Originally published for Retrospeak podcast By Mike Derrico Retrospeak Looks Back: The 1978 New York Yankees
Remembering Billy Joel’s First Garden Show
By Mike Derrico for the Retrospeak podcast, premiering in October 2018 Remembering Billy Joel’s First Garden Show
Joe Long of The Four Seasons
From May 2018…Mike Derrico’s interview with the legendary Joe Long on the eve of his induction into the New Jersey…
Truth and Myth of Judas Priest at the Garden and Beyond
By Mike Derrico What debaucherous creatures we were as metal heads in the 80s. One need not look past the…
MILEY CYRUS THROUGH THE EYES OF A ROCK SNOB
Photo by Damien Fry by Mike Derrico If there is one thing certain about Miley Cyrus as a recording artist,…
COMPLEX SIMPLICITY: REFLECTIONS ON TOM PETTY
by Mike Derrico October 3, 2017 I’m reading the headlines today, and they’re telling me we’ve lost Tom Petty. I…
ROLLING STONE: JUST ANOTHER SYMPTOM OF THE END
ROLLING STONE: JUST ANOTHER SYMPTOM OF THE END by Mike Derrico While this podcast often plays devil’s advocate and takes…
Why Rock Fans Really Hated Disco: A Conversation With Alice Echols
by Mike Derrico Alice Echols is professor of history and the Barbara Streisand Chair of Contemporary Gender Studies at USC,…
The Disco Years Pt. 1 (with Alice Echols)
Originally published on the Rock Under Fire podcast on July 22, 2017
77 Not 77
Remembering 1977 in our own warped fashion with my co-host Pat Ivanitski and a couple of girls I went to…
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