Pretenders 45th Anniversary- Chrissie Hynde 1-13-25

To be completely honest, the almost instant appeal of The Pretenders debut, practically  from the outset in January 1980, caught me and not just a few of my American radio brethren off guard. Rock'n'roll in general, and rock radio in particular,…
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Grand Funk @55- Closer to Home- Mark Farner, Don Brewer

Grand Funk "Closer to Home" interview with Mark Farner and Don Brewer In the Studio.

Fleetwood Mac- Hypnotized- Sausalito 12-15-74

Shortly before he would depart Fleetwood Mac, the late Bob Welch singing the sublime "Hypnotized" with the band performing live in 1974 from The Record Plant in Sausalito CA.

Rush- Permanent Waves 45th Anniversary- Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson 1-6-25

We may not have realized it as The Eighties dawned in January 1980, but the Permanent Waves that were emanating from Rush's latest then were indeed indelible. For the first time, the majority of America's rock radio stations relented in their…
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Kansas @50: Wayward Songs & Dust Busters- Kerry Livgren, Steve Walsh, Phil Ehart, Rich Williams, Robbie Steinhardt

Over a half century of being America's leading Progressive Rock band, the Topeka-based progressive rock band Kansas sold about twelve million albums just off of back-to-back blockbusters  Left Overture  in 1976 and Point of Know Return  barely…

David Bowie- Life on Mars?- NYC 11-19-99

The electricity in the room was palpable that crisp November night 1999 in Manhattan when David Bowie took the stage of the Kit Kat Klub and opened his show ( historic in that it was among the first ever live-streamed on the internet by a major Artist ) with this stunning rendition of "Life on Mars?".

Guess Who- American Woman 55th Anniversary- Burton Cummings, Randy Bachman 12-30

Guess Who songwriters Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman were a prolific pair from the very outset with hits "Laughing, "Undone", "These Eyes", and "No Time", but none of them were bigger or more timely than "American Woman" in December 1969. With…

Paul McCartney- Here Today (for John Lennon)

Every year when December 8 rolls around it is a challenge as to how to observe the violent, senseless gun murder of John Lennon that day in 1980, to chronicle the worldwide psychic blow to a generation, while paying tribute to what John Lennon…

Paul McCartney- Drive My Car- Amoeba Records 2007

In early December 1965 The Beatles released the album Rubber Soul, highly significant because of a new approach to the LP ("long player") as not just a collection of Top Forty singles. Rubber Soul contained "Norwegian Wood", "In My Life", George…
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Eddie Money- Sound of Money 35th Anniversary

Just before Christmas 1989 Eddie Money joined me In the Studio to discuss his roller-coaster career and first "best of" compilation, The Sound of Money. Alternately hysterically funny and harrowing, in my classic rock interview Eddie Money shares…