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David Bowie- Station to Station 50th Anniversary

"The way you change Music is by changing the music," David Bowie told me, without any hint of irony whatsoever, as we discussed  January 1976's "Station to Station". Songs include "Golden Years","Stay" ,"TVC 1-5" ,"Wild is the Wind" , and the title song, often cited by post-punk bands including The Cars, Talking Heads, and Gary Numan as a major influence. David Bowie guests for "Golden Years" golden anniversary.

Genesis- A Trick of the Tail 50th- Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford

The first album in the post-Peter Gabriel era, Genesis "A Trick of the Tail" interview In the Studio with Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford for the album's 50th anniversary.
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Styx- Paradise Theatre 45th Anniversary- Tommy Shaw, James Young

If I told you that forty-five years ago  one of America's top music acts released a concept album that  identified growing cracks in the foundation of our society and presciently predicted practically everything we find today, who would you guess it was? Bob Dylan? Neil Young? Crosby Stills and Nash? I doubt that Styx would come to mind to many, but that is precisely what "Paradise Theater"  was, part lament, part warning. Current members Tommy Shaw, James Young, & Lawrence Gowan all weigh in as does ex-member Dennis DeYoung on "Paradise Theater" 's forty-fifth anniversary.

Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir Passed at 78

The Grateful Dead's "other one", Bob Weir, has died from cancer at 78.

Alex Lifeson- Victor 30th Anniversary

The January 1996 solo project release "Victor"  by Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson was a highly personal rock Rorschach test for the gestalt guitarist, primal scream therapy with a beat. Alex Lifeson lies down on the couch here In the Studio on the album's thirtieth anniversary.. 
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Peter Frampton- Comes Alive 50th Anniversary

Peter Frampton interview In the Studio for "Frampton Comes Alive" 50th anniversary.
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Steve Winwood- Arc of a Diver 45th Anniversary

When I sat down In the Studio in Autumn 1990 with Steve Winwood to talk about his then new release "Refugees of the Heart" , he had already established himself with the breakthrough album  "Arc of a Dive"r  ten years prior, then midway in between released "Back in the High Life", one of the biggest albums commercially as well as critically, and "Roll With It",  in the Eighties.

R.E.M.- Fables of the Reconstruction- Michael Stipe, Peter Buck

With R.E.M. lead singer Michael Stipe and lead guitarist Peter Buck in my classic rock interview. Includes the earliest days of the Athens GA band, with songs from their first four full albums Murmur, Reckoning, Fables of the Reconstruction, & Life's Rich Pageant.
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The Who- My Generation- Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey

"In the case of The Who, the thing that comes across for me is that The Who started as a Pop band. Good Pop possibly is the sublime and the ridiculous, the important and the absurd." Pete Townshend & Roger Daltrey are my guest In the Studio for "My Generation" @60!
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Scorpions- Crazy World- Klaus Meine, Rudolph Schenker

It's the thirty-fifth anniversary of Scorpions "Crazy World". Scorpions lead singer Klaus Meine and guitarist Rudolph Schenker are my guesst In the Studio.