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The Beatles “White Album” 55th Anniversary: How can an album accomplish so much by embedding itself indelibly in popular culture, continuing to influence generations a half century after release, while on the surface revealing so little about its contents and its creators?
Paul McCartney retraces the Beatles #1s with Redbeard from Liverpool to the top of the charts, writing music history with every #1 song. Also you’ll hear Redbeard’s rare interviews with the late George Harrison.
Paul McCartney joins me In the Studio here in part two of the Beatles’ “White Album” 55th anniversary to explore the songs “Birthday”, Lennon’s “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey”, Paul’s “Mother Nature’s Son”, one of three versions of “Revolution”, the campy pally band arrangement on “Honey Pie”, Lennon’s “Cry Baby Cry”, and the real inspiration behind the song which figured into the notorious Charles Manson multiple murder case,”Helter Skelter”.
The Beatles #1+ sellers including “Lady Madonna”,”Hey Jude”,”Get Back”,”Something”,”Come Together”,”Let It Be”, and “The Long and Winding Road”. Paul McCartney hosts part two, and additional comments from my interviews with the late George Harrison are here, too
Grand Funk “Closer to Home” interview with Mark Farner and Don Brewer In the Studio.
The Sting and I…We had already done multiple interviews when he was in The Police and now Sting had released three solo albums, including his solo debut,”The Dream of the Blue Turtles”, by the time we reconvened in 1991. Sting had lost both parents by then, the most recent his father, and was clearly wrestling with his star ascending amidst pain and personal loss.
Simple Minds went to US #1 from performing the hit “Don’t You Forget About Me” in the soundtrack rolling under the end credits of the John Hughes Brat Pack movie “The Breakfast Club” in May 1985. But that’s just the beginning of the story of Simple Minds’ breakthrough album “Once Upon a Time”. We have lead singer/ lyricist Jim Kerr here In the Studio.
C.C. interview April 26, 2007 in Dallas by Redbeard for In the Studio. Copyright 2007, all rights reserved. FOR DEMONSTRATION ONLY. Subject log & times: No guarantees; grateful for the opportunity 00-1:58 Paid dues, washed dishes; still willing to do the work 2:11-8:18 Started songwriting very young 8:19-10:03 Second solo album Carry On, 10:12-14:20 Producers, […]
The Poet Laureate of Rock, Ray Davies of The Kinks, joins me In the Studio to answer many more questions here the week of May 25, framed by lively versions of “All Day and All of the Night”, “Lola”, “Celluloid Heroes”, “You Really Got Me”, “Victoria”, “Picture Book”, and others.
The September 1981 release of Genesis “Abacab”. The veteran English band’s eleventh studio album, nevertheless it was the first Genesis album to breach the American Top Ten album sales on Billboard , and surprisingly the first Genesis million seller. Yet it is no minor miracle that my guests Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins, and Tony Banks could make it to the Progressive Rock promised land.