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What does it take to maintain a career in music? We track down members of bands that we love and find out what their lives are like now.
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Tuesday Jun 19, 2018
Tuesday Jun 19, 2018
Wang Chung scored some of the biggest, and most ubiquitous, hits of the 80s with seminal songs like "Dance Hall Days," "Let's Go," and, the mother of all 80s hits, "Everybody Have Fun Tonight". Though Blender magazine may have ranked that hit the 3rd worst song of all time, it's never gone away and is as well known today as it was 30 years ago. Jack and I talk about how that song came to be and how it's affected his life. We also go deep on the rest of his career, his relationship to touring, his many side projects, his upcoming solo album, and his soundtrack work for To Live and Die in L.A. and the Breakfast Club. Hopefully, you'll learn some things you didn't know before!
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As somebody who loved Wang Chung back in the day, it frustrates me when I listen to SiriusXM or anything that specializes in 80’s music. As far as some of these stations are concerned, a band like Wang Chung didn’t have enough “ Everybody Have Fun Tonight “ moments to compete for airplay with the Madonna’s, Michael Jackson’s or Bruce Springsteen’s of the world, but they were too pop oriented to be on the same level as U2 or Howard Jones in that classic alternative realm, so they’ve gotten lost in the shuffle as if “ Tonight “ was the only song they ever made. It was a great interview and took me back to when I was in high school in the 80’s. People seem to forget now as they did then that there was more to music than just what Casey Kasem was counting down every weekend and even though it was iconic and served it’s purpose, bands like Wang Chung also proved that if you dug a little below the surface that there were great gems to be found if you were willing to look. That was a thoroughly enjoyable 90 minutes and I’m glad I found it.
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