'Wild Horses' is my favourite Stones song. It's so beautiful. I don't mind that it was written for Bianca.
The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.
They say the music you listen to in your formative years stays with you and leaves an impression for the rest of your life. For me, the things that I fell in love with happened in the '70s, when artists were nurtured by record companies and it wasn't about singles.
I am a disco king.
I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.
I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.
I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.
I started listening to old school R&B artists like Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross, and Donny Hathaway when I was in 6th grade.
I'm not one of those freaks who can't see anything past 1977.
I don't have a long history of hit singles of my own. I had a few, and I had a little hot streak in the '70s, but I've had a lot of success producing other people.
I've always enjoyed Cheap Trick.
'Europe '72' came out right around the time that I started going to see the Dead, and it had a huge impression on me.
The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s to glam rock to punk rock to electro music. So much happened in that 10-year span. There were so many musical revolutions. Some were happening at the same time. You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
The earliest music I remember hearing is Al Green's 'Let's Stay Together.' That was when my momma and my daddy were together, before they went their separate ways.
I get a lot of my inspiration from the Jackson 5 and Luther Vandross.
I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.
After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean?
I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not.
You can't listen to 'Frampton Comes Alive!' without smiling.
There was always music in my house when I was a kid. On Saturday mornings, my mother would clean house to 45s blaring out the songs of Neil Diamond, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Cat Stevens, Harry Chapin.
I'm not a big disco guy.
I honed in on a great time, the Motown era, the '60s and '70s. That type of music has always been a staple in my life.
The Doobie Brothers' 'What a Fool Believes' makes me want to move. And I still haven't gotten over the Macarena. Who has?
You had to read what I wrote if you lived in L.A. in 1975 and cared about pop music.
