By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio
Just released by Esoteric Recordings in England is a mammoth seven disc box set (six CDs and one DVD), bringing together Andrew Gold’s releases on the Asylum records label and adding a host of unreleased tracks, live recordings, promotional videos and BBC-TV performances.
This pretty-much-everything-under-one-roof dream package is a good excuse to feature my first live, on-air interview with Andrew, which took place on November 1, 1997, just prior to the release of Greetings from Planet Love, his loving tribute to all things Beatles- and 1960s-esque billed under the group name The Fraternal Order of the All.
Andrew spent 90 minutes with me, as his kids romped around the kitchen table, talking about Greetings from Planet Love and playing and commenting on tracks from across his magnificent catalog. He was a lively guest with a great sense of humor, quipping and laughing a lot the whole way through. It was Andrew’s first of many appearance on the old, weekly Pure Pop Radio show.
During the show, we played 11 songs from Andrew’s catalog, including several from Greetings from Planet Love, his first recordings with Graham Gouldman under the group name Common Knowledge, which led to the duo Wax (Wax UK in America), and much more. Because I wanted to present this interview today, there wasn’t enough time to list the songs played; I will add that list to this post soon, along with links to listen to said tracks.
Enjoy my first, live interview with the great Andrew Gold, from the November 1, 1997 edition of Pure Pop Radio, broadcast on WEBR-FM in Fairfax, Virginia. I’m very proud of it. I hope you love it like I do.
Listen to my first live interview with Andrew Gold from November 1, 1997 by clicking the play button on the following player, or click on the Pure Pop Radio button to the left to download (then right click and choose “Save audio as” to save the file to your computer). (This interview is presented in scoped format; the songs have been removed due to copyright concerns.)
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