By BOB ANDELMAN (Originally published August 25, 1984) CLEARWATER - There were no casualties, but the battle was fierce. Arms flailed, legs kicked, and tempers flared, but it was all in good fun as the Temptations and Four Tops squared off musically on the stage at Ruth Eckerd Hall on Thursday night. The promoters nicknamed... Continue Reading →
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Mark Malkoff by clicking on the video player above! I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that Mark Malkoff is probably the most and best prepared podcast host in the world. If you’ve ever listened to his show, “The Carson Podcast,” you know... Continue Reading →
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Cristina Alger by clicking on the video player above! (UPDATE, JULY 27, 2019: Amazon Prime Video announced it acquired rights to produce a TV series based on Cristina Alger's novel, The Banker's Wife. Producers of the show previously were behind Showtime's long-running series, "Homeland." Read more... Continue Reading →
(NOTE: The first interview below was done in advance of Don McLean's 1983 appearance at the old London Victory Club in downtown Tampa; the next two were written from a second, single phone interview in 1986. My enduring memory of the Tampa show was taking a date to see the show and being invited... Continue Reading →
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Wayne Kramer by clicking on the video player above! Everybody knows at least one MC5 song – and that would be “Kick Out the Jams,” mofo. Know more? Points to you, my friend. In 1969, the year when “Kick Out the Jams” was released, there was... Continue Reading →
By Bob Andelman (Originally published October 4,1986) Michael Franks was in Columbus, Ohio when he heard that Ringo Starr had just recorded one of his tunes, “Monkey See – Monkey Do.” “I was on the road when the record came out,” the singer-songwriter recalls. “Somebody said, ‘One of your songs is on this Ringo... Continue Reading →
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Elizabeth Fournier by clicking on the video player above! Everybody needs a niche and Elizabeth Fournier has one. She’s America’s friendly, neighborhood mortician. She also has a color. Green. As in, Elizabeth Fournier is America’s green mortician, writing books and spreading the word that funerals and... Continue Reading →
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Jeff Klinkenberg by clicking on the video player above! Every major daily newspaper has a few journalists whose work consistently rises above all others. And there is an even smaller group of these top-notch reporters whose legends are beyond reproach and who are held in the... Continue Reading →
By Bob Andelman Originally published November 21, 1986) (NOTE: I was so happy to finally uncover this profile of singer Donna Allen. Not only did I enjoy her singing and performing, but I had the biggest, hugest crush on her. I could barely talk to her -- and this was at least the second,... Continue Reading →
By Bob Andelman (Originally published August 22, 1986) This year’s Belinda Carlisle model looks like a model. Men are ga-ga over the slimmed down, radiant ex-Go-Go. Women want to know who does her hair. And fans are mad about her debut single as a solo act, “Mad About You.” It’s No. 3 in the... Continue Reading →
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