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30 Years Ago In the Studio: Pat Benatar- Crimes of Passion

The first time I interviewed Pat Benatar  for her breakthrough second album Crimes of Passion  for January 9, 1989's episode  #29 of In the Studio, she was very wary of me and visibly uncomfortable. It didn't take long to understand why:…

Police-Zenyatta Mondatta-Sting,Andy Summers,Stewart Copeland

On their first U.S.tour in early 1979 the three members of The Police, Stewart Copeland, Andy Summers, & Sting arrived for their first interview at my Memphis radio studio... in a station wagon. Barely 15 months later they returned to take…

Pink Floyd-The Wall pt1-Roger Waters,David Gilmour,Nick Mason

Roger Waters admitted to me that in 1980 Pink Floyd had been guaranteed one million dollars per night to perform The Wall on a stadium tour. "And I refused to do it outdoors," Waters tells me in this classic rock interview. "But how can you do a show, that's about the alienation you feel about doing stadium shows, in a stadium?"