “MY TURN” on The Sound (103.1 FM) radio station in Los Angeles. "MY TURN" is one of The Sound's most talked about on-air features where guest artists and personalities take over The Sound's airwaves. Kubernik's DJ stint was an hour devoted to 12 Neil Young recordings that he selected from the station's library and from his own record collection. Kubernik provided commentary on Young's career for the Los Angeles radio station's 1.3 million listeners in Southern California. You may hear the show online at KSWD - 100.3 The Sound Los Angeles, CA - Listen Online.

UPDATE: GNP CRESCENDO RECORDS PRESENTS THE SEEDS: PUSHIN' TOO HARD, a film by director Neil Norman, will screen January 23rd in Southern California at the Frida Theater is Santa Ana. Harvey joins Iggy Pop, Seeds' founding members Daryl Hooper and Jan Savage, Kim Fowley, The Bangles, and Bruce Johnston on screen as some of the feature interview subjects in the movie Ugly Things listed as one of its favorite music-related film/documentary.

See the Harvey Kubernik interview with master guitarist Toulouse Engelhardt for his website on his new album "Mind Gardens," and spring 2016 tour.

Read Kubernik's MSMUSIC PRODUCTIONS REMEMBERS P.F. SLOAN tribute to the late singer/songwriter posted at musicconnection.com.

UPDATE: Mp3 format download of John Wells Caravan to Midnight Interview with Harvey Kubernik on the 50th Anniversary of the Beatles coming to America is now available to subscribers.

See Kubernik's Record Collector News cover story on The Beatles Rubber Soul Album here. It's also posted at Cave Hollywood and in the rock's backpages library. And the January/February issue of Record Collector News will feature Harvey Kubernik's cover story on "Bob Dylan The Cutting Edge 1965-1966 The Bootleg Series Vol. 12."

There's still time to hear the 1 hour, 56 minute BBC Radio 2 Johnnie Walker interview with Harvey Kubernik on BBC Radio 2, discussing Kubernik's recently published book "Neil Young: Heart of Gold," and Kubernik's memories of the period.

What critics are saying about Harvey Kubernik's new book, "Neil Young: Heart of Gold." "...a wonderful, gorgeous-to-look-at, and surprisingly detailed and accurate illustrated biography by longtime music scribe Kubernik," says Bob Ruggiero in the November 17 edition of the Houston Press. On Clare Calvert's Weekend Reads - Nightlife (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) she said, "From a peripatetic childhood and playing with local bands in his native Canada to building an extraordinary, erratic career against a changing music scene...this book documents Neil Young's journey to becoming a music legend. The book also features exclusive interviews with fellow musicians, making this book a must for all Neil Young aficionados. Stunning imagery." Or CLICK HERE to read the full review by Fred Mills.

Forgotten Hits: The Friday Flash
Friday, October 23, 2015 -- Harvey Kubernik sent me an advance pressing of his brand new Neil Young coffee-table book... bsolutely BEAUTIFUL as always, Harvey! I have to ask you the question that I get asked at least six or seven times a week...how on earth do you find the time to do this?!?! You could literally start your own Book Of The Month Club...except that EVERY book would be written by YOU!!! Nothing short of amazing! (With five or six books now waiting for my review, I am happy to add you to the list...hardest part for me is that if I'm writing, I'm not reading!!! But I promise to get to it as soon as I possibly can.)

Meanwhile, Harvey ALSO sent me this link surrounding a brand new radio special that sounds absolutely AWESOME...all being built around the 50th Anniversary of The Beatles' "Rubber Soul" album. (Can you believe it?!?! 50 Years since "Rubber Soul was first released?!?!? And just last year we were celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Beatles first coming to our shores singing the catchy but nowhere near as sophisticated tracks "I Want To Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You" and "Love Me Do"!!!
http://www.paulingles.com/RubberSoul/RubberSoulTrailer1.mp3

Record Collector News’ October-November cover story is Harvey Kubernik’s interview with L.A. filmmaker Colin Hanks’ about his documentary “All Things Must Pass,” the surprising story of the rise and fall of Tower Records. Online and on newsstands now!
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Harvey also has a news story and interview with BIlly Cox about the Jimi Hendrix Electric Church Atlanta Pop Festival, now released CD/DVD package currently posted at www.cavehollywood.com.

Preview the AUDIO trailer for the radio special, "Isn't it Good: The Beatles' Rubber Soul."

Writers, musicians and fans lead a tour through The Beatles' 1965 landmark LP on the 50th anniversary of its release (December 3, 1965). The two hour program will be available to public radio stations in time for Thanksgiving weekend and December, (also available in a one-hour version).

