Darby Mills On the Beginning of the Headpins and Her Exit (#1) Darby Mills is the real deal in rock. They don’t call you the “Queen of Scream” for nothing. As the lead singer for the Headpins they came out of the gate in the early 80’s selling 600 thousand […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKS0oV4DUBI (Interview Clip #5) Bobby Rydell On Hearing his First Hit “Kissin’ Time” on the Radio He was only 17 when he had his first hit with “Kissin’ Time’ in 1959. He would go on to have 19 Top 40 hits including “Wild One” from 1960, Volare, his signature tune […]
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Illustrator Has Never Met Elton John (4) “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” was the second album I ever bought. The First was Elton’s “Madman Across The Water.” There was a lot of real estate on this album. The inside gatefold was amazingly done David Larkham, Michael Ross […]
Henry Gross Schools Us On Comedy (Interview #4) I first asked Henry Gross for an interview almost two years ago. He sang one of my favorite ballads from the seventies, “Shannon.” I like the song so much I wanted to name my first born Shannon. When I met my second […]
WKRP in Cincinnati was my favorite TV show in the seventies. When it debuted in 1978 all I wanted, besides chicks, was landing a fair start as a radio DJ. By then I had already been playing “pretend” radio guy in my bedroom for 6 years. I loved everything about […]
LFO’S DEVIN LIMA DEAD AT 41 The singer died after battling stage 4 cancer for the last year. LFO were known for their hits “Summer Girls” and “Girl On TV” from 1999 as well as “Every Other Time.” The band was originally know as the Lyte Funkie Ones with three […]
CLICK ON THE VIDEO https://youtu.be/d2B4aSBmb8s Nazareth’s Pete Agnew On Love For joni Mitchell & “This Flight Tonight” (#4) Nazareth wrote most of their own songs there were a lot of retooled covers like Leon Russell’s “Alcatraz” and “Vigilante Man” by Woody Guthrie from 1973’s “Razamanaz.” They did Randy Newman’s “Guilty” […]
Joe Perry Cancels Fall Solo Tour Following Backstage Collapse The good news is he’s OK. It was just 10 days ago when Perry got on stage with Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden when he collapsed after leaving the stage. His solo tour was going to start next week but […]
https://youtu.be/xSQ3nfqtWQ4 (interview #3) Three Philly Teen Idols and Great Friends – Bobby Rydell, Frankie Avalon & Fabian Between these three Philadelphia boys there were 37 hits on the US Top 40 charts. Fabian with seven, Frankie Avalon with eleven and Bobby Rydell at 19. There must have been something […]
The Rolling Stones Announce 2019 ‘No Filter’ U.S. Stadium Tour by John Beaudin The classic bands new tour will hit 13 cities in 2019 beginning in April You will have 13 chances to see the Stones in the U.S. Next year. This tour kicks off April 20th at the Hard […]
