Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Richard Lynch by clicking on the video player above! Richard Lynch is a country singer/songwriter who ended 2018 with a surprise honor – a place in the Ohio Country Music Hall of Fame. His final concert of the year, on New Year’s Eve, was literally interrupted... Continue Reading →
England’s Newest Wave: Talk Talk-ing with Mark Hollis! 1982 INTERVIEW
By Bob Andelman (NOTE -- It's always sad learning someone I once interviewed has passed. This time it was Mark Hollis, co-founder of the British New Wave band Talk Talk, who died after a short illness on February 25, 2019, at the age of 64. The story that follows, originally published on October 7,... Continue Reading →
Queen, album by album, with rock critic Martin Popoff! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Martin Popoff by clicking on the video player above! Over the last year, every time I saw a trailer for the film Bohemian Rhapsody, I had one thought: “Please don’t suck.” I hadn’t realized that, decades after Queen was a staple of my high school and... Continue Reading →
Dan Washburn: Country sung from the Canadian countryside! VIDEO INTERVIEW, SONGS
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Dan Washburn by clicking on the video player above! Dan Washburn is a country singer/songwriter with a great big ol’ voice and personality, a knack for catchphrases and an ever-present bit of whimsy in his delivery that brings a smile to my face whenever I hear... Continue Reading →
One More Sleep gets singer Amy Rose to Christmas! VIDEO INTERVIEW, SONGS
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Amy Rose and Marty Beecroft by clicking on the video player above! Amy Rose may be the greatest country music singer on the planet. I can’t prove that beyond a reasonable doubt, but I love the way she sings and right this minute, my opinion is... Continue Reading →
Rocker Bobby Friss plays for the kids again this Xmas! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Bobby Friss by clicking on the video player above! I last interviewed rock guitarist Bobby Friss in 1988. Something his father told him and he shared with me that day about being a professional has always stated with me: “On time, in tune, and with clean... Continue Reading →
Tempting? Talking with Otis Williams of The Temptations! INTERVIEW
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 →
Don McLean: “I’m OK … You’re So-So” 3 INTERVIEWS
(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 →
MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer kicks out the mofos! VIDEO INTERVIEW
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 →
Michael Franks almost froze those popsicle toes! INTERVIEW
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 →