CooperTalk
997 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsStraight out of Philly! Entertainer Steve Cooper is ”Only as hip as his guests”. He hosts Comedians, Actors, Writers and Musicians and spends an hour with them for some organic chat about the biz!
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Episodes
Steven Brill - Episode 903
April 12, 2022 00:32 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBSteve Cooper talks with director/writer/actor Steven Brill. Steven is best known for writing The Mighty Ducks, D2: The Mighty Ducks and D3: The Mighty Ducks as well as writing and directing the Adam Sandler movie Little Nicky. He has also scripted movies such as Heavyweights, Ready to Rumble and Walk of Shame and directed numerous films including Without a Paddle, Mr. Deeds, Drillbit Taylor, The Do-Over, Sandy Wexler, Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh and Hubie Halloween.
Kevin Chapman - Episode 902
April 02, 2022 17:17 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Kevin Chapman. Kevin is best known for playing Detective Lionel Fusco on the hit CBS series Person of Interest. He has also been a regular or had a recurring role in such shows as Brotherhood, City on a Hill, Kevin Can Go F*ck Himself, Sneaky Pete, Rescue Me and 24. His guest star roles include series such as Criminal Minds, Sons of Anarchy, Lost, Cold Case, Blue Bloods, The Punisher, The Equalizer, Billions and NCIS. He recently appeared in the Oscar winning f...
Bill Smitrovich - Episode 901
March 25, 2022 18:54 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Bill Smitrovich. Bill's first prominent role was in the 1980s series Crime Story as Detective Danny Krychek. He went on to star in the hit drama series Life Goes On. He later became the lead guest-star in the pilot film of the 1980s crime-drama hit series Miami Vice, and also appeared in the final episode of NYPD Blue. He has also been seen in The Henry Lee Project and Millennium. He is perhaps best known for his roles on the A&E series A Nero Wolfe Mystery as I...
Jim True-Frost - Episode 900
March 19, 2022 17:57 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Jim True-Frost. Jim is most known for his portrayal of Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski on all five seasons of the acclaimed HBO series The Wire and as James Woodrow in Treme. He has been an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago since 1989 and his numerous TV and movie credits include Singles, American Rust, Homicide: Life on the Street, The Hudsucker Proxy, Boardwalk Empire, Blue Bloods, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Good Wife, Elemen...
Steven Weber - Episode 899
March 10, 2022 22:10 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Steven Weber. Steven is best known for his role as Brian Hackett in the long-running NBC sitcom Wings. He has played a stream of comedic and dramatic recurring roles on such TV programs as Without a Trace, Brothers & Sisters, Dallas, Murder in the First, Helix, iZombie, House of Lies, NCIS: New Orleans, Ballers, Get Shorty, 13 Reasons Why, Indebted and Chicago Med. Guest star credits include series like The D.A., Will & Grace, Monk, Law & Order: Special Victims ...
Dan Dworkin - Episode 898
March 06, 2022 20:19 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBSteve Cooper talks with TV writer/producer Dan Dworkin. Dan has co-created various TV series such as Matador, The Crossing, Scream: The TV Series and The Lost Symbol. His writing credits include Criminal Minds, Cold Case, American Horror Story, Star Trek: Discovery, Scorpion, Revenge, Dragnet and Surface.
Jon King - Episode 897
February 26, 2022 21:26 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBSteve Cooper talks with musician Jon King. Jon is best known as the singer-songwriter and founding member of the Leeds-based post-punk band Gang of Four. Gang of Four was one of the most influential and groundbreaking bands to rise from the British punk scene in the late '70s. Their 1979 LP, Entertainment, received triumphant reviews from critics and was a surprise hit in the U.K., while their third album, 1982's Songs of the Free gave them a commercial breakthrough in the United States as t...
Pat MacDonald - Episode 896
February 21, 2022 20:01 - 1 hour - 202 MBSteve Cooper talks with musician Pat MacDonald. He is best known for being the singer, guitarist, and main songwriter for Timbuk 3, nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1987. They scored a huge hit with The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades. They briefly appeared in the 1988 Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan movie D.O.A. His songwriting credits include collaborations Cher, Keith Urban, Stewart Copeland and Peter Frampton. Songs he has written or co-written have been recorded by ...
