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Interviews

Our discussions with many significant classic rock artists and others.

They wrote dozens of seminal rock and R&B hits, including “Jailhouse Rock,” “Kansas City,” “Hound Dog” and “Stand By Me.”

The 1976 album ranks as one of the best-selling debut albums in music history with 17 million copies sold in the U.S. alone

From our interview: “The two of us would go on all day and into the night and start again the next day. It was mental telepathy”

In a 2017 interview, the founder of the Tower Records retail music corporation discussed the history of the company. He died in 2018 at age 92.

Not only a renowned singer-songwriter in his own right, Tom Rush helped popularize peers like Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and Jackson Browne.

The filmmaker recalls the other ‘Beaver’ kids, offers his views on being a child actor, and muses on the impact of the show.

“When we started we were arrogant enough to think we would be successful, in spite of the fact that what we were doing was far off the beaten path.”

In honor of this true individualist, we present a “lost” interview from 2003, when Yoko was emerging as a dance music star.

“Robby or Jim would come up with the original idea. But boy, the four of us would get together, change and modify and polish the songs.”—Ray Manzarek

Of the 1977 album, he says, “there was no way the band was going to survive this. It [ultimately] served as a bonding experience”