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Apr 15, 2022 · Jimmy Webb: 'I came pretty close to the edge of the abyss on a number of occasions' The songwriting legend escaped the church, then found early success that led to a life of excess. His songs put him in the company of Sinatra and Streisand, but he really wanted to get stoned with Mick Jagger
- Jane Graham
May 26, 2024 · But Webb’s secret transistor radio was crackling out hits from the likes of the Shirelles and Little Anthony and the Imperials and he started copying those hits on the piano his father made him keep in the garage. “People don’t realise how much of a teacher the radio can be,” reckons Webb.
Sep 6, 2019 · Doug Flett, a songwriter friend of mine, was visiting a Los Angeles recording studio in the summer of 1968 when a young, Nehru-jacketed Jimmy Webb pushed his head around the door. Would Doug like to hear a demo of “Wichita Lineman,” this new song he’d written?
We spoke to legendary songwriter Jimmy Webb about, well, songwriting: the unpredictability of writing a hit song and how the art has changed.
Apr 29, 1982 · Webb’s tumultuous years as pop music’s golden boy are remembered in colorful detail in handwritten memoirs he has compiled under the title “Future Letters to My Children.”
- Stephen Holden
Jul 10, 2012 · Jimmy Webb’s glass is always half full, as it should be for someone whose unparalleled catalogue continues to mean so much to so many. But there’s no denying that he talks with a certain nostalgia about the pop heyday that his incredible songs helped to create.
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Although he has released more than a dozen albums under his own name since 1968, Webb has always been more of a nuts-and-bolts, behind-the-scenes kind of guy. But even if you don’t recognize his face, you know his songs. If you’ve turned on a radio in the past 50+ years, his compositions have likely reached your ears many thousands of times.