Darryl (DMC) McDaniels - Episode 895
February 17, 2022 00:41 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBSteve Cooper talks with rapper Darryl McDaniels. Darryl is a legendary music icon who first impacted the world over 35 years ago. From the first rap group to grace the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine to the first to appear on MTV, Run-DMC changed music, culture, fashion, language and made American history. It would be hard to overstate his influence on popular culture. Forty million record sales and ½ billion song streams later, and twenty years since the untimely death of his bandmate Jam ...
Denis O’Hare - Episode 894
February 06, 2022 20:16 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Denis O'Hare. Denis is known for his award-winning performances in the plays Take Me Out and Sweet Charity as well as portraying vampire king Russell Edgington on HBO's fantasy series True Blood. He is also known for his supporting roles in such films as Charlie Wilson's War, Milk, Changeling, Dallas Buyers Club, Garden State, Michael Clayton and The Proposal. In 2011, he starred as Larry Harvey in the first season of the FX anthology series American Horror Stor...
Mike Reno - Episode 893
January 31, 2022 21:10 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBSteve Cooper talks with musician Mike Reno. Mike is best known for being the lead singer for the rock band Loverboy. Loverboy has four multi-platinum albums, including the four-million-selling Get Lucky, and a trio of double-platinum releases in their self-titled 1980 debut, 1983’s Keep It Up and 1985’s "Lovin’ Every Minute of It." Their string of hits includes, in addition to the arena-rock anthem “Working for the Weekend,” such staples as “Lovin’ Every Minute of It,” “This Could Be the Nig...
Dale Bozzio - CooperTalk episode 892
January 26, 2022 00:50 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBSteve Cooper talks with musician Dale Bozzio. Dale is best known for being the lead singer of the band Missing Persons. Missing Persons were an MTV favorite and their 1982 album Spring Session M went gold and included the hits Destination Unknown, Words, Windows and Walking in L.A. They broke up in 1986 but Dale has reformed the band on and off over the last 40 years.
Spencer Garrett - Episode 891
January 21, 2022 02:22 - 56 minutes - 52 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Spencer Garrett. Spencer recently has been seen in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood, Chicago P.D., Bombshell, Dirty John, For All Mankind, Heel, Goliath and will be playing Chick Hearn in HBO's new series Winning Time. One of the busiest actors around he has been seen on Dice, Bosch, Room 104, Insecure, Timeless, Survivor's Remorse and played Bob Woodward in the movie The Front Runner. The year before that he was a regular on the shows Satisf...
Timothy Busfield - Episode 890
January 14, 2022 02:11 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor/director Timothy Busfield. As an actor, he has been a series regular or recurring character in 18 series including thirtysomething (four-time nominee and winner of the Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama), The West Wing, Entourage, Designated Survivor, Sleepy Hollow, Secrets and Lies, ED, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Trapper John, M.D., The Byrds of Paradise, Champs, Family Ties, Without a Trace, The Paper Chase, Reggie, All My Children, Almost Fam...
Dinah Manoff - Episode 889
January 08, 2022 21:15 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor/writer Dinah Manoff. Dinah is best known for her roles as Marty Maraschino in the movie Grease, Elane Lefkowitz on Soap, Carol Weston in NBC's Empty Nest and Libby Tucker in both the stage and film adaptations of I Ought to Be in Pictures for which she won a Tony Award. She has also written scripts for sitcoms and director 15 episodes of shows such as Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Sister, Sister and Empty Nest. She recently released her first novel titled The Real ...
Chip Z’Nuff - Episode 888
December 27, 2021 15:18 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBSteve Cooper talks with musician Chip Z'Nuff. Steve Cooper talks with musician Chip Z'Nuff. Chip is best known for being one of the founders of Enuff Z'Nuff a Chicago area band that is best known for their charting singles Fly High Michelle and New Thing. Enuff Z'Nuff has continually recorded and toured throughout their career of more than 30 years, releasing 16 studio albums and a total of 24 CDs to date. They have appeared on MTV, The Jenny Jone's Show, Mancow's Morning Madhouse and multip...
