ROCK ME TONITE Billy Squier “Rock Me Tonite” – YouTube This is the clip that ended Billy Squier’s career, that shot him from the beer drinker’s hope to nobody’s favorite seemingly overnight. Dancing in a pink tank top? What was he thinking? He wasn’t. He listened to famous choreographer Kenny Ortega and was instantly finished. […]

Ed Sheeran – Bloodstream – YouTube Ed Sheeran – Bloodstream – Spotify This makes me want to see Ed Sheeran live. And I already have! At the Hotel Cafe Ed was trying to close us, he was willing himself into our hearts, he was performing, but “Bloodstream” is something different, it’s interior, listening to it […]

SHERRY It was not like today, there was no Disney Channel, never mind Disney Radio. All we had were three networks, a few independents and…our transistors. They were the iPods of the day, everybody was constantly buying new ones, for a few years there they were all the rage. And when you finally got a […]

FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME 1977…the beginning of corporate rock or the last hurrah before disco? There were five rock stations in L.A. From soft sounding KNX on the left hand of the dial to the free-format alternative of KROQ on the right. But most people listened to what was in between, most famously KMET […]