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After doing a few shows based on the near-anarchy of Winter 1982, it feels almost comforting to go back one decade to the relative sanity of 1972.
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We’ve looked at the Winter of 1982 from both sides now – pop and alternative album tracks – but I know that we are still missing a huge chunk of the story. ...read more
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This is the way that I remember 1982- not from the mostly pop tunes that we played last week, but from the oddly idiosyncratic albums that were cropping up ...read more
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This show is a study in perspective, or maybe it’s payback, although I can’t say exactly why I would want to deliberately torture our audience…
The ...read more
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At American Hit Radio, if it’s Wednesday, it must be 1972… Once again, I’m obsessing over how great popular music was from this era.
Last show, I ...read more
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Holy mackerel….
Throughout 2011, most of our Wednesday shows focused on anniversary dates – 1961, 1971, 1981, etc., but it seems we spent most of our ...read more
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As 1962 dawned, rock and roll was all but dead, but pop music was still pretty darn glorious. For the most part, the best songs that made the top 40 were ...read more
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“Paul Simon” and Jackson Browne's “Saturate Before Using”
For all intents and purposes, 1972 marked the year that the musical and social influences of ...read more
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Just because it was January – traditionally a slow music month – doesn’t mean that there weren’t classic releases back in January 1971. Forty years ago, ...read more
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There have been innumerable charity events before George Harrison’s "Concert for Bangladesh", but this show marks the first time on record that superstars ...read more
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