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How did Pink Floyd evolve from the sublime introspection of “Dark Side of the Moon” in 1973 to the madness and despair of “The Wall” six years later? David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Roger Waters explore the dark, ominous, yet vitally important transitional musical missing link, January 1977’s “Animals” here in my classic rock interview, an album that was highly anticipated.
Judging by the sheer outsized volume of well-deserved attention heaped on Pink Floyd’s 1973 game changer “Dark Side of the Moon”, one could easily assume it was the Cambridge, England quartet’s first of any consequence. “Meddle”, containing the embryonic epic “Echoes”, my guests Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and co-founder with Syd Barrett, Roger Waters unanimously maintain that “Meddle” was their Apollo 8 musical mission which soon after allowed Pink Floyd’s lunar landing on the far side of rock history.
The late original Pink Floyd keyboard player Rick Wright was born July 28th.
When Pink Floyd were putting the finishing touches on “Dark Side of the Moon” at Abbey Road Studios, a very young and impressionable Joe Elliott and Ric Savage would have been all ears in the northern industrial city of Manchester hearing the delicious, otherworldly song “Rock On” by David Essex on BBC Radio One. Check out Def Leppard’s impressive 21st century live-in-the-studio version.
The mid-Eighties was a most difficult time for the titans of rock’s Second Generation. The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and The Who were no longer recording, touring, and in some cases even SPEAKING together. Rock’n’roll was officially in full-blown midlife crisis …Pete Townshend joins me In the Studio for Deep End Live.
Led Zeppelin III appeared October 5, 1970 with surprisingly little notice. Containing “The Immigrant Song”,”Gallows Pole”, and “Since I’ve Been Loving You”, Led Zeppelin III also planted exotic seeds of sounds in “Friends” with its Middle Eastern orchestration, which would skip several subsequent albums only to germinate with legendary impact on Physical Grafitti . My guests Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and Led Zeppelin “III” recording engineer at Ardent Studio in Memphis, Terry Manning, tell the story 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”. 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;
For the sublime “Selling England by the Pound” by Genesis, I am joined by Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins In the Studio.
Paul McCartney for “Flowers in the Dirt” 35th anniversary In the Studio with Redbeard !
In memoriam : More” Echoes In the Studio”, pt 4 with my rare interviews with fallen classic rockers Lou Reed, Bon Scott, Rick Wright, Malcolm Young, George Harrison, David Bowie