Simple Minds- Once Upon a Time 40th Anniversary- Jim Kerr
the story of Simple Minds’ breakthrough album “Once Upon a Time”forty years ago. We have lead singer/ lyricist Jim Kerr here In the Studio.
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the story of Simple Minds’ breakthrough album “Once Upon a Time”forty years ago. We have lead singer/ lyricist Jim Kerr here In the Studio.
It was the mid-Eighties, and rolling the streets of Dallas/Ft.Worth at night felt less like a big-block muscle car and just right in a fire-engine red BMW M3, moonroof open, with The Cult “Love” cassette jammed in the dash player blasting “She Sells Sanctuary”and “Rain”. The Cult guitarist/songwriter Billy Duffy is my guest In the Studio.
In 1980 for their third album “Making Movies”, Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits’ easily least melancholy, most upbeat batch of songs, Mark Knopfler joins me here In the Studio for “Making Movies”.
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.
Double Trouble’s Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon are joined by blues legend Buddy Guy and my rare archival 1984 interview with the late Stevie Ray Vaughan here In the Studio for Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble’s “Soul to Soul”.
It is bittersweet to share with you the World Premiere radio broadcast of INXS “X” which I was so fortunate to get to produce and host in September 1990 with guests lead singer/lyricist Michael Hutchence and keyboardist/composer Andrew Farriss.
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;
there was high drama and great music before with the third-time’s-the-charm “Lady”, then 1975’s strong Equinox album containing “Light Up”, “Lorelei”, and the timeless “Suite: Madame Blue”. Band leaders even today James “JY” Young and Tommy Shaw look back on the Equinox along with the original former co-founding member who wrote and sang all of those songs, Dennis DeYoung
British blues-rock foursome Foghat’s “Fool for the City” album, with the title song plus “Slow Ride”, dominated American FM airplay from its release in September 1975 all through the following year (#20 Billboard). Foghat were four British electric bluesmen who comprised the most successful limb of the sprawling Savoy Brown musical family tree, albeit that success almost exclusively in North America. This is a bittersweet edition of In the Studio as both of my guests in this classic rock interview, Foghat co-founding guitarist/singer/songwriter Lonesome Dave Peverett and slide guitarist/songwriter Rod Price, have since passed away.
The late Ozzy Osbourne In the Studio for the making of 1980’s “Blizzard of Ozz” .
