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Al Stewart joins me In the Studio in a rare interview about his breakout 1976 album “Year of the Cat”. But being witness repeatedly to rock history apparently accounted for nothing when Al Stewart’s seventh album, “Year of the Cat”, was unceremoniously turned down by every major UK record label 50 years ago.
“Every Good Boy Deserves Favour” was the Moody Blues’ seventh album in a string of commercially and critically popular efforts. Singer/lead guitarist Justin Hayward, singer/bass player the late John Lodge, and departed Moody Blues co-founder drummer Graeme Edge take “Every Good Boy Deserves Favour” to share here In the Studio insights into some of the Moody Blues’ best of those early years.
Hard-charging San Francisco juggernaut Journey unveiled a defining album for the decade with “Escape” in July 1981, containing “Don’t Stop Believin’ “,”Stone in Love”, “Who’s Crying Now”,”Open Arms”, and “Mother, Father”. For the forty-fifth anniversary of this timeless effort, the Journey songwriting triumvirate of Steve Perry, founding guitarist Neal Schon, and new recruit then Jonathan Cain all recall their daring “Escape”.
July 1991’s “Into the Great Wide Open”, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ first post-Traveling Wilburys/”Full Moon Fever” effort with his own band. First, Tom turned forty. “I’ll probably look back at this as some kind of mid-life crisis album,” Petty chuckled, “and go,’God, I should’ve just lightened up ! Should’ve had a drink and forgot about it!’ ,,.It’s very hard living your life as we have in tour buses and airplanes for all of this time… And you do kind of realize that ,’ Gee, twenty more and I’m outta here!’ So you do take stock of that, you do.”
Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott, Ric Savage, & Phil Collen join Redbeard “In the Studio” for the 45th anniversary of “High ‘n’ Dry”.
“It went platinum (1,000,000 sales ) in thirteen days,” Pat Benatar states matter-of-factly while she and hubby/ musical director Neil Giraldo reminisce In the Studio about the explosive third album,”Precious Time”, as it headed rapidly to the top-selling perch in America in Summer 1981…
Genesis’ biggest album in their long fifty year+ career, “Invisible Touch” (worldwide sales estimated at 15,000,000) turns forty, so we convened Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks, and Phil Collins here In the Studio to discuss the blockbuster sales behind “Tonight, Tonight, Tonight”, “Land of Confusion”, “In Too Deep”, “Throwing It All Away”, and “Invisible Touch”.
After meeting and interviewing Dave Matthews during the 1996 Horde Festival tour just as their second studio album, Crash, was being released, none of the subsequent successes of the Dave Matthews Band since then has surprised me. Impressed ? Absolutely, but not surprised…
Listening now to the epic title song to “Tarkus”, the second studio album in June1971 which followed quickly after their stunning 1970 debut, with Greg Lake’s voice delicately yet nimbly bounding along to Keith Emerson’s piano runs, it’s clear that Emerson Lake and Palmer were much less “Be Bop a Lula” in their melodic grandeur and much more “Andrew Lloyd Weber”. Here In the Studio is the story in their own words of progressive rock’s first supergroup.
Deep Purple’s “Fireball” is the under-appreciated entry to “Machine Head”., with Ian Gillan and Roger Glover In the Studio.