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These are the interviews from the most recent editions of the weekly national radio broadcast of In The Studio .

Supertramp-Breakfast in America 35th Anniversary-Roger Hodgson

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On the eve of Supertramp‘s international blockbuster Breakfast in America 35 years ago, none of us outside the Brit ex-pat band’s tight inner circle living in suburban Los Angeles had any reason to see it coming. Sure, their U.S. label patiently had given them the time to cook up something popular over the...
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Pink Floyd-The Division Bell 20th Anniversary-David Gilmour,Nick Mason

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 Listening to this interview, one of the last ever with the late gentle and fragile original Pink Floyd keyboard player Richard Wright, you would have no indication of the circumstances under which we had this conversation. In mid-March 1994 I had been driven to a decommissioned Air Force base in the California desert at...
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Police-Outlandos d’Amour 35th Anniversary-Sting, Andy Summers, Stewart Copeland

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“Outlandos d’Amour has a certain grotesque, naive charm about it,” Sting confesses in this week’s 35th anniversary rockumentary about the Police debut,”but Regatta de Blanc was infinitely a much better record.” He was absolutely correct, of course, but it was due simply to his, Police drummer Stewart Copeland‘s, and guitarist Andy Summers‘ lack...
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Scorpions-Love at First Sting 30th Anniversary-Klaus Meine,Rudolph Schenker

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With the current Winter Olympics focusing the world’s attention on the post-Communist Era Russia, it is fascinating to be reminded by members of Germany’s  Scorpions just how much rock music  has changed the world. And they should know better than anyone: they were there, living it every day twenty-five years ago. “We were...
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Beatles #1 Songs pt one-Paul McCartney, George Harrison

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Paul McCartney retraces the band with Redbeard from Liverpool to the stage of the Ed Sullivan Show fifty years ago this weekend. Part one of two includes exclusive comments from the late George Harrison‘s two In the Studio interviews, as well.  ...
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Beatles #1 Songs pt two-Paul McCartney, George Harrison

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Part two of the Beatles #1 sellers as America honors the second British Invasion featuring guitars and drums instead of muskets and red coats. Paul McCartney hosts part two, and additional comments from the late George Harrison are here, too.  ...
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Cheap Trick-At Budokan 35th Anniversary-Rick Nielsen, Robin Zander

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On a maximum scale of five stars, the 1977 debut by Cheap Trick  receives AllMusic.com‘s highest rating, and the even more melodic, better sounding  sophomore effort In Color in the same year earns 4 1/2 stars. Then little more than six months later, Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen, Robin Zander, Tom Petersson, and Bun...
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Pink Floyd’s Richard Wright 3-94

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This is the full Rick Wright interview that we did in March 1994 while Pink Floyd were rehearsing in a B-52 hangar on a military base in the Southern California desert just days prior to the start of The Division Bell  tour. The Pink prodigal son had contributed minimally at the end of...
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Creedence Clearwater Revival-Bayou Country 45th anniversary- John Fogerty

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Very rare interview with John Fogerty, who wrote and sang every CCR song, played lead guitar & great chunky rhythm guitar, and produced every Creedence album. When my parents could finally afford a little monaural record player, Bayou Country  with its “Proud Mary” and“Born on the Bayou” was among the first albums I...
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