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My second George Harrison interview that focused on his return to performing in England for the first time in over 25 years on stage at London’s Royal Albert Hall; the support of his longtime friend,Eric Clapton; and several examples of his delightful impish sense of humor.
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.
“Big Doyle” Bramhall (so-called because his son Doyle II is an accomplished singer/songwriter/guitarist with the Arcangels and Eric Clapton) came to international acclaim when his songs “Change It”,”The House Is Rockin’ “,”Tightrope”,”Wall of Denial”, and “Life By the Drop” were recorded by fellow Dallas native Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, as well as “Telephone Song” and “Long Way from Home” on Stevie ‘s last album “Family Style” with his brother Jimmie Vaughan. In tribute to this wonderful sweet man, here’s my October 2007 exclusive interview with the late Big Doyle Bramhall.
Here is Genesis 30 June 1990 performing “Mama” to over 100,000 on one humid, rainy day at that year’s annual Knebworth Festival outside London.
Aerosmith “Rocks”. It was a declarative statement in May 1976 with no equivocation. If “Toys in the Attic” a year earlier had been the definitive mid-Seventies American hard rock statement, then Aerosmith “Rocks” made it musically imperative with “Back in the Saddle”, “Sick as a Dog”, the clever sequel to “Toys…” with “Rats in the Cellar”, and another infectious Steven Tyler/Brad Whitford hit, “Last Child”. Fifty years of Aerosmith “Rocks”!
My guest Billy Squier’s 1981 second solo album “Don’t Say No” sold over three million copies forty-five years ago because of songs “In the Dark” , “My Kinda Lover” , “Lonely Is the Night”, & the big hit ” The Stroke”.
It was their fifth album,”Listen Like Thieves” in Fall 1985, where INXS finally picked the lock to the top of the American charts with “Listen Like Thieves”. keyboard player/songwriter Andrew Farriss, guitar-playing brother Tim Farriss, and guitar/sax man Kirk Pengilly, tell of the tough and tender early days ; allying with a talented singer from Hong Kong-via-Hollywood, the mercurial snake-hipped Michael Hutchence;
Widely viewed along with Bob Dylan, The Byrds, and Gram Parsons as fathers of the Americana musical movement, The Band also may have been one of rock’s first alternative groups. In part one of this classic rock interview, main songwriter Robbie Robertson (“The Weight”,”The Night They Drove Ol’Dixie Down”,”Up on Cripple Creek”,”The Shape I’m In”) helps me make that case on the 55th anniversary of “Stage Fright”.
Proving to the whole world that day to be anything other than “Helpless”, Neil Young and a cast of a hundred thousand in Philadelphia’s JFK Stadium joined a similar group in London’s Wembley Stadium via satellite, and an estimated 1.4 billion viewing and listening worldwide, to raise money and awareness for starving residents of Ethiopia, Sudan, and sub-Saharan Africa on July 13, 1985 for Live Aid 35th anniversary.
For Memorial Day Weekend 2025: “Echoes In the Studio”, the voices of & tributes to fallen rockers. Part three of four.