May 28, 1968
For songwriters, Johnny represents the American man. He has been angry, cool, magic, a rebel and, of course, marching home.
The renown Texas songwriter has been at it for 40 years, with tales to tell about The Flatlanders and The Clash - that's Joe's Tex-Mex on "Should I Stay or Should I Go?"
With Bernie Taupin, Martin co-wrote the #1 hits "We Built This City" and "These Dreams." After writing the Pretty Woman song for Go West, he had his own hit with "In the House of Stone and Light."
A talk with Martin Popoff about his latest book on Rush and how he assessed the thousands of albums he reviewed.
A big list of musical marriages and family relations ranging from the simple to the truly dysfunctional.
It started with a bouncy MTV classic. Nirvana and MCR made them scary, then Gwen, Avril and Madonna put on the pom poms.
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