Professor of Rock

Coming up, We Break down the biggest selling album of Rush’s storied career, celebrating Moving Pictures 40th Anniversary by unboxing the Deluxe 5 Lp set. You Can Purchase Here: https://rush.lnk.to/MovingPictures40th0F Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In early 1988 the INXS song Need You Tonight went to #1… becoming the signature hit for a legendary band with closet full of hits and memorable songs..Not bad for a song that was written on a crappy little 8 track machine while a taxi honked impatiently while it’s co writer Andrew Farriss tried to finish it so he wouldn’t miss his plane to Hong Kong to write with iconic lead singer, Michael Hutchence who listen to it and wrote the memorable lyrics in just a few minutes… This is one of the most entertaining song stories ever with the actually co writer here to tell us next… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

WE count down the top 5 hidden gems from 80s movies. When you do this, it’s almost impossible to avoid the great John Hughes. He fingerprints were all over the greatest movies of the time like Weird Science (OINGO BOINGO), Pretty in Pink (OMD), Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (The Beatles) The Breakfast Club (Simple Minds) but here we capture the hidden gems in his and others films including the Karate Kid, The Wild Life, and Sixteen Candles as some of the icons of the era help me count them down and tell the stories, including Paul Young, Huey Lewis, Young MC and Tom Bailey of the Thompson Twins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

up next one of the most under appreciated singers of the 80s had a few years of bad luck in the industry… until he was in the right place at the right time and got a career defining opportunity when one of the biggest movies of 1990 used their song in the opening credits and the song became a smash. The heart stopping singer tells us the story of one of the greatest movie songs ever and how the title came from a random comment at a bar…next on professor of rock brought to you by Zenni. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

While Canadian Singer-Songwriter Gordon Lightfoot was at his secluded Farm entrenched in writing his new album, his drop-dead gorgeous girlfriend went out on the town and partied.. As the sun began to set, he began to wonder who she might be with, and even worse, what she might be doing. Crazy with jealousy, he penned the gut-wrenching 1970s #1 hit Sundown that no boyfriend wants to think too hard about… so what really happened that night FIND OUT NEXT on the Professor of Rock. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

One of the most heart wrenching love songs of the 80s steeped in a happy go lucky feel. Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits is a bit of conundrum. Find out what this riddle of a song means from their 1980 classic album Making Movies and how Mark Knopfler took a breakup and made it an all-time standard next on Professor of Rock Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

in 1989 a song was released that blew up radio with its sophisticated, multi-layered pop elegance. (sowing) the Seeds Of Love By Tears for Fears would capture the hearts and minds of listeners globally. Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith had created another phenomenal record after taking the world by storm with 1985’s masterpiece Songs from the Big Chair which included the #1 hits Everybody Wants to Rule the World and Shout. The story of making the Seeds of Love is next, including it’s rise to the top of the charts and it’s influences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In world of Autotuned, plastic pop fast food music, is there anyway to save great music? Is there a way to save one of the most important art forms in history of our world? We must. THE ALBUM is about to be extinct.. Imagine all that you have gained from Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon, Led Zeppelin IV, Rush Moving Pictures, Peter Gabriel So, Prince Purple Rain, The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beach Boys Pet Sounds, Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde, Fleetwood Mac Rumours and on and on...What can we do to keep the album alive? With several interviews from rock hall of famers and Muti-platinum Icons next we try to solve this conundrum... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

George Michael was a part of the big 80s duo that had 3 #1 hits and one of the most successful albums of 1985 Wham Make It Big… then he went solo and went even bigger…SO big that he surpassed the newest releases by Prince, Michael Jackson, Madonna and Whitney Houston with his 1987 LP Faith. up next the story of his blockbuster album Faith that had 6 top 5 hits and 4 of those went to #1 including Monkey, Father Figure, Faith, and One More Try. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

the true story of John Fogerty formerly of Creedence Clearwater Revival CCR who was put on trial for plagiarizing himself. Sued for writing a song that sounded too much, well... like him. His enemy said that his 1985 hit The Old Man Down the Road sounded to close to CCR’s 70s hit Run Through the Jungle With this trial, the right to have your own musical style hung in the balance. If found guilty, this artist’s record label would get the royalties and the last laugh. But if found innocent, songwriters everywhere could breathe a sigh of relief. We're letting you be judge and jury on this one. Was this song a carbon copy clone? Or was it an original tune with some sonic similarities? You give the verdict... NEXT on the Professor of Rock. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.