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U2- Achtung Baby 35th Anniversary- The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen jr 11-16

It is the thirty-fifth anniversary of U2's first album in the '90s, U2's The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen jr, and Bono the week of November 16 here In the Studio for "Achtung Baby" @ 35.

Genesis- We Can’t Dance 35th- Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks, Phil Collins 11-9

Although in November 1991 we had no way of knowing it, "We Can't Dance" by Genesis turned out to be the final album of new music by Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks, and Phil Collins as Genesis. The Progressive Rock stalwarts' fourteenth album (!), "We Can't Dance" was also Genesis's fifth consecutive #1 seller.Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks, and Phil Collins for my classic rock interview marking the Genesis swan song "We Can't Dance "next week of November 9.

Led Zeppelin IV @55- Jimmy Page, Robert Plant 11-2

Led Zeppelin mastermind guitarist, composer, arranger, and producer non-pareil Jimmy Page and singer/lyricist Robert Plant are my guests In the Studio on the fifty-fifth anniversary of a pillar of twentieth century rock, Led Zeppelin 4 the week of November 2!

Tom Cochrane- Mad Mad World 35th Anniversary

The tumblers all clicked for Tom Cochrane with the September 1991 (2/92 in the US) release of "Mad Mad World" containing the Billboard #6 earworm "Life is a Highway", driving initial sales of over 500,000 copies in the US alone. Tom Cochrane is my guest In the Studio on the thirty-fifth anniversary of "Mad Mad World".

The Pretenders- Pretenders II @45- Chrissie Hynde

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.
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Moody Blues- Every Good Boy Deserves Favour 55th- Justin Hayward, John Lodge, the late Graeme Edge

"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.
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers- Into the Great Wide Open 35th

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- 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".

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...

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.