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“I think that Talking Heads were one of the first groups who tried not to be about a fantasy that was bigger than life, but tried to be about being strong within a life that was ultimately real.”- Jerry Harrison, In the Studio with Mr “American Utopia”, David Byrne, for Talking Heads “Speaking in Tongues”.
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For Memorial Day Weekend 2023: Echoes In the Studio, the voices of & tributes to fallen rockers.
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Presented to celebrate her legendary life and now death at age 83, this is the definitive version of “Tearing Us Apart” by Tina Turner with Eric Clapton, seemingly in a dead heat race with her band to see who could finish first!
Ray Davies of The Kinks In the Studio for their late Seventies rock revitalization which started with “Sleepwalker” and continued into May 1978’s “Misfits”.
Joe Walsh busts out of Cleveland-based The James Gang and heads west, making rock history along the Rocky Mountain way. Joe Walsh and I are Buckeyes in exile here In the Studio.on the dual anniversaries of “The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get” and “But Seriously Folks”.
On the 45th anniversary of “Some Girls”, Keith Richards is joined in this classic rock interview by Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, and former Faces keyboard player the late Ian McLagan who played on this Rolling Stones #1 Billboard album and single (“Miss You”).
R.E.M. “Murmur” quietly emerged April 12, 1983 and has never left my essential music list, along with its follow-up “Reckoning” forty years ago. Michael Stipe & Peter Buck are here In the Studio for “Reckoning” 40th anniversary. Songs include “Radio Free Europe”,”South Central Rain”,”Can’t Get There from Here”,”Driver 8″, and an ultra-rare live acoustic performance of “Maps and Legends” from McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica.
“Let’s Dance” was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1983, and if David could have moonwalked like Michael Jackson, Bowie probably would have won. it was no surprise that multi-media maven David Bowie, who seemed tailor-made then for the dawn of the MTV era in America when “Let’s Dance” was released, would later be among the first to embrace computer-generated gaming and virtual reality, which David discussed at length here, reprised on the album’s fortieth anniversary.
“Bookends” by Simon and Garfunkel went to #1 sales in both America and the UK, and since then Rolling Stone magazine has ranked “Bookends” as the #21 album of the entire Sixties, as well as #234 on their Top 500 Albums of All Time. Art Garfunkel is my guest In the Studio for this ultra-rare classic rock interview.
We celebrate “Queen Forever” and Freddie Mercury’s memory with Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor.