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AC/DC- Back in Black @45- Angus Young, Brian Johnson 7-14
Angus Young and Brian Johnson host AC/DC's forty-fifth anniversary of the top of the rock, "Back in Black" here In the Studio the week of July 14.

Pink Floyd- The Wall 45th- 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?"

Fleetwood Mac- Tusk- Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham
Imagine an entire season of the tv "reality series" show Survivor if it had been filmed in a locked down recording studio instead of a remote island, and with guitars instead of spears, and you have the story of Fleetwood Mac's 1979 double opus "Tusk".

Pat Benatar- In the Heat of the Night- Pat & Neil Giraldo
Pat Benatar In the Studio for her multi-million seller second album in 1980, “Crimes of Passion”.

Police- Zenyatta Mondatta- Sting, Andy Summers, Stewart Copeland
It seems that stardom for The Police had occurred in the UK after the release of their second album, "Reggatta de Blanc" , but mainstream popularity in the U.S. still eluded them until October 1980's "Zenyatta Mondatta". My guests In the Studio are Police-men Sting, Stewart Copeland, and Andy Summers.