Emerson, Lake, & Palmer- Carl Palmer, the late Greg Lake & Keith Emerson
It is the 55th anniversary of Emerson, Lake, & Palmer. Carl Palmer is my guest, along with my archival interviews of the late Keith Emerson and Greg Lake.
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It is the 55th anniversary of Emerson, Lake, & Palmer. Carl Palmer is my guest, along with my archival interviews of the late Keith Emerson and Greg Lake.
In 1985 ZZ Top’s”Afterburner” kicked in. But don’t go looking for it in the 2019 ZZ Top rockumentary film “That Little Ol’ Band from Texas” .That otherwise well-done pastiche of just some of the chapters in this colorful trio’s fifty year telenovela implied that all meaningful recording by ZZ Top wrapped at the conclusion of “Eliminator” way back in 1983. Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard join me here In the Studio for “Sleeping Bag”,”Stages”,”Woke Up with Wood”, and “Planet of Women”.
… the story of Simple Minds’ breakthrough 1985 album “Once Upon a Time” . We have lead singer/ lyricist Jim Kerr here In the Studio.
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;
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.
with 100,000 people for Live Aid US, I stood back of center stage about ten feet behind Phil Collins who was seated at a black grand piano. Beside me looking over his 3″x 5″ recipe cards with notes for stage announcements stood Jack Nicholson. Collins, fresh off the Concorde supersonic jet which had conveyed him from his earlier performance at the London Live Aid concert, sang his surprise movie hit “Against All Odds” and then “the other song I know on piano”…In the Air Tonight.
Free “Fire and Water” In the Studio with Paul Rodgers.
Grand Funk “Closer to Home” interview with Mark Farner and Don Brewer In the Studio.
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”.
It is only fitting that Mick Jones, the British ex-pat who founded Foreigner more than four decades ago, should be the last man standing of the original band two decades into the twenty-first century. Here Mick is joined by current Foreigner lead singer Kelly Hansen.