Heard in trailer: Harvey Kubernik, author, record producer; John Kruth, author, musician; Scott Freiman, Beatles Lecturer; BJ Leiderman, musician; Rob Martinez, musician; Shawn Colvin,musician; Ann Powers, NPR Music; Paul Zollo, writer, musician; Jon Spurney, musician; Jim Fusilli, writer, musician; Anthony DeCurtis, writer, Peter Mulvey, musician; Scott MacNicholl, public radio DJ; Sara Angharad (Schaefer Jones) Bishop, licensed music teacher.

Produced by Paul Ingles. His other Beatles programs at PBX: http://www.prx.org/playlists/94298

MORE RADIO: Orthopedia Surgeon Doctor Klapper welcomed music author Harvey Kubernik to talk about the history of music in los Angeles on ESPN LA: Weekend Warrior Show - PodCenter - ESPN Radio. Hear their conversation at http://search.espn.go.com/harvey-kubernik/audio/7

KUBERNIK DOES TV, TOO!

In February,2016. Harvey Kubernik is scheduled to be interviewed on camera for a one-off biography documentary on Queen's Freddie Mercury by ITV, the UK's largest commercial broadcaster who have been commissioned by Channel 5, alongside the U.S. cable channel, Reelz. The planned two-hour program will be directed by John Fothergill and will initially air last quarter of 2016.

In June 2015, Kubernik was filmed for the Brad Ross/Jonathan Rosenberg documentary on engineer Stan Ross, who formerly co-owned Gold Star recording studio with Dave Gold. Harvey appears as a feature interview subject with Herb Alpert, Brian Wilson, Bill Medley, Chan Romero, Kim Fowley, Marky Ramone, Artie Butler, Richard Sherman, Don Peake, Fanita James, Charles Wright, Neil Norman, Perry Botkin, Jr., Carol Kaye, The Paris Sisters, Chris Montez, Hal Blaine, Don Randi, Mark Guerrero, Richie Furay, P.J. Proby, Jimmie Haskell and Ric Marlow, the lyricist of “A Taste of Honey,” recorded by both the Beatles and Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass.

Harvey Kubernik also served as consultant and interview subject for an hour-long examination of the musical legacy of Los Angeles for the Australia television series “Great Music Cities" broadcast on Australian subscription television broadcaster XYZnetworks Pty Ltd. Slash, Brian Wilson, Steve Lukather and Keith Richards were also lensed for the project. Senior Producer is Wade Goring for Australian music television channel MAX.

Harvey Kubernik was taped as a feature interview subject, along with Damon Albarn of Blur, Chuck D. of Public Enemy, Regina Womack, Bill Withers, actor Antonio Fargas, and the Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood for a James Meycock-directed one hour film for BBC-TV on singer/songwriter Bobby Womack. The documentary recently aired in the UK.

Meat Loaf: In and Out of Hell, a documentary featuring an intimate profile of American Rock Legend Meat Loaf,spanning from his childhood of domestic violence, through a decade of rejection by record companies to global fame, bust-ups and a major comeback. Features friends, family and fellow musicians offering a candid, gritty aand humorous profile of the overweight bullied kid who became a music icon.

Upcoming Airings (All Times ET/PT): Fri, Sep 18, 8:00 PM. SHOWTIME. Sat, Sep 19, 3:30 AM. SHOWTIME. Sun, Sep 20, 7:40 AM.

Directed by Matt O’Casey, the one hour documentary features Meat Loaf, Todd Rundgren, Jim Steinman, Lou Adler, Tim Curry and Harvey Kubernik.
AND ACCORDING TO RELIABLE SOURCES... We’ve been saying that Harvey Kubernik is one of the music industries’ most widely quoted sources. In support of that claim we offer the following:

Harvey Kubernik, “representing” the city of Los Angeles, is a feature interview subject in Philipp Krohn’s book “Auf der Suche nach der Hauptstadt des Pop. Eine Reise von Berlin nach Memphis". ("Sound of the Cities: What is the world capital of pop? A trip from Berlin to Memphis). (In German), October 2015, Rogner & Bernhard.

Also profiled and quoted in the volume are Al Kooper, John Sebastian, Irma Thomas, Nick Gravenites, Allen Toussaint, Wayne Kramer, Stax Records’ Wayne Jackson, Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus, Urge Overkill, Doug Yule, Kurt Wagner of Lamb Chop, Brian Auger, Mike Heron, Dick Taylor of the Pretty Things, Robert Been of the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Billy Bragg, Peter Kruder, Steve Wynn, Lloyd Cole, and Peter Guralnick.

