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Nik Kershaw exploded onto the UK pop scene in 1984 as a solo artist. A string of global hit singles – including ‘Wouldn’t it Be Good’, ‘The Riddle’ and his biggest hit, ‘I Won’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me’ – helped to propel him to 62 weeks on the UK Singles Chart through 1984 and 1985 – beating every other solo artist, together with performing at Live Aid. After stepping out of the limelight to co...

Brian Thompson played the villainous Night Slasher in the 1986 film Cobra. His first named role was on Werewolf, a horror series that ran during Fox's inaugural broadcasting year of 1987–1988. Thompson has played several characters in the Star Trek franchise—the most notable being the Klingon Lieutenant Klag in which he informed Riker that “Gagh is always best when served live”, the Alien Bounty H...

Joe Genaro is a musician and songwriter, best known for the punk rock group The Dead Milkmen. The Dead Milkmen formed in 1983, evolving out of a home-recording project with a mythological back story that Genaro had begun in 1979. The members of the group regularly employed pseudonyms, and Genaro most frequently called himself "Joe Jack Talcum" (stemming from the character of Jack Talcum that Genar...

Vincent Pastore is best known for his portrayal of Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on the HBO series The Sopranos. Other credits include Goodfellas, State of Grace, Awakenings, Carlito's Way, The Jerky Boys, Law & Order, Bull, Gotti, The Practice, Pair of Kings, Hawaii Five-0, Wu-Tang: An American Saga and Gravesend. He also has been on Broadway in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway and has dir...

Mike Tramp is best known as the lead singer from the band White Lion. Mainly active in the 1980s and early 1990s, they released their debut album Fight to Survive in 1985. The band achieved success with their No. 8 hit Wait and No. 3 hit When the Children Cry from their second album, the double platinum selling Pride. The band continued their success with their third album, Big Game which achieved...

Ryan O'Nan is best known for his roles as Donno on the ABC hit Big Sky and as King George USA's Queen of the South. (He also is a producer for both.) Other TV credits include recurring roles in such shows as Ray Donovan, Fargo, Swimming with Sharks and Blackout and guest star spots on Animal Kingdom, The Last Tycoon, Proof, Person of Interest, The Blacklist and Wu-Tang: An American Saga. (Which he...

Stephen Tobolowsky is an actor best known for film roles such as insurance agent Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day, and amnesiac Sammy Jankis in Memento, as well as such television characters as Commissioner Hugo Jarry (Deadwood), Bob Bishop (Heroes), Sandy Ryerson (Glee), Stu Beggs (Californication and White Famous), "Action" Jack Barker (Silicon Valley), Dr. Leslie Berkowitz (One Day at a Time), and...

Sananda Maitreya, who started his career with the stage name Terence Trent D'Arby, is an American singer and songwriter who came to fame with his debut studio album, "Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby". That album produced the hits Sign Your Name, Dance Little Sister and the number one Wishing Well. The album earned a Grammy and he appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone. S...

James Eckhouse has had a varied and distinguished career as an actor and director in film, television, and theater for over 35 years. He is best known for his role as Jim Walsh on Beverly Hills 90210. He has had guest starring roles on many TV series including Chicago Med, The Rookie, Station 19, The Affair, Code Black, NCIS, Major Crimes, Castle, The Good Wife, Southland, Criminal Minds, West Win...

Adam Ferrara is an Actor, Comedian who Entertainment Weekly dubbed “Hilarious,” and co-hosted the critically acclaimed BBC sensation, Top Gear US, for six seasons. Some of his other credits include playing Chief Needles Nelson on the Emmy nominated FX drama Rescue Me, co-starred with Emmy Award winner Edie Falco on Showtime’s hit series Nurse Jackie and starring alongside Kevin James in the hit mo...

Jill Whelan is best known for her role as Vickie Stubing, the daughter of Captain Stubing, in the first nine seasons of the popular television series The Love Boat and for playing Lisa Davis, the young heart patient, in the iconic movie, Airplane. Through her career she has made numerous other appearances in shows such as Fantasy Island, Vegas, Trapper John M.D., Matt Houston and Battle of the Net...

Actor Matthew Laurance is best known for starring as Ben Coleman in the Fox sitcom Duet and for his recurring role as Mel Silver on Beverly Hills, 90210. Other roles include playing Sal Amato is Eddie and the Cruisers and Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives, and Ron Dellasandro in St. Elmo's Fire. He was also a regular on Saturday Night Live for one season. He currently is an on-air sports radi...

