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The Beatles “White Album” 55th Anniversary: How can an album accomplish so much by embedding itself indelibly in popular culture, continuing to influence generations a half century after release, while on the surface revealing so little about its contents and its creators?
Paul McCartney retraces the Beatles #1s with Redbeard from Liverpool to the top of the charts, writing music history with every #1 song. Also you’ll hear Redbeard’s rare interviews with the late George Harrison.
Paul McCartney joins me In the Studio here in part two of the Beatles’ “White Album” 55th anniversary to explore the songs “Birthday”, Lennon’s “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey”, Paul’s “Mother Nature’s Son”, one of three versions of “Revolution”, the campy pally band arrangement on “Honey Pie”, Lennon’s “Cry Baby Cry”, and the real inspiration behind the song which figured into the notorious Charles Manson multiple murder case,”Helter Skelter”.
The Beatles #1+ sellers including “Lady Madonna”,”Hey Jude”,”Get Back”,”Something”,”Come Together”,”Let It Be”, and “The Long and Winding Road”. Paul McCartney hosts part two, and additional comments from my interviews with the late George Harrison are here, too
How then do we explain Creedence Clearwater Revival and their five hit albums in three years, leaving the best for July 1970’s “Cosmo’s Factory”, all written, arranged, produced, and sung solely by John Fogerty fifty-five years ago? Enjoy my very rare classic rock interview.
Keyboardist Gary Wright, who chose a bold pioneering effort which had never been attempted before then, with spectacular results and the million-selling hit “Dream Weaver”. Join the late Gary Wright here in a very rare In the Studio classic rock interview on the 50th anniversary of “The Dream Weaver”.
Grand Funk “Closer to Home” interview with Mark Farner and Don Brewer In the Studio.
The Sting and I…We had already done multiple interviews when he was in The Police and now Sting had released three solo albums, including his solo debut,”The Dream of the Blue Turtles”, by the time we reconvened in 1991. Sting had lost both parents by then, the most recent his father, and was clearly wrestling with his star ascending amidst pain and personal loss.
Simple Minds went to US #1 from performing the hit “Don’t You Forget About Me” in the soundtrack rolling under the end credits of the John Hughes Brat Pack movie “The Breakfast Club” in May 1985. But that’s just the beginning of the story of Simple Minds’ breakthrough album “Once Upon a Time”. We have lead singer/ lyricist Jim Kerr here In the Studio.
C.C. interview April 26, 2007 in Dallas by Redbeard for In the Studio. Copyright 2007, all rights reserved. FOR DEMONSTRATION ONLY. Subject log & times: No guarantees; grateful for the opportunity 00-1:58 Paid dues, washed dishes; still willing to do the work 2:11-8:18 Started songwriting very young 8:19-10:03 Second solo album Carry On, 10:12-14:20 Producers, […]