Tom Petty’s Gloria
If you want to know what it was like to be alive in 1965, you must listen to the new Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ album “Live at the Fillmore…
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The Bob Lefsetz Podcast: Electronic Arts’ President of Music Steve Schnur
Talking to Electronic Arts’ President of Music Steve Schnur was the highlight of my week, and I’m not even a gamer! It made me excited about music. It made me…
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The Taylor Swift Snafu
Oh, come on. What next, everybody should be entitled to a new iPhone the day it comes out? Every automobile in the lineup at sticker price with no wait? Oh,…
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The Bob Lefsetz Podcast: Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt has a new book, “Feels Like Home,” about the Sonoran Borderlands where she grew up. We talk about her youth, Lucy’s El Adobe, meeting musicians and making records,…
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Everything Is A Cult
The casual listener is dead. The best analogy is television. Boomers will remember when you watched what was on, even changing channels was a big deal, you had to get…
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The Bob Lefsetz Podcast: AOL Co-Founder Steve Case
AOL cofounder Steve Case has a new book entitled “The Rise of the Rest” about the startup scene outside Silicon Valley, New York and Boston. We discuss startup culture, the…
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The R&RHOF Induction Ceremony
The highlight was John Mellencamp, but I’ll get to that. After some lighthearted remarks by John Sykes, an unrecognizable man hit the stage to over-testify about Duran Duran. Wearing a…
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The Bob Lefsetz Podcast: Author W. David Marx
David Marx is the author of the new book: “Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change.” He posits the dearth…
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The Jann Wenner Autobiography
“Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir” This is a terrible book. At the end, Wenner thanks all his insider readers, you know, the friends that helped him write the book.…
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The Bob Lefsetz Podcast: David Paich
David Paich is the primary songwriter, keyboardist and a vocalist in Toto. He also co-wrote Boz Scaggs’s “Lowdown” and “Lido Shuffle,” and worked on Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and too many…
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