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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...

Steve Cooper talks with musician Marian Gold. Marian is best known as a founder member and lead singer of the band Alphaville. Alphaville achieved chart success with the singles Forever Young, Big in Japan, Sounds Like a Melody, The Jet Set and Dance with Me. They have released seven studio albums and have a symphonic one called Eternally Yours being released in the near future.

Steve Cooper talks with musician Five for Fighting (John Ondrasik). John is best known for his first single Superman (It's Not Easy). He is a platinum selling and Grammy nominated songwriter and has released six studio LPs, including the platinum certified America Town and The Battle for Everything and the top-10 charting Two Lights, along with an EP and live albums. He has penned major hits, incl...

Steve Cooper talks with QB/writer/actor Mike Boryla. Steve interviewed Mike when he was only 12 years old (for a school project) and Mike was a Pro Bowl QB for the Philadelphia Eagles. Mike also was with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and was first team All-Pac-8 his senior year at Stanford. After he retired, he became a lawyer and in 2014 he made his acting debut in a one-man autobiographic theatrical...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Patrick Fabian. Patrick is best known for his role as Howard Hamlin on Better Call Saul. His recurring roles include shows such as Black Monday, Carol's Second Act, Special, Code Black, Valentine, Big Love, Veronica Mars, Providence, Joan of Arcadia, 24, The Newsroom and Saved by the Bell: The College Years. He has also guest starred in countless series like Lucifer,...

Steve Cooper talks with musician Simon Kirke. Simon is best known for being the drummer for the band Bad Company. Bad Company enjoyed great success throughout the 1970s. Their first three albums, Bad Company, Straight Shooter and Run with the Pack, reached the top five in the album charts in both the UK and the US. Many of their singles and songs, such as Bad Company, Can't Get Enough, Good Lovin'...

Steve Cooper talks with drummer Steve Smith. Steve is best known for being the drummer for Journey across three tenures. With Journey, he toured around the world and recorded numerous successful albums including the immensely popular Escape (Columbia 1981) and Frontiers (Columbia 1983), both of which garnered the band many Top 40 hits and worldwide sales of over 80 million albums. In 1985 Smith le...

Steve Cooper talks with actor/writer Dave Thomas. Dave is probably best known for being part of the duo the McKenzie Brothers from the sketch show SCTV that launched John Candy, Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy and Rick Moranis.  The duo became a pop culture phenomenon in both the United States and Canada. They starred in the movie Strange Brew and the characters were later revived for...