Profiles With Maggie LePique

Maggie LePique speaks with Jann Wenner, whose memoir "Like a Rolling Stone" chronicles his life as the co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine. Rolling Stone founder, co-editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offers a "touchingly honest" and "wonderfully deep" memoir from the beating heart of classic rock and roll (Bruce Springsteen). Jann Wenner has been called by his peers...

Maggie LePique's Producer Jerry Ough speaks  with master double bassist Chuck Berghofer about his incredible music legacy. As a member of the Wrecking Crew, Chuck Berghofer helped change the sound of popular music. His big, warm bass sound has laid the foundation for artists from A to Z with recordings by Frank Sinatra, Glen Campbell, Christina Aguilera, Frank Zappa, The Beach Boys, Diana Kra...

TAKE ME TO THE RIVER NEW ORLEANS New Orleans Music: One of the World’s Most Unique and Important Cultural Jewels Take Me to the River New Orleans,” the second film, celebrates the rich musical history, the heritage, legacy, and influence of New Orleans and Louisiana. A true collaboration and melting pot of influences from around the World, that came together and formed one of the world’s most uniq...

Maggie LePique speaks with the marvelous and brilliant jazz pianist Mike Garson and they discuss the Live at Glastonbury 2000 recording. The Legendary Full Performance Released For The First Time (In 2018) Including Many Of Bowie's Greatest Hits And Never Before Seen Footage. This release documents Bowie's legendary Sunday night headline performance on June 25 2000 at the most famous fes...

Maggie LePique sits down wi th Dan Guerrero , an award-winning producer/director of diverse programming for network and cable television and of live arts and culture concert events at prestigious venues including the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for the LA Opera and multiple events at the Kennedy Center in DC. The eclectic artist also tours with his autobiographical solo play ¡Gaytino! Made in Americ...

Maggie and Robby sit down and revisit his 2021 Memoir, Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying, and Playing Guitar With The Doors Now Available In Paperback and play a few clips from the audiobook. In his tell-all, legendary Doors guitarist, Robby Krieger, one of Rolling Stone 's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time," opens up about his band's meteoric career, his own darkest mome...

Came the Lightening: Twenty Poems for George By Olivia Harrison Maggie goes in-depth about Olivia's reason for celebrating her husband, George Harrison, 20 years after his passing with a book of poems for him. Olivia also reads from her timeless and beautiful tribute to George.  'Here on the shore, twenty years later, my message in a bottle has reached dry land. Words about our life, his...

Maggie Speaks With Drummer, Producer Gregg Field About Ella At The Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook - Eight-time Grammy and 2018 Emmy winner (including Latin Grammy “Producer of the Year”) Gregg Field is one of the most musically diverse and highly sought-after producers, musicians and educators in music. World class musicians and singers — a veritable who’s who of music, including Micha...

An undisputed expert in the fine art of making hit music, JIM MESSINA’s legacy of musical genius spans five decades, three super groups, a vibrant solo career and scores of producing and engineering credits. While acting as producer/audio engineer for Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Buffalo Springfield , Messina ultimately joined the band as its bass player.  When “the Springfield” disbanded in 196...

Maggie LePique speaks with Sinatra Archivist, Charlie Pignone about the re-release of Watertown, a 1970 concept album, newly mixed and remastered from the original Sessions tapes. Upon Watertown ’s release, fans and critics alike simply weren’t prepared for such a radical stylistic departure from Sinatra. But the album has shown resilience: Despite the initial lukewarm response, in the decades sin...

Maggie LePique speaks with celebrating author, and educator Ashley Khan about the enduring legacy of George Harrison,  a British guitarist, singer, songwriter and film producer. As a member of the Beatles, he achieved international fame and renown. During his career, he developed as a songwriter in his own right and wrote many best selling songs. In addition to music, Harrison was interested in Hi...

Maggie LePique and special co-host Alan Minsky, former PD of KPFK Radio and currently the Executive Director of Progressive Democrats of America, discuss the crisis in Ukraine with President and CEO of Operation USA, Richard Walden.  Operation USA is a Los Angeles-based international disaster relief and development agency helping communities at home and abroad overcome the effects of disasters, di...

