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Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott on dueting with Swift and Cyrus, going symphonic and surviving trends: ‘I had no issues with Kurt Cobain trying to kill the ’80s’ By

In 2008, Def Leppard. signed up to film a TV special with a then-rising country star named Taylor Swift — and they received two CMT Awards nominations. Fifteen years later,...

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May Pang on her ‘Lost Weekend’ with John Lennon that never really ended: ‘I don’t have closure’ By

May Pang details her relationship with John Lennon in this frank conversation. Pang, a then-assistant for Lennon and Yoko Ono, explains how Ono first approached her about engaging in an...

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Peter Gabriel on the future of AI: ‘We might as well just grab the algorithms and dance with them, rather than fight them’ By

Peter Gabriel joins me to explain how music can improve lives and debates the pros and cons of artificial intelligence. Reverberation: Do Everything Better With Music co-author Keith Blanchard, filmmaker...

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Grandmaster Flash on shooting ‘Wild Style’ in his kitchen, how Blondie’s ‘Rapture’ changed his life and why he once ‘looked at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a place that would never accept us’ By

The hip-hop pioneer also describes how he joined The Masked Singer and shares the origin story of Blondie’s “Rapture” and his thoughts on the 2023 Grammy Awards’ salute to rap....

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Debbie Gibson on how her late manager ‘Mama Diane’ guided her: ‘The brilliant thing about my mom is I don’t have a #MeToo story’ By

The teen idol chats with me about her last-minute The Masked Singer appearance, which was a tribute to her later mother, and why it’s important for her to take chances...

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KISS’s Paul Stanley on painting, facepainting and why he switched to ‘Bandit’ makeup for one month in 1974 By

KISS frontman Paul Stanley talks face-painting, oil-painting, and much, much more in this wide-ranging conversation....

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Roman rock gods Måneskin on their surprise success: ‘Giving a huge middle finger to all the things that have been said to us’ By

As winners of the over-the-top Eurovision Song Contest who hail from Italy, don’t always sing in English, and play supposedly unfashionable hard rock, Måneskin may not have seemed like obvious...

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Reba McEntire on finding love again with ‘The Hammer’ co-star Rex Linn: ‘I’m very grateful and thankful to God that he came into my life, at this period of my life’ By

The country superstar chats with me about her new Lifetime movie, working with Linn, turning down a role in Titanic, and thriving in the country music industry after  five decades....

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20 years after his ‘lowest point,’ Justin Guarini has no regrets: ‘As long as you stay in the game… it’ll always come back around’ By

The Season 1 American Idol runner-up joins me for a wide-ranging interview about life before and after Idol, his Dr. Pepper character Lil’ Sweet, and of course, From Justin to...

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Ozzy Osbourne talks health issues and his one hope for 2023: ‘I just wanna get back on that stage. I’ve gotta get back on that stage.’ By

The metal legend chats with me about his health and expresses his deepest desire: to perform onstage again....

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