For fans of ‘80s pop music, the current Retro Futura tour is a dream bill, featuring a lineup of Katrina (from Katrina and the Waves), China Crisis, Midge Ure of Ultravox fame, Howard Jones and Thompson Twins frontman Tom Bailey. I had the chance to see the tour when it came through Cleveland last week […]
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Richard Marx On Songwriting And His ‘Beautiful Goodbye’
I spoke with Richard Marx in early March for a story that ran locally prior to his show here in Cleveland in April. For those of you who are regular readers of the blog, it will come as no surprise that I’m a lifelong Marx fan. Even if I wasn’t a fan, just learning that […]
A Peculiar Life: The ATV Interview with Richard Page
Life is full of happy accidents — I was in the midst of setting up an interview with Gary Wright via his publicist and mentioned to him that former Mr. Mister vocalist Richard Page (Wright’s current tour mate) had a new solo album out. Wright relayed to his publicist that Richard was willing to speak […]
Getting Connected: The ATV Interview with Gary Wright
As a younger guy in my mid-30s (unlike my Jurassic ol’ pal Bear), it’s always a bit of a rock and roll history lesson any time that I get the opportunity to talk to a classic artist like Gary Wright. The rock and roll resume of Wright is mind numbing to read and even more […]
The Band – The Last Waltz
Having my own music blog has really magnified one of the things that I love most about life – the musical journeys that you take, and are introduced to, by friends. A couple of weeks ago, I was catching up on the massive stack of blogs in my Google Reader…..which really makes me think about […]