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The Police- Reggatta de Blanc- Sting, Stewart Copeland, Andy Summers

"Outlandos d'Amour'  has a certain grotesque, naïve charm about it," Sting offers in this interview about the second album by The Police, "but 'Reggatta de Blanc'  is infinitely a better record." Both the critics and the rock audience agreed, garnering two #1 hits in the UK with "Walking on the Moon" and "Message in a Bottle", plus topping the album sales chart there with "Reggatta de Blanc".

Foreigner- Feels Like the First Time- London 5-78

Like contemporaries Bad Company, Foreigner are on a very short list of arena fillers who never released the obligatory live album with the original members in their prime. Thankfully that omission has been remedied for both with impressive results,…
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Foreigner- Best Of- Mick Jones, Lou Gramm

Foreingner’s founder Mick Jones and original singer/co-writer Lou Gramm get their green cards for permanent citizenship in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Paul McCartney & Wings- Soily- 1974

After listening to his songs with the Beatles for sixty-plus years, and playing his solo albums and Wings stuff on the radio/online for more than fifty, I felt that I was fairly literate in the compositions of Paul McCartney. So imagine my surprise…

Toy Matinee- Last Plane Out- Dallas 1990

This one haunts me. Believe me, I am far from being alone in the admiration and appreciation of the obvious musical talent of singer/songwriter Kevin Gilbert, first demonstrated in Summer 1990 with the collaboration with pop producer Patrick…
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R.E.M.- Monster- Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills

REM interview with Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills for “Monster”

R.E.M.- What’s the Frequency Kenneth- Milton Keynes UK 7-95

"We were touring for the first time in five years. We wanted something arena and festival ready", says R.E.M. lead singer and lyricist Michael Stipe in Newsweek about the overall sound of the Fall 1994 release Monster.   The proof of the pudding…

Mark Knopfler- Get Lucky

Mark Knopfler is my guest here In the Studio  for his Top 10 UK/ Top 20 US seller "Get Lucky".
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Cheap Trick- Dream Police- Rick Nielsen, Robin Zander

we find out from my guests Cheap Trick lead singer Robin Zander and guitarist/songwriter Rick Nielsen that the band had actually interrupted recording their fourth studio album, "Dream Police", in order to do that first Japanese tour in 1978. Several hits would eventually come from "Dream Police", including "Voices","It's the Way of the World", and the title song, but those would have to wait while Cheap Trick scuttled all plans while they learned to surf the tsunami of success from the unexpected live album.

Jackson Browne- Late for the Sky 50th Anniversary

Late for the Sky by Jackson Browne was released September 13, 1974. Do you realize from what kind of place a songwriter has to come to show his or her inner soul, the Big Ta Dah, with the opening song on side one? That is precisely the confidence,…