Rickie Lee Jones

‘My teenage hormones were raging!’: stars salute the Beatles’ Love Me Do at 60

It confused Gene Simmons, inspired Judy Collins and changed one pop star’s mum’s haircut. Here, musicians recall the impact of the Beatles’ debut single

Interviews by Dave Simpson

03, Oct, 2022 @10:59 AM

Rickie Lee Jones: ‘I had lived volumes long before I was famous’

A fractured childhood, years as a hippy drifter… the musician’s new memoir tells of her incredible adventures before she found fame

Sean O’Hagan

18, Apr, 2021 @9:00 AM

Walking on sunshine: The Ladies of Too Slow to Disco compilation

From singer-songwriter ballads to lavish soul, The Ladies of Too Slow to Disco compilation captures the creativity and optimism of female musicians in 70s California. Here some of them talk about those heady days

Joe Muggs

05, May, 2016 @5:32 PM

David Bowie tribute concert to be streamed live

Show featuring Pixies, Blondie, Michael Stipe, J Mascis, the Flaming Lips and more will be streamed live for fans in return for a charity donation

Guardian music

29, Mar, 2016 @8:02 AM

Rickie Lee Jones – New Orleans flavours in a maverick's freewheeling set

No encores, and no Chuck E’s in Love, but Rickie Lee Jones delivers her straight-shooting jazz, rock and blues songs with husky integrity

Malcolm Jack

19, Jan, 2016 @12:24 PM

Readers recommend: songs that stick it to the man - results

Cheney to Bush, Johnson to Blair, workplace bosses to jailers? They all get what’s coming to them with a punchy selection by RR regular swawilg from last week’s topic

Swawilg

10, Dec, 2015 @12:00 PM

Rickie Lee Jones review – woozy wanderings through New Orleans

The singer-songwriter spices her set with the musical heritage of her new hometown – and a waspish Chuck E’s in Love

Caroline Sullivan

19, Oct, 2015 @12:03 PM

Old music: Rickie Lee Jones – The Last Chance Texaco

Michael Hann: A song that portrays the heart as a truck in need of service and repair – why didn't Bruce Springsteen think of this?

Greg Freeman

12, Mar, 2012 @11:20 AM

Manchester international festival: Sinéad O'Connor, Rickie Lee Jones and more Björk

Alex Needham: Kitty Empire has her say on Biophilia, while Dr Dee continues to be a talking point and Sinéad O'Connor thrills the festival pavillion

Alex Needham

03, Jul, 2011 @8:53 AM

Rickie Lee Jones, Lucinda Williams and others: The Village – A Celebration of the Music of Greenwich Village | CD review

Robin Denselow hopes Greenwich Village in the 1960s was a bit more exciting than this CD suggests

Robin Denselow

04, Feb, 2010 @11:50 PM

CD review | Rickie Lee Jones: Balm in Gilead

It's roughly an album of two halves, the first warm and folky, the second soft and shimmering, says Caroline Sullivan