AND THAT’S NOT ALL! Harvey Kubernik’s Canyon of Dreams book quoted in author Andrew Grant Jackson’s 1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music,” published in 2015 by Macmillan.

Allen Ginsberg 1997 interview conducted by Harvey Kubernik for HITS Magazine utilized in Let Fury Have the Hour: Joe Strummer, Punk, and the Movement That Shook the Word -- Edited by Antonio D’Ambrosio. 2004.

Harvey Kubernik 1997 interview with Allen Ginsberg cited in Sounds of Poetry: Contemporary American Performance Poets by Martina Pfeiler, published by Gunter Narr Verlag. Copyright 2015. Harvey Kubernik 1999 interview with Willie Mitchell, excerpted in 2004 MOJO Magazine article, “Tell ‘Em Willie Boy Was Here,” incorporated in author Charles Farley’s book, Soul of the Man: Bobby “Blue” Bland, published in 2011 by the University of Mississippi Press.

A Kubernik and Willie Mitchell unedited interview earmarked for research and inclusion in author Jimmy McDonough’s 2016 book on Al Green and Hi Records that Da Capo will publish.

Kubernik has provided an archive interview with Harry E. Northup for Joel Selvin’s book on the Altamont music event of 1969 for his book to be published by Harper Collins this decade.

Harvey Kubernik archive interviews initially conducted with the three original members of the Bee Gees, culled from his 1978 interview with them for “Melody Maker” implemented in The Bee Gees: The Biography by David N. Meyer. First published in 2013 from Da Capo Press.

Kubernik’s “Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon” is cited in Alyn Shipton’s “Nilsson: The Life Of A Singer-Songwriter,” that was published in July 2013 from Oxford University Press.

Harvey Kubernik 1996 Hits Magazine interview with director Jim Jarmusch quoted and acknowledged in Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory 2015 book by Elise Walker. Published from Oxford University Press.

Harvey Kubernik’s interview with director D.A. Pennebaker from Kubernik’s 2004 book, Hollywood Shack Job: Rock Music In Film and On Your Screen, quoted in the book, Music, Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema, edited by James Wierzbicki. Published by Routledge in 2015.

Harvey Kubernik and D.A. Pennebaker interview quoted in Music of Counterculture Cinema: A Critical Study of…” Mathew J. Bartkowiak and Yuya Kiuchi. Published by McFarland in 2015.

Harvey Kubernik cited in credits to author Scott Saul’s Becoming Richard Pryor, published by Harper in 2014.

For fall 2016 publication, Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik, along with photographer Henry Diltz and Monkees' scholar/archivist, Gary Strobl, are assembling and editing a coffee table book on the Monkees for U.K. based Music Sales Ltd/Omnibus Press.

Harvey Kubernik review of Allen Ginsberg’s Holy Soul Jelly Roll box set recording from Huh Magazine cited in The Response to Allen Ginsberg, 1926-1994: A Bibliography of Secondary Sources by Bill Morgan. Published by Greenwood Publishing. 2015.

Excerpt of Kubernik and Allen Ginsberg 1997 interview included in Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim: Creating Counterculture Community by Timothy Gray. University of Iowa Press. 2015.

Harvey Kubernik article on Otis Redding published in Goldmine Magazine in 2007, listed in acknowledgements and credits in Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul by Mark Ribowsky, Published by W.W. Norton 2015.

During July 2015, Kubernik gave an extensive interview to author Jonathan Gould for his book, Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life that will be out on September 27, 2016 from Crown Publishing Group.

Kubernik is also cited in Luis A. Sanchez M.A, degree presentation in To Catch a Wave: The Beach Boys and Rock Histography for the University of Edinburgh. Kubernik is also referenced in Ernest Ligeti’s M.A. degree presentation for Cal State University Northridge in his paper Spatial Empowerment and the Los Angeles Counter Culture 1965-1967 The Search for Hallowed Ground In The City of the Angels.

Harvey Kubernik Bibliography acknowledgement in author Ken Hartman’s “The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll’s Best-Kept Secret,” published in 2013 by St, Martin’s.

Harvey Kubernik’s ’s 1988 interview conducted with Jack Nitzsche for Goldmine Magazine incorporated into Ken Sharp’s Sound Explosion!: L.A.’s Studio Factory with the Wrecking Crew published in June 2015 by Velocity Publishing.