Gina Schock - Episode 887
December 13, 2021 17:58 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBSteve Cooper talks with musician Gina Schock. Gina is the drummer for The Go-Go's who were just inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The Go-Go's debut album Beauty and the Beat went to number one on the charts and had two top 20 hits with Our Lips Our Sealed and We Got the Beat. Their next two albums, Vacation and Talk Show were big sellers as were the singles from them, Vacation, Head Over Heels and Turn to You. They released one more album, God Bless the Go-Go's, and have reunited t...
Scott Rosenberg - Episode 886
December 06, 2021 01:19 - 1 hour - 59 MBSteve Cooper talks with writer/producer Scott Rosenberg. Scott has written numerous screenplays including Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, Beautiful Girls, Con Air, Kangaroo Jack, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Venom and Jumanji: The Next Level. He has also created, written or been executive producer on various TV productions such as Tales from the Crypt, Going to California, Life on Mars, Happy Town, Zoo and High Fidelity.
Chan Kinchla - Episode 885
November 30, 2021 22:11 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBSteve Cooper talks with Chan Kinchla. Chan is best known for being the lead guitarist of Blues Traveler. While Blues Traveler is best known among fans for their improvisational live shows, the general public is most familiar with the group from their top 40 singles Run-Around, Hook, and But Anyway. They gained mainstream popularity after their fourth studio album, four, which was released in 1994 and have released 14 studio albums and are one of David Letterman's favorite bands.
William Sadler - Episode 884
November 26, 2021 20:56 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor William Sadler. William is best known for his roles as Heywood in The Shawshank Redemption, the Grim Reaper in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey and Bill & Ted Face the Music, Jack McGarrett in Hawaii Five-0 and Jim Valenti in Roswell. He has also been seen in countless TV shows and movies including Die Hard 2, Iron Man 3, The Blacklist, Blue Bloods, Hunters, The Grudge, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Bull, Power, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Madam Secretary, The Flash,...
Jerry Casale - Episode 883
November 19, 2021 18:39 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MBSteve Cooper talks with musician/director Jerry Casale. Jerry's music career spans more than 40 years. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as co-founder, co-lead vocalist, and bass player of the band Devo, which released a Top 20 hit in 1980 with the single Whip It. He is the main lyricist and one of the main composers of Devo's music and directed most of Devo's music videos. He also has a solo project under the name of Jihad Jerry & the Evildoers, has directed music videos by The Cars, ...
John Corabi - Episode 882
November 10, 2021 20:56 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBSteve Cooper talks with musician John Corabi. John is best known as replacing Vince Neil in Motley Crue from 1992-96 and with them did lead vocals and helped write their self-titled follow up to the album Dr. Feelgood and their EP Qaternary. He has earned a reputation as a go-to frontman and collaborator, amassing a solid résumé as a singer and guitarist with acts like The Eric Singer Project (ESP), Union, Ratt and The Dead Daisies. He currently tours as a solo act and recently released the ...
Dedee Pfeiffer - Episode 881
November 05, 2021 14:51 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Dedee Pfeiffer. Dedee currently co-stars in the ABC hit series Big Sky. She is also known for playing Cybill's daughter, Rachel, on the sitcom Cybill, Sheri on the sitcom For Your Love, and her film appearances as Val in The Allnighter and Sheila in Falling Down. Some of her other credits include appearances in Friends, Wings, Ellen, ER, Burn Notice, CSI: NY and Seinfeld.
Carmine Appice - Episode 880
November 01, 2021 20:25 - 57 minutes - 53 MBSteve Cooper talks with drummer Carmine Appice. Carmine is a legendary drummer who first came to prominence with the late 1960s band Vanilla Fudge. After 5 albums he left to join the popular band Cactus and then joined the power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice. He later joined Rod Stewart's backing band and co-wrote the hits Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? and Young Turks. Through the years he has recorded albums with artists such as KGB, Paul Stanley, Ted Nugent, King Kobra, Blue Murder, Sly Stone, Pink F...
Midge Ure - Episode 879
October 22, 2021 14:43 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBSteve Cooper talks with musician Midge Ure. Midge is best known for being the front man for Ultravox. He was in the band from 1979–1987, and then again from 2008–2013. During his first stint they released hit singles such as Vienna, Dancing with Tears in My Eyes and Reap the Wild Wind and also co-wrote the Band Aid hit Do They Know It's Christmas with Bob Geldof. In his early career he played with Rich Kids, Visage and Thin Lizzy. As a solo artist he has recorded nine albums with his debut,...
