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Def Leppard- High ‘n’ Dry 45th Anniversary- Joe Elliott, Rick Savage

Def Leppard's Joe Elliott, Ric Savage, & Phil Collen join Redbeard "In the Studio" for the 45th anniversary of "High 'n' Dry".

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers- Into the Great Wide Open 35th Anniversary

Tom Petty's new-found confidence from "Full Moon Fever'" universal acclaim, both critically and commercially, is evident from the start on "Into the Great Wide Open" thirty-five years ago with "Learning to Fly". Don't miss this cherished conversation recorded in Tom Petty's home, rebuilt from the ashes of an arsonist's attack, here In the Studio the week of June 29.

Allman Brothers Band- Live at Fillmore East 55th Anniversary 6-22

To mark the fifty-fifth anniversary of the album widely hailed as one of the greatest concert recordings ever, we present my archival interviews with the late Gregg Allman and Dickey Betts from In the Studio regarding the Allman Brothers Band "Live at Fillmore East" the week of 6/22..
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Dave Matthews Band- Crash 30th Anniversary

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...
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Emerson, Lake, and Palmer- Tarkus @55

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.

Steve Winwood- Back in the High Life 40th Anniversary 6-15

Steve Winwood joins me In the Studio in my rare interview covering the biggest album in his long illustrious career, "Back in the High Life" (three Grammys, over three million sold US), on its fortieth anniversary the week of June 15.
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Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band- Like a Rock 40th Anniversary

No one Bob Seger song is more recalled by Americans of all ages than "Like a Rock", and for good reason: throughout the Nineties and into the new millennium, no song was more ubiquitous on US television than the album's title song, albeit thirty seconds at a time! Bob Seger is my guest here In the Studio on the fortieth anniversary of the #3-charting platinum album "Like a Rock".
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Rush- 2112- 50th Anniversary- Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson

"2112"  by Rush was an amalgam of hard rock, progressive rock, science-fiction and Ayn Rand socio-economics right about the same time that The Ramones, The Dead Boys, and Ian Dury and the Blockheads were singing "Sex and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll". So things were about to get interesting in 1976. Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson of Rush join me here In the Studio on "2112" golden anniversary.

Pink Floyd- Division Bell World Premiere- Miami 3-30-94

One thing is incontrovertible about Pink Floyd: their collective creative imagination has always innovated, and usually in a very big way. Such was Pink Floyd's decision to debut their Division Bell album, seven years in the making, live on…
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Led Zeppelin- Presence 50th Anniversary- Jimmy Page

The recorded performances of "Achilles' Last Stand", "Nobody's Fault but Mine", and "For Your Life" from Led Zeppelin "Presence" were so realistic as to be almost palpable, about which the sonic slam startles even now half a century later. Jimmy Page is my guest In the Studio.