Maggie and extraordinary pianist and arranger,  Alan Broadbent discuss the 30th Anniversary of  Unforgettable… with Love, the  legendary singer and songwriter Natalie Cole’s biggest album to date. Since its initial release in 1991, it has sold over seven million copies and also won Cole seven GRAMMY© Awards. The album features Cole singing several songs her father Nat King Cole recorded, nearly 20...

L.A. WOMAN: 50TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION includes the original album newly remastered by The Doors’ longtime engineer and mixer Bruce Botnick, two bonus discs of unreleased studio outtakes, and the stereo mix of the original album on 180-gram virgin vinyl.  For this new collection, the original album has been expanded with more than two hours of unreleased recordings taken from the sessions for...

Su Oh Senior Vice President, Education, Exhibitions and Community Engagement As the Vice President of Education and Programs, Oh is responsible for increasing the Museum’s presence and influence in Southern California and developing new relationships with institutions and educational organizations in the region that engage the community in impactful lifelong learning relationships. At NHMLAC since...

Maggie speaks with Nick Gold (former head of World Circuit Records) about the genesis of the phenomenon of the Buena Vista Social and it's 25th Anniversary release.   ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ is both the name given to this extraordinary group of musicians and the album, recorded in just seven days in 1996 in Havana’s 1950s vintage EGREM studios. It was clear from the atmosphere of the record...

Maggie LePique with special guest, guitarist Robby Krieger (The Doors) celebrate the life & incredible legacy of PHIL CHEN, SESSION BASSIST FOR ROD STEWART, JEFF BECK AND MANY MORE, HAS DIED AGED 75 Dec 14 2021. Jamaican session bassist Phil Chen has died at the age of 75. The news was broken in a statement shared by his family on social media. Chen was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1946. He p...

Maggie discusses The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World with author Dave Zirin .  Riveting and inspiring first-person stories of how “taking a knee” triggered an awakening in sports, from the celebrated sportswriter. “ The Kaepernick Effect reveals that Colin Kaepernick’s story is bigger than one athlete. With profiles of courage that leap off the page, Zirin uncovers a whole nat...

Maggie LePique and Ashley Khan discuss this newly discovered live-recording of a performance of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme suite which has been called a revelation. Recorded at The Penthouse in Seattle on October 2, 1965, this recording transports the listener to a prime seat for piece of musical history. While not studio-quality audio, the power of the performance shines through. This ve...

Maggie & John discuss the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the release of the Jimi Hendrix Experience masterpiece Electric Ladyland, Experience Hendrix, L.L.C. and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment,  releasied the Deluxe Edition box set on November 9. Available as either a 3CD/1 Blu-ray set or a 6LP/1 Blu-ray set, both packages include the original doubl...

Master Bassist & Composer Stanley Clarke Discusses His Musical Career In Great Depth starting from the beginning in Philadelphia to his meeting and collaborating with maestro Chick Corea. Stanley discusses the journey of finding his own sound, Long before he became a four-time Grammy Award-winning recording artist, performer, composer, conductor, arranger, producer, a composer for recordings a...

Robby  Krieger discusses his first ever book, Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying, and Playing Guitar With the Doors with Maggie LePique with great candor, humour and detail.  In his tell-all, legendary Doors guitarist, Robby Krieger, one of Rolling Stone’ s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time,” opens up about his band’s meteoric career, his own darkest moments, and the most famous black eye in...

Maggie speaks with System Of A Down Singer Serj Tankian about the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict - Serj Tankian is a singer, poet, songwriter, visual artist, activist, and composer; Serj Tankian has always created music as an outlet to express his thoughts and feelings with a level of passion and consciousness that few in today’s world of music can rival. An Armenian born in Lebanon and re-rooted in...

Maggie speaks with Grammy-winning author Ashley Kahn about his latest book, "George Harrison on George Harrison"  a collection of interviews and TV appearances Harrison gave during his too-short life. Kahn’s collection “covers [Harrison’s] biographical sweep as fully as an autobiography would,” the preface asserts, and though one might argue with that, by book’s end, we believe Kahn’s ex...

Maggie speaks with Vince Wilburn, Jr.  the nephew of the late, great jazz icon Miles Davis and oversees the Miles Davis estate along with Erin and Cheryl Davis (the son and daughter of Miles).  Vince is, most notably, a highly accomplished drummer, producer, bandleader and radio host, who has both toured and recorded with Miles on recordings and live performances MILES DAVIS: MERCI MILES! LIVE AT...