Yul Vazquez - Episode 878
October 17, 2021 18:09 - 1 hour - 61 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Yul Vazquez. Yul is best known for his roles as Yunis Sablo in The Outsider, Victor Lazaro in Magic City, John Reyes in Russian Doll and John Gavin in Narcos: Mexico. He has been seen on such TV shows as Seinfeld, SEAL Team, Midnight Texas, I Am the Night, Divorce, Madam Secretary, Bloodline, Louie, Treme and many more. He has appeared in many movies including Runaway Bride, The Cobbler, O.G., Gringo, Crown Heights, The Infiltrator, Captain Phillips, American Ga...
Steve Kilbey - Episode 877
October 11, 2021 19:49 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBSteve Cooper talks with musician Steve Kilbey. Steve is best known for being the singer-songwriter and bass guitarist for the rock band The Church. The Church are an Australian alternative rock band formed in Sydney in 1980. Initially associated with new wave, neo-psychedelia, and indie rock, their music later came to feature slower tempos and surreal soundscapes reminiscent of dream pop and post-rock. They have recorded 17 studio albums and are best known for the hit single Under the Milky ...
Amanda Wyss - CooperTalk 876
October 04, 2021 17:45 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Amanda Wyss. Amanda was discovered by an agent as a teen while starring in the play, The Bad Seed at a local LA theatre and then went on to work in many commercials and landed her first television role, recurring on Universal's When the Whistle Blows as Dolph Sweet's daughter. Some of her film performances are in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Better Off Dead, Silverado, Hunter's Moon, Badland, Triggered, The Sandman, The Hatred and the...
Pete Byrne - Episode 875
September 27, 2021 12:52 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBSteve Cooper talks with musician Pete Byrne. Pete is best known as the lead singer for the pop/new wave duo Naked Eyes. Naked Eyes rose to prominence in the early 1980s. The band had four US top 40 singles. The group's first hit, Always Something There to Remind Me was a cover of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David standard. The band had subsequent hits with more of their own compositions, Promises, Promises, When the Lights Go Out and (What) In the Name of Love. On June 8, 2021, Naked Eyes release...
Brad Gillis - Episode 874
September 20, 2021 19:23 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBSteve Cooper talks with musician Brad Gillis. Brad is a guitarist most famous for playing with the band Night Ranger. Since forming in 1979, him and drummer Kelly Keagy are the only members to have appeared in every incarnation of the band and all studio releases. Having sold over 17 Million albums worldwide, performed across more than 4000 stages, and captivated a radio audience that exceeds 1 Billion, Night Ranger has both epitomized and transcended the arena rock sound and style well beyo...
C. Thomas Howell - Episode 873
September 10, 2021 21:04 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor/musician C. Thomas Howell. Tommy is best known for his roles in the movies E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Outsiders, Red Dawn, Secret Admirer, The Hitcher, Soul Man and many others. He has also been recurring in numerous TV series such as Southland, Grimm, Criminal Minds, The Walking Dead, SEAL Team, Bosch, Animal Kingdom, The Blacklist, The Punisher and Ray Donovan. He recently took up guitar and is doing a series of storytelling with music concerts.
Don McManus - Episode 872
September 06, 2021 15:35 - 1 hour - 56 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Don McManus. Don has been a working actor for over 30 years and has starred, guest starred or been recurring in various television shows and films. His feature credits include: The Starling, Vice, Under the Silver Lake, Grand Piano, Grandma, The Maze Runner, Lucky Bastard, For A Good Time Call, Magnolia, The Shawshank Redemption, Under the Tuscan Sun, National Treasure, Hannibal, Air Force One. His TV credits include: Sorry For Your Loss, Mom, Justified, 24, Nor...
Eddie Trunk - Episode 871
September 02, 2021 00:34 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBSteve Cooper talks with American music historian/radio personality/talk show host/author Eddie Trunk. Eddie is best known as the host of several hard rock and heavy metal-themed radio and television shows. His resume includes being a disc jockey at WDHA, WNEW, Q104.3 and SiriusXM and has also hosted TV shows such as VH1 Classic's That Metal Show and AXS's Trunkfest with Eddie Trunk. He also has written the book Eddie Trunk's Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal and the follow up Volume II.
