Beatles Historian Larry Kane
I enjoyed my conversation with Beatles historian Larry Kane last month on America Weekend so much that I invited him to join me on KTRS today to tell more stories from his new book, "When They Were Boys," which covers the band in the years before they came to America....
Ray Manzarek of The Doors
Ray Manzarek, keyboard player for The Doors, died of cancer in Germany today at age 74. I had the pleasure of interviewing Ray a few times, and have dug up one of those conversations from my archives. It was May 7, 2007, when Ray and I talked about The Doors and his...
John Oates
John Oates is a member of the Songwriters Hall Of Fame, and with his partner Daryl Hall was responsible for 7 platinum albums, 6 gold albums, 34 hit singles, and 6 number one songs: "Kiss On My List," "Maneater," "I Can’t Go For That," "Rich Girl," "Private Eyes," and...
How The Beatles Rocked The Kremlin
Leslie Woodhead saw the Beatles in Liverpool in 1962, before Beatlemania had raged across the ocean to America and then to the rest of the world -- even the Soviet Union, where their music was banned. But as he explained today on my America Weekend show, kids behind...
Midnight Rider Mistake
GEICO is using the Allman Brothers Band's song "Midnight Rider" in its new ad for motorcycle insurance, but I have to wonder if anyone at their ad agency knows that two original members of the band -- Duane Allman and Berry Oakley -- both died in motorcycle accidents,...
Fred Schneider of the B-52’s
Here's my conversation with Fred Schneider, lead singer of the B-52's, who are still touring, although he's in St. Louis without the rest of the band to perform this weekend with the Gateway Men's Chorus. We discussed the group's origins, how hard it was to get on...
Henry Grossman, Beatles Photographer
Henry Grossman took more photos of the Beatles over a longer time than any other photographer – over 6,000 of them between 1964 and 1968 for Time and Life magazines. He has now compiled more than a thousand of them into "Places I Remember: My Time With The Beatles."...
James Brown on The TAMI Show
There's a lyric in The Police song, "When The World Is Running Down" that I didn't understand when I first heard it. It sound like Sting sang, "James Brown on Tammy's show." I did some research and discovered that the line was actually "James Brown on The TAMI Show,"...