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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.
Even over fifty-five years later, my guest here In the Studio John Fogerty’s sound and vision on “Green River” and “Willy and the Poor Boys” were completely self-contained and, to this day, never duplicated.
With “Low Budget”, the Kinks’ July 1979 biggest seller in their long storied career, it becomes apparent that The Kinks were the ultimate slacker band. Led by the Poet Laureate of Rock, my guest Sir Ray Davies, it certainly wasn’t for lack of creative brilliance, but for a dearth of ambition.
Paul McCartney for “Flowers in the Dirt” 35th anniversary In the Studio with Redbeard !
The late David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash In the Studio for their 1969 debut!
The many stages of The Who’s “Tommy” conception, gestation, and birth as the first successful rock opera are further revealed, it seems, every time “Tommy” composer Pete Townshend cleans out a storage closet. Townshend joins Redbeard In the Studio to present this rock sonogram of The Who “Tommy” while still in the creative womb, part 1.
So take George Harrison’s knowing advice, “Live in the light” of his own actual words here In the Studio with my interviews, in part one covering his 1970s Dark Horse years with the songs “What Is Life” and “My Sweet Lord”, “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)”, “Blow Away”, “All Those Years Ago” with Harrison’s tribute to John Lennon, and with Eric Clapton “Live in Japan” in the Nineties. Part one of two.
“Bohemian Rhapsody” is only the first volume of the five decade Queen saga whose final chapter is being writ large in real time across North America this summer…