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Cars- Shake It Up 40th anniversary- Greg Hawkes, the late Ric Ocasek

The Cars’ “Shake It Up” was their first album to contain a Top Ten Billboard  hit in the title song, so 1981’s “Shake It Up”, with its peak at #9 on Billboard  album sales chart as well as #34 for the entire year, was seen by many  as a return to high performance by the Boston band. Keyboard player Greg Hawkes joins me In the Studio with archival interview by Cars bandleader the late Ric Ocasek on “Shake It Up” fortieth anniversary.

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Billy Idol- Don’t Stop

It’s the all-important 1981 “Don’t Stop”  EP by Billy Idol. In the last spasms of the London Punk Rock scene circa 1980, Generation X and their front man Billy Broad had the career arc of a bottle rocket, briefly filling English dance floors with the celebratory single “Dancing with Myself”and a cover of “Mony Mony”. But Punk Rock’s purpose of being a disruptive force to reset all the tumblers of popular music was practically fulfilled by then, and had no second act, so Billy Idol needed a new start. Billy Idol is my guest In the Studio.

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David Bowie- Station to Station 45th Anniversary

“The way you change Music is by changing the music,” David Bowie told me, without any hint of irony whatsoever, as we discussed  1976’s Station to Station. Songs include “Golden Years”,”Stay” ,”TVC 1-5″ ( Bowie said that the unused tune for the Man…Earth soundtrack was about a girl and her relationship with her television),”Wild is the Wind” , and the title song, often cited by post-punk bands including The Cars, Talking Heads, and Gary Numan as a major influence.

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Ozzy Osbourne- Ozzmosis

Ozzy Osbourne’s biggest seller in about fifteen years, 1995’s “Ozzmosis” ironically was released after he had announced a very high profile retirement. “Me without a band is like I’m walking around naked or something. ” Ozzy is a funny, charming, surprisingly insightful guest with me In the Studio.
So hear about the emperor’s new clothes with Ozzy Osbourne on “Ozzmosis”.  

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Queen- Bohemian Rhapsody OST- Brian May, Roger Taylor

You know after a best-selling book is made into a popular film how you’ll hear from early adopters, “Yeah it’s good, but there was a lot in the book that wasn’t in the movie”? Same can be said for the four Oscar-winning Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody  as compared to their almost fifty year reign as […]

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Boston- Don’t Look Back- Tom Scholz

The band Boston had by August 1978 sold seven million copies on its way to becoming the top-selling debut ever (now over 17 million ), and the follow-up “Don’t Look Back”  was being rush released to North American rock  radio stations. Boston, led by my guest here in this classic rock interview, guitarist/composer Tom Scholz

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Redbeard’s Most Significant Interviews A-Z

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