Richard Blade - Episode 870
August 27, 2021 20:22 - 1 hour - 59.2 MBSteve Cooper talks with radio, television, and film personality Richard Blade. Richard was a disk jockey at KROQ in Los Angeles from 1982 to 2000 and since 2004 he has had his own nationwide daily show on Sirius Satellite radio and can be heard every afternoon from 12pm - 6pm (PST) on SiriusXM 33, 1st Wave. In 2017 he wrote his autobiography World In My Eyes which became a nationwide best seller. Since then, he has written three more books, all novels, which have each topped Amazon's sales c...
Paul Carrack - Episode 869
August 22, 2021 20:48 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBSteve Cooper talks with musician Paul Carrack. Paul is known as The Man with the Golden Voice. He was lead singer of the English group Ace who had a top hit with How Long, sang Squeeze's popular tune Tempted, was lead vocalist for Mike + The Mechanics from 1985-2004, was a member of Roxy Music and Ringo Starr & His All-Star Band and has written many songs for various artists. He is also a very accomplished solo artist who has recorded 18 albums and had a top 10 single with Don't Shed a Tear.
David Duchovny - Episode 868
August 16, 2021 16:04 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor/musician/writer David Duchovny. David is best known for his Golden Globe winning roles as Fox Mulder in The X Files and Hank Moody in Californication. He has been seen in other movies or TV shows such as Zoolander, Aquarius, Sex and the City, Twin Peaks, The Larry Sanders Show and many more. He has also recorded 3 albums and written 4 novels.
Wendy Liebman - Episode 867
August 08, 2021 23:07 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBSteve Cooper talks with comic Wendy Liebman. Wendy returns to CooperTalk for the sixth time. She has been doing stand-up for over 25 years and has been a regular on the Late Show with David Letterman and has appeared on the Tonight Show with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and Jimmy Kimmel Live! In addition she was the first comedian to appear on the Rosie O'Donnell Show and has done comedy specials for HBO, Comedy Central and Showtime. She has also pe...
Glenn Tilbrook - Episode 866
August 02, 2021 19:42 - 43 minutes - 40 MBSteve Cooper talks with musician Glenn Tilbrook. Glenn is best known as the lead singer and one of the founding members of Squeeze. He also writes all the music while fellow band member Chris Difford writes the lyrics. Squeeze is an English rock band that formed in the mid 70’s and are known for many hits including Tempted, Pulling Mussels (from the Shell), Black Coffee in Bed and Hourglass. They have recorded 16 studio albums throughout their career and still play to sold out crowds across ...
Erik Palladino - Episode 865
July 26, 2021 00:18 - 1 hour - 58 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Erik Palladino. Erik known for his portrayal of Dr. Dave Malucci in the NBC medical drama ER. He is also known for his recurring roles as Lt. Michael Daghlian in Joan of Arcadia, Vostanik Sabatino in NCIS: Los Angeles, Kevin Miller on Suits and Frank in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Other TV and movie credits include Watchman, The Fix, Six, Designated Survivor, Blue Bloods, Mischief Night, Castle, Burn Notice, Criminal Minds, u-571 and Over There.
Judy Gold - Episode 864
July 20, 2021 18:58 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBSteve Cooper talks with comic/actor/writer Judy Gold. Judy has had stand-up specials on HBO, Comedy Central and LOGO. She has written and starred in two critically acclaimed, Off-Broadway hit shows: The Judy Show - My Life as a Sitcom 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother. She received rave reviews as Gremio in The Public Theater’s all female production of The Taming of The Shrew for Shakespeare in the Park. She also co-starred in Off-Broadway’s Clinton! The Musical, and Disaster! The Musical. Sh...
Saverio Guerra - Episode 863
July 11, 2021 23:35 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Saverio Guerra. Saverio is best know for his role as Mocha Joe on Curb Your Enthusiasm and Bob on the series Becker. Throughout his career he has been seen in many movies and TV shows including EZ Streets, Summer of Sam, Blue Streak, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Monk, My Name is Earl, Weeds, The Last O.G, Billions and LAw & Order: SVU.