Ed Marinaro was a three-time All American at Cornell University and in 1971 was the runner-up for the Heisman Trophy and went on to play in the NFL for the Vikings and Jets. After he retired, he pursued acting. He landed a role in Laverne & Shirley and then went on to play Officer Joe Coffey for 6 seasons on Hill Street Blues. Other credits include Sisters, Dynasty, Falcon Crest, Amy Fisher: My St...

Al Stewart came to stardom as part of the legendary British folk revival in the sixties and seventies and developed the combination of folk-rock songs with delicately woven tales of the great characters and events from history. He has 19 studio albums between “Bedsitter Images” in 1967 and “Sparks of Ancient Light” in 2008, plus the live album "Uncorked" with Dave Nachmanoff in 2009. He is perhaps...

Vonda Shepard talks with Steve Cooper. Vonda is best known for her work on Ally McBeal. She was the “Greek Chorus” for Ally’s emotions and thoughts. There were often cover tunes from the 50’s, 60’s and earlier back, but David E. Kelley (the show's creator) would always interweave her original songs throughout the five years of Ally McBeal. She sold over twelve million albums, has won two Golden Gl...

John Cafferty talks with Steve Cooper. John is best known for his work with John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band who began their career in 1972 and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s with the Eddie & The Cruisers - Motion Picture Soundtrack.  The hit single On the Dark Side held the Number-One position on the Billboard Rock charts and the MTV video charts for five consecutive weeks.  The al...

Kenny Wayne Shepherd is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.  He has released several studio albums and experienced significant commercial success as a blues artist.   From 1995 on, he took seven singles into the Top 10, and holds the record for the longest-running album on the Billboard Blues Charts with Trouble Is... In 1996, he began a longtime collaboration with vocalist Noah Hunt, w...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Scott Schwartz. Scott is best known for his role as Flick in A Christmas Story and A Christmas Story Christmas and for co-starring with Jackie Gleason and Richard Pryor in The Toy. He's also in appeared in TV shows and movies such as Kidco, A Time to Live, Raiders of the Living Dead, 21 Jump Street and The Comeback Kids.

Rita Rudner is a house-filling favorite in Las Vegas since she opened as one of the hottest tickets in town in June 2000. Over the course of a multi-year run she sold almost two million tickets, grossed over a hundred million dollars and become the longest-running solo female comedy show in the history of Las Vegas. She was named Las Vegas’s Comedian of The Year nine years in a row and in 2006 rec...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Deirdre Lovejoy. Deirdre is best known for her roles as Rhonda Pearlman on HBO's iconic series The Wire and Cynthia Panabaker on The Blacklist. Some of her other TV and film credits include Law & Order: SVU, Big Dogs, Raising Dion, Trollville, The Good Fight, NCIS: New Orleans, I Am Elizabeth Smart, Bull, Elementary, Shameless, American Gothic, Thirsty, Orange Is the...

Steve Cooper talks with author/model/television personality/actress Karen Duffy. Duff burst onto the scene as a VJ for MTV. She went on to have roles in films including Dumb and Dumber and Blank Check, working as a correspondent for the Michael Moore television shows TV Nation and The Awful Truth, and being a Revlon Charlie Girl as well as the face for Almay Cosmetics. In 1995 she was diagnosed wi...

Steve Cooper talks with Joe Lynn Turner. Joe is best known for being lead singer of Rainbow from 1980-1984 and for his solo career. With Rainbow his vocals powered the seminal Difficult to Cure in 1981, going gold in the UK, France, and Japan in addition to cracking the Top 50 of the Billboard Top 200 and Top 3 on the UK Top Albums Chart. A year later, he ignited their Straight Between the Eyes, w...

Steve Cooper talks with musician Klaus Flouride. Klaus is best known as the bassist and backing vocalist of punk rock legends Dead Kennedys. DK was one of the defining punk bands during their initial run. From 1978-1986 they recorded four albums and then broke up. In 2001 they reformed without original lead singer Jello Biafra and have continued to tour across the USA and Europe.

Steve Cooper talks with actor Rose Abdoo. Rose can currently be seen as Josefina on the HBO series Hacks and Selma on Hulu's Reboot. She is best known for her roles as Gypsy on The Gilmore Girls and as Senorita Rodriguez in That's So Raven. She has co-starred or been recurring on various series like Bless This Mess, Johnny Bago, Malcolm in the Middle, Bunheads, The Comeback, Shameless, Parenthood,...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Peter Jacobson. Peter is best known for his roles as Dr. Chris Taub on the Fox medical drama series House, proxy Alan Snyder is the USA science fiction drama Colony, Agent Wolfe on The Americans, Lee Drexler on Ray Donovan and Rabbi Jacob Kessner on Fear of the Walking Dead. Some other shows he has appeared on include WeCrashed, NCIS: Los Angeles, Bull, Law & Order: S...