An excerpt of Harvey Kubernik interview with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller in bibliography in “The Popular Music Teaching Handbook: An Educator's Guide to Music-Related Print Resources” by B. Lee Cooper, Rebecca A. Condon, published by Libraries Unlimited 2004.

Fans will want to know that the September issue of Record Collector News Magazine features a Kubernik cover story on Motown Records.


For the December 2015 issue of Record Collector News Magazine, Harvey is writing a cover story on the Beatles' "Rubber Soul" album that was initially released on December 3, 1965. Harvey's 50 year retrospective text on the album is a multi-voice narrative, implementing musicians, writers, poets, deejays, and authors of Beatles-related titles.


ABOVE: Independent Publisher Book Awards 2015 Harvey Kubernik, Kenneth Kubernik Bronze Medal in Photography for Guy Webster Big Shots book.
RIGHT: Independent Book Publishers Association Benjamin Franklin Gold Winner in the category of Art & Photography to Harvey Kubernik, Kenneth Kubernik for Guy Webster Big Shots book.

AND ANOTHER BEATLES LINK! During July 2015, Kubernik provided research and gave an extensive interview to author Jonathan Gould for his book, Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life that will be out on September 27, 2016 from Crown Publishing Group. Beatles fans may remember that Gould previously penned "Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America," according to the Baltimore Sun, "The best book ever written about the Beatles."

MORE BITS AND PIECES:
Kubernik's 1996 Hits Magazine interview with director Jim Jarmusch quoted and acknowledged in Understanding Soundtracks Through Film THeory, 2015 book by Elise Walker, Oxford University Press.

Kubernik's interview with director D. A Pennebaker from Kubernik's 2004 book, Hollywood Shack Job: Rock Music in Film and On Your Screen, quoted in the book, Music, Sound and FIlmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema, edited by James Weirzbicki, published by Rutledge in 2015.

Kubernik and D. A. Pennebaker interview quoted in "Music of Counterculture Cinema: A Critical Study of..." Mathew J. Bartkowiak and Yuya Kiuchi, published by McFarland in 2015.

UPDATE FOR BEATLES FANS AND MUSIC HISTORY BUFFS: In October, 2015, National Public Radio will broadcast syndicated producer and program host Paul Ingles interview with Harvey Kubernik on the 50th Anniversary of the Beatles "Rubber Soul" album.

That's still a way off, so while you're waiting, you might want to CLICK HERE to check out the Glass Onion Beatles Journal review of Kubernik's Book It Was 50 Years Ago Today THE BEATLES Invade America and Hollywood.

Way back in January, 2014, Kubernik was interviewed on the Jim Bohannon Show heard on more than 500 stations across the nation, just before we published his "It Was 50 Years Ago Today THE BEATLES Invade America and Hollywood, and in March, 2014, John B. Wells did a three hour interview with Kubernik about the book and the BEATLES on his "Caravan to Midnight" podcast. CLICK HERE to listen to an excerpt from that show or go to the Caravan to Midnight website to listen to the entire three hour interview.

UPDATE FOR ROLLING STONES FANS AND MUSIC HISTORY BUFFS: How about this photo of Kieth Richards enjoying Harvey Kubernik's cover story for the May/June issue of Record Collector News magazine on the Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers album re-release on Universal Music Enterprises-- or this photo of Harvey Kubernik with Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts. And while we're still on The Rolling Stones, check out Kubernik's 18,000 word prose and multi-voice profile of Rolling Stones founder, Brian Jones, cover story in the May Issues of Ugy Things magazine. And be sure to take a look at the UGLY THINGS REVIEW of BIG SHOTS: ROCK LEGENDS AND HOLLYWOOD ICONS!

UPDATE: GNP CRESCENDO RECORDS PRESENTS THE SEEDS: PUSHIN' TOO HARD, a film by director Neil Norman, will screen November 7th in Southern California at the Frida Theater is Santa Ana. Harvey joins Iggy Pop, Seeds' founding members Daryl Hooper and Jan Savage, Kim Fowley, The Bangles, and Bruce Johnston on screen as some of the feature interview subjects in the movie Ugly Things listed as one of its favorite music-related film/documentary.

KUBERNIK IN ANOTHER MUSIC RELATED DOCUMENTARY FILM. In June 2015, Kubernik was filmed for the Brad Ross/Jonathan Rosenberg documentary on engineer Stan Ross, who formerly co-owned Gold Star recording studio with Dave Gold. Harvey will appear as a feature interview subject with Herb Alpert, Brian Wilson, Bill Medley, Chan Romero, Kim Fowley, Marky Ramone, Artie Butler, Richard Sherman, Don Peake, Fanita James, Charles Wright, Neil Norman, Perry Botkin, Jr., Carol Kaye, The Paris Sisters, Chris Montez, Hal Blaine, Don Randi, Mark Guerrero, Richie Furay, P.J. Proby and Jimmie Haskell.