John Kapelos - Episode 862
July 05, 2021 23:52 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor John Kapelos. John co-starred in a several of John Hughes’ generation-defining Brat Pack films, notably The Breakfast Club (as Carl the Janitor), 16 Candles and Weird Science. He has made his mark in more than 60 features films including Legally Blonde and Roxanne. On television he has proven his diversity in such series as Amazon's Transparent and received critical acclaim on the FX series Justified. Other TV work includes guest and recurring roles in hits such...
Jason Kravits - Episode 861
June 28, 2021 14:16 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Jason Kravits. Jason is best known for playing District Attorney Richard Bay in the Emmy Award-winning drama series The Practice from 1999 to 2001. He got his start playing Lolo Knopke on the short-lived 1982 PBS series Powerhouse. He can be seen in episodes Friends, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Everybody Loves Raymond, Yes Dear, Gilmore Girls, Blue Bloods, Law & Order, Young Sheldon, The Big Bang Theory, B Positive, Halston and many more shows.
Chris Frantz - Episode 860
June 19, 2021 15:29 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBSteve Cooper talks with musician Chris Frantz. Chris is the drummer for both Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, both of which he co-founded with wife and Talking Heads bassist Tina Weymouth. In 2002, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Talking Heads.
Dennis DeYoung - Episode 859
June 14, 2021 17:13 - 1 hour - 65.1 MBSteve Cooper talks with musician Dennis DeYoung. Dennis is best known as a founding member of the rock band Styx and as primary lead vocalist and keyboardist, during a tenure that lasted from 1970 until June 1999. He has been credited as the writer of more Styx songs than any other Styx member. He was also the band's most successful writer, penning 7 of the band's 8 Billboard top 10 singles (Babe, Mr. Roboto, Show Me the Way, The Best of Times, Lady, Come Sail Away and Don't Let it End). As ...
Dave Wakeling - Episode 858
June 07, 2021 20:29 - 1 hour - 78.3 MBSteve Cooper talks with musician Dave Wakeling. Dave is best known for being the front man for The English Beat and General Public. The English Beat released three studio albums in the early 1980s: I Just Can't Stop it, Wha'ppen? and Special Beat Service. They had a string of singles, including Mirror in the Bathroom, Save It for Later, I Confess, Too Nice to Talk To, Can't Get Used to Losing You, Hands Off...She's Mine and All Out to Get You. Dave then started General Public. Their first al...
Phil Manzanera - Episode 857
May 31, 2021 18:26 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MBSteve Cooper talks with musician Phil Manzanera. Phil is best known for being the lead guitarist for Rock & Roll HOF members Roxy Music (who he joined in 1972). Roxy’s rise was meteoric, with the band being hailed as the stylistic influence of the early 1970’s. During the next 12 years, until 1983 when the band members went on a ‘long break’, Roxy Music released a series of international best selling albums, achieving ten UK top ten albums and touring extensively throughout the world. As a w...
Jay Jay French - Episode 856
May 26, 2021 12:54 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBSteve Cooper talks with musician Jay Jay French. Jay Jay is best-known for being the founding member and lead guitarist for Twisted Sister. Twisted Sister are best-known for the hit songs We're Not Gonna Take It and I Wanna Rock. They have played over 9,000 shows in 34 countries and sold more than 20 million albums. He also is a columnist, author and motivational speaker who oversees licensing and intellectual property rights for the Twisted Sister brand and recently started a podcast called...
Lyrics Born - Episode 855
May 22, 2021 21:54 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBSteve Cooper talks with rapper Lyrics Born. From his Quannum Projects debut with Latyrx (1997’s The Album), to 2003’s seminal solo album Later That Day, he has consistently pushed the boundaries of his craft. His latest project, Quite A Life, is like the exclamation point on his milestone year. As the first Asian-American to release a greatest hits compilation, he’s pumped out multiple smash singles throughout his career. From Callin’ Out and I Like It, I Love It to I Changed My Mind and Cou...
Gary Numan - Episode 854
May 17, 2021 21:23 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBSteve Cooper talks with musician Gary Numan. Gary is most widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits Are ‘Friends’ Electric? (when in Tubeway Army) and Cars. He achieved his peak of mainstream popularity in the late 70s and early 80s but maintains a loyal cult following. His signature sound consists of heavy synthesizer hooks fed through guitar effects pedals, is considered a pioneer of commercial electronic music. He has sold over 10 million records in his career and just released his 21s...