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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, […]
The September 1981 release of Genesis “Abacab”. The veteran English band’s eleventh studio album, nevertheless it was the first Genesis album to breach the American Top Ten album sales on Billboard , and surprisingly the first Genesis million seller. Yet it is no minor miracle that my guests Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins, and Tony Banks could make it to the Progressive Rock promised land.
Billy Joel “Glass Houses” has sold over ten million copies, stayed at #1 for six consecutive weeks, was the 4th-best seller for the entire year 1980, and won Billy Joel a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Billy Joel joins me In the Studio.
It was over fifty years ago that US audiences were introduced through a Paul McCartney song,”Come and Get It”, to a little-known English band The Iveys, soon to be rechristened Badfinger and to become second only to The Beatles in sales on the Apple Records label.
Simon & Garfunkel’s” Bridge Over Troubled Water”, which swept the 1971 Grammy Awards with six including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year for the title song.It ranks as #172 on Rolling Stone magazine’s “Top 500 Albums of All Time”,#7 on the BBC’s all time list, and has sold more than 25 million copies worldwide. Art Garfunkel joined me In The Studio for this very rare conversation.
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 Harrison’s “If I Needed Someone”, “Michelle”, and it opened with “Drive My Car”. When […]
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 and delight last night, only two performances into their previously unreleased and […]
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.