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INXS- Listen Like Thieves 40th- Andrew & Tim Farriss, Kirk Pengilly, the late Michael Hutchence

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”. For the story of INXS’ formative years, the band’s keyboard player/ songwriter Andrew Farriss, guitar-playing brother Tim Farriss, and guitar/sax man Kirk Pengilly, tell of the tough and tender early days forming in the most remote city in the world, Perth Australia; surviving the one-nighters there,  in Sydney and in Melbourne; allying with a talented singer from Hong Kong-via-Hollywood,  the mercurial snake-hipped Michael Hutchence;

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AC/DC- Highway to Hell- Angus Young, the late Malcolm Young

AC/DC original lead singer Bon Scott’s generous body art and ear studs, plus his affable demeanor, made Scott appear less like a rock singer and more like a character out of Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick”…Angus Young and the late Malcolm Young are my guests for “Highway to Hell”.

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Cheap Trick- At Budokan- Rick Nielsen, Robin Zander

Rockford, Illinois’s Cheap Trick proved to be no joke on the live, Japan-only “At Budokan”, but the story of how the rest of the world ever got to hear it in February 1979 is a total fluke. Hear the story In the Studio from Cheap Trick’s Robin Zander and Rick Nielsen.

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Jeff Beck has Died After a Short Illness

“Mr. Beck could weaponize his strings to hit like a stun gun or caress them to express what felt like a kiss…”. Clearly exceptional. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/arts/music/jeff-beck-dead.html?smid=url-share

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Peter Gabriel- Us

The various subjects on Peter Gabriel’s “Us”, like the deep funky grooves, are all killer and no filler, from the pleading divorced parent to his regressing child on “Come Talk to Me”. the matter-of-fact demystification of personal therapy in “Digging in the Dirt”, to the Biblical allusions in “Blood of Eden”, inspired by Gabriel’s study of capital punishment. My exclusive classic rock interview with Peter Gabriel, in front of a small intimate audience, was his first reveal of those songs in September 1992, plus “Love to Be Loved”, “Steam”, “Kiss That Frog”, and “Secret World”. Part one of two.