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In February 1973 when Alice Cooper’s sixth album “Billion Dollar Babies” went #1 sales, we all thought that Marshall McLuhan, Andy Warhol, and Alice Cooper were being hyperbolic with their predictions about video fame’s impact on society. We laughed then, but as it turns out, the joke’s on us…Alice Cooper is my fascinating guest on the 50th anniversary of “ Billion Dollar Babies”.
“In the Studio” : David, Stephen, Graham, and Neil of Crosby, Stills, Nash , and Young with Redbeard for “Deja Vu” .
Bryan Adams interview to explore his breakthrough album “Cuts Like a Knife” from January 1983
Mainstream rock fans would vote Steppenwolf into the Rock Hall easily if only for pretty much single-handedly putting hard rock and its term “heavy metal thunder” onto American Top 40 radio with “Born to Be Wild”. Lead singer John Kay is my guest In the Studio.
Warren Zevon, the gambler’s son who wrote and sang “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead”, presumably is indeed resting in peace, having ;passed away far too soon in 2003…Here is my rare interview with Warren Zevon on the 45th anniversary of “Excitable Boy”.
Ray Davies of the seminal London band The Kinks, with the conclusion of my interview in conjunction with their live & unplugged “best of” collection, “To the Bone”.
Justin Hayward & John Lodge are In the Studio on the fiftieth anniversary of their international #1-seller, “Seventh Sojourn”.
Free “Heartbreaker” final album 50th anniversary In the Studio with Paul Rodgers.
It happened to Elton John, Rod Stewart, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams, Sting, and most recently U2: US radio and music video outlets overplaying the hits by these most popular musicians, in the programmers’ misguided attempts at gaining a bigger audience. But the unfortunate by-product is that these listeners/viewers burn out on the saturation repetition to the peril of the musicians, and the predictable backlash unfortunately is misdirected at the musicians, who had no control over how their songs were appropriated. No one on the planet knows this better now than my guest Phil Collins on the 40th anniversary of his second solo album,”Hello I Must Be Going.”.
Lou Reed focuses on his second post-Velvet Underground album,”Transformer” containing the Top 20 alterna-hit “Walk on the Wild Side”. Rolling Stone magazine writers rank “Transformer” at #109 now on their Top 500 All Time list.