
Neil Young- Helpless- Live Aid Philadelphia 7-13-85
Proving to the whole world that day to be anything other than "Helpless", Neil Young and a cast of a hundred thousand in Philadelphia's JFK Stadium joined a similar group in London's Wembley Stadium via satellite, and an estimated 1.4 billion viewing and listening worldwide, to raise money and awareness for starving residents of Ethiopia, Sudan, and sub-Saharan Africa on July 13, 1985 for Live Aid 35th anniversary.

Phil Collins “Against All Odds/In the Air Tonight”- Live Aid Philadelphia 7-13-85
with 100,000 people for Live Aid US, I stood back of center stage about ten feet behind Phil Collins who was seated at a black grand piano. Beside me looking over his 3"x 5" recipe cards with notes for stage announcements stood Jack Nicholson. Collins, fresh off the Concorde supersonic jet which had conveyed him from his earlier performance at the London Live Aid concert, sang his surprise movie hit "Against All Odds" and then "the other song I know on piano"...In the Air Tonight.

Queen- Spread Your Wings- London 10-28-77
Queen always was one of those top-tier bands who could really sing and play their highly arranged material live, and here is ample proof of that fact in a rare live-in-studio performance of "Spread Your Wings" from Autumn 1977, broadcast on BBC Radio from London's Maida Vale Studio.

Live- Selling the Drama- New York City 3/97
When the string of passionate, dynamic songs on the 1994 Throwing Copper album by Pennsylvania band Live opened up like the petals on a rose bud, I was really impressed. Not since the R.E.M. days of Murmur and Reckoning a decade earlier …

R.E.M.- Maps and Legends- Santa Monica 1987
R.E.M. live acoustic "Maps and Legends" at McCabe's Guitar Shop, Santa Monica May 1987

Kinks- Picture Book- London 1996
"The Kinks are a really good live band. We're not so keen on recording studios," Ray Davies told me. Maybe that's why the Kinks have owned their own studio in London for so long, in order to minimize many of the irritants from recording in…

Robert Plant- Rockin’ at Midnight- Birmingham UK 9-85
When Robert Plant performed this toe-tappin', finger snappin' "Rockin' at Midnight" in concert in Birmingham England in September 1985, he had already successfully lifted the curtain on Act Two of his lengthy post-Led Zeppelin career.

Judas Priest- Living After Midnight- Atlanta 12-11-82
Program Director Alan Sneed was midway through a distinguished career helming legendary rock radio stations in Nashville, Atlanta, and Houston when Judas Priest rolled into the Omni in early December 1982 to film and record. Those facts are…

Mark Knopfler- Money for Nothing- Dallas Ft Worth 9-8-19
Mark Knopfler the quiet-spoken Englishman from his performance in September 2019 in Grand Prairie TX taking his big band through their paces on the showstopper "Money for Nothing".

U2- Until the End of the World- NYC Yankee Stadium 1992
U2's "Until the End of the World", it is imperative that the listener understand that the singers' (plural) perspectives change every time the stanzas do. The singer in the first stanza is Jesus Christ; the singer in the second stanza is Judas; and in the final stanza, it's you and me.