I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found... →
Otis Blackwell
I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the... →
I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV.
Nina Blackwood
The heyday of video music was the mid 80's.
Absolute 80's is three hours of mainstream 80's music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is more punk stuff from the... →
What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port... →
Ruben Blades
And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.
Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban... →
Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.
Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.