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We had never met anyone in rock music quite like The Pretenders bandleader Chrissie Hynde, and honestly in the forty+ years since, I still haven’t…I have Ms. Hynde here to speak for herself In the Studio about The Pretenders/ Pretenders II, one of rock’s most important one-two Post-punk punches.
Jimi Hendrix performed two 1970 Memorial Day concerts in Berkeley CA at which he unveiled unreleased songs, including the portentous “Hear My Train a Comin’ “. Presented to honor American Black History Month.
It is clear on the 35th anniversary of R.E.M.’s “Out of Time” album that the song from it, “Losing My Religion”, has weathered the time in between exceedingly well. “Pop culture, particularly in the US, everything comes and goes in cycles, as things do,” points out R.E.M. singer/ lyricist Michael Stipe, “which we all realize as we all grow older and wiser, whether it’s politics or music or pop culture…I always wanted to have a song that would be considered ‘the song of the Summer’. As it was, that song kind of became the song of the year,” he chuckled. Ten million copies sold and three Grammy Awards later, nobody could argue the case.
The Sting and I…We had already done multiple interviews when he was in The Police and now Sting had released three solo albums, including his solo “The Soul Cages”, by the time we reconvened in 1991. Sting had lost both parents by then, the most recent his father, and was clearly wrestling with his star ascending amidst pain and personal loss.
It’s the thirty-fifth anniversary of Scorpions “Crazy World”. Scorpions lead singer Klaus Meine and guitarist Rudolph Schenker are my guesst In the Studio.
For “Lola”, Kinks singer/songwriter Sir Ray Davies In the Studio discussing those essential Kinks recordings.
… the story of Simple Minds’ breakthrough 1985 album “Once Upon a Time” . We have lead singer/ lyricist Jim Kerr here In the Studio.
Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood for the brief Blind Faith story In the Studio.
March 1994’s “The Division Bell” by Pink Floyd became the last offering of new music from the remaining triumvirate of singer/guitarist/composer David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason, and keyboard player Richard Wright. “The Division Bell” sold over three million copies just in the Nineties thirty years ago. Gilmour and Mason join me In the Studio on the 30th anniversary.
Billy Idol joined me In the Studio for the fortieth anniversary of “Rebel Yell” to invoke the eleventh commandment: thou shalt have no Idols before Billy! -Redbeard