CLICK HERE to read the Backbeat Books press release about Kubernik's exploration of Neil Young's career in Heart of Gold, due for publication in November, 2015.

CLICK HERE to check out Kubernik's articles on Miles Davis, Guy Webster and Bill Graham in the most recent editions of Record Collector News. Kubernik is scheduled to write a cover story on Motown Records for their August/September issue.

Be sure to see Kubernik's article posted at CaveHollywood.com on the Ravi Shankar exhibit at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, now running through Spring 2016.

CONGRATULATIONS Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik! On April 11th, 2015, the Independent Book Publisher's Association announced the winner of its Benjamin Franklin Gold Medal Award for Art & Photography is the Guy Webster "Big Shots: Rock Legends and Hollywood Icons" book, written by Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik. (And in May 2015, the book garnered the Independent Publisher Award Bronze Medal in the category of Photography!)



On 25 March 2015, 200 National Public Radio Stations re-broadcast a World Cafe interview with music historian and author of Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon Harvey Kubernik, exploring the history of that bohemian area of Hollywood known as the musically fertile area that has provided escape for Angelenos since the 1920's.


The University Press of Mississippi published a Kubernik interview with Oscar-winning director and photographer D.A. Pennebaker in their book series, "Conversations with Filmmakers," edited by Dr. Keith Beattie.

Kubernik's review of the Doors' album Waiting for the Sun will be in the book, "The Doors: The Illustrated History," slated for a summer, 2015 publication by Voyageur Press.

Harvey also penned the liner notes to poet/songwriter Stephen J. Kalinich's "California Feeling 2" album coming soon from MsMusic Productions.

Kubernik is also cited in Luis A. Sanchez M.A, degree presentation in To Catch a Wave: The Beach Boys and Rock Histography for the University of Edinburgh. Kubernik is also referenced in Ernest Ligeti’s M.A. degree presentation for Cal State University Northridge in his paper Spatial Empowerment and the Los Angeles Counter Culture 1965-1967 The Search for Hallowed Ground In The City of the Angels.

Palazzo Editions Ltd, has arranged for Kubernik's music and recording study illustrated history book on Neil Young, "Heart of Gold" to be published in November by Hal Leonard (US), Omnibus Press (UK), Monte Publishing (Canada) and Hardie Grant (Australia).

And in case you missed these "Turn Up the Radio! Rock, Pop & Roll in LA 1956-1972 reviews," CLICK HERE for the February review from THE BEAT, and CLICK HERE for the METAL HAMMER piece.



MORE FOR MUSIC HISTORY BUFFS: 18 January 2015: The Best of 2014 -- Ugly Things Magazine writers cite Turn Up The Radio! Rock,Pop, and Roll in Los Angeles 1956-1972 by Harvey Kubernik (Santa Monica Press), among their favorite music-related books of 2014, reporting "Having been an LA-based music journalist for more than forty years, Kubernik has amassed a prolific portfolio of interviews, including some of the biggest names in the record industry. The author taps into the memories of these first-hand sources to weave a fascinating oral history of the city's music scene between 1956 and 1972, interwoven with some authoritative connecting narrative. Turn Up the Radio! is also generously illustrated with hundreds of photos and clippings, many of them rare or previously unpublished."



6 January 2015: Harvey Kubernik is featured in the broadcast of a new BBC TV documentary, Meat Loaf: In and Out of Hell. The film features an intimate profile of American Rock Legend Meat Loaf, spanning from his childhood of domestic violence, through a decade of rejection by record companies to global fame, bust-ups and a major comeback. Features friends, family and fellow musicians offering a candid, gritty aand humorous profile of the overweight bullied kid who became a music icon. Directed by Matt O’Casey, the one hour documentary features Meat Loaf, Todd Rundgren, Jim Steinman, Lou Adler, Tim Curry and Harvey Kubernik.

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27 August 2014: Otherworld Cottage released two "50th Anniversary" items in its first year of publishing -- Harvey Kubernik has three books published so far this year -- It Was 50 Years Ago Today THE BEATLES Invade America and Hollywood, Turn Up the Radio!, and Leonard Cohen Everybody Knows (Backbeat Books/Hal Leonard).



8 March 2014: Caravan to Midnight host John B. Wells opened his BEATLES WEEK program with special guest author Harvey Kubernik.


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