Sadly I had to wait until November to order and receive it. Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. (Photo Courtesy of Richard Blade), Richard Blade will sign copies of his new autobiography, “World In My Eyes,” during a special DJ event at the Totally 80’s Bar & Grille in Fullerton on Friday, Dec. 15 and fans can visit Blade during a signing event at Barnes & Noble in Burbank on Sunday, Dec. 17. Kelli Skye Fadroski lives for entertainment.
Richard was at the heart Spandau Ballet’s chart success in the Sates and on several trips away with the band notably Australia became a lifelong friend… His enthusiasm and love of music is so catching.. My room in Basel was just that, a room. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Only half way thru the book and it's been a thoroughly interesting adventure . In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Los Angeles Community College District elections: Everything you need to know. If you grew up in the 80's, love music especially KROQ and alternative, and want to read a real success story, this is it. Doing that for Barbra, it put me in a situation to where I was doing parties for all of these celebrities, but also realizing that you just treat them like people and if you go in, show up on time and do a good job, you’re going to get asked back. And 6-9 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 21 at Made by Millworks, 240 Pine Ave., Long Beach.
Instead, he gives you a jaw-dropping, uncensored insider’s look into the world of music, movies, and television and its biggest stars, starting in the sixties and continuing through to the new century. Like most of the club DJs I wanted to get on the radio but again and again had found it to be a ‘closed shop’. He is as important to New Wave music as Benjamin Franklin was to kites.”, Interviews with John, Simon and Roger of Duran Duran, History of Depeche Mode as told by Martin, Dave and Fletch. “It has been incredibly emotional on so many levels for me because I wanted to write this book and tell my story of the early years and that was a bit of a risk because everyone was expecting me to write a book about KROQ and the ’80s and that would be it,” he said. She hired Blade in the late ’70s to DJ her son’s bar mitzvah and soon he was rubbing elbows with superstars such as Richard Gere, Sean Connery, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Gene Simmons, Diana Ross and Michael Jackson.
Richard Blade’s autobiography is much more than a spotlight on any one decade. Or, contact our editors by emailing moderator@scng.com.
“I had two dreams as a kid,” Blade says. Blade, too, is clearly sad about leaving colleagues who are truly friends, as well as giving up “the money and notoriety and popularity.” He’s also giving up his role as host of three British TV shows (“Inside Hollywood,” “The American Charts Show” and “Movies, Games and Videos”) and a nascent side career as a screenwriter--a script he wrote for the UPN sci-fi adventure series “Seven Days” is being produced for a scheduled May 24 airing.
To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. Though he left KROQ back in 2000, Blade continues to DJ clubs, parties and corporate events all over the country and can be heard daily on SiriusXM’s 1st Wave Ch. All copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property rights in this site, are the property of Richard Blade. Around the station, the sadness at an old friend’s exit is genuine and readily expressed--if in a very KROQ manner. Several of the DJs, obviously rife with boredom, had written on the walls in ballpoint pen. He came, he saw, and now he has written about it… on first name terms with all the players of the era, Richard Blade’s book is sure to be revealing and insightful.”, “If you’re interested in 80s music and the people who made it, you won’t find anyone who knows more than Richard Blade. Thank you my old mate for everything you did – now get me a signed copy of the book!”, Richard Blade book review by Kirkus Reviews. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. No. No, after 18 years as the avatar of ‘80s music on KROQ-FM (106.7)--first instrumental in launching those and many other bands’ U.S. careers, later keeper of the flame with his daily “Flashback Lunch” hour--Richard Blade strayed from his usual playlist as he was choosing the two songs he planned to use to close his final show Thursday. I’ll miss ‘em like the desert misses the rain.”. Tension builds as high schools wait for state to decide if sports can return as scheduled, Chain Reaction, Anaheim’s all-ages concert venue, announces plans to close as supporters rally to save it, HOA Homefront: Who decides on the HOA colors? (Photo courtesy of Richard Blade), Richard Blade (pictured posing with fans during his residency at SeaLegs Live) will sign copies of his new autobiography, World In My Eyes, during a special DJ event at the Totally 80s Bar & Grille in Fullerton on Friday, Dec. 15 and fans can visit Blade during a signing event at Barnes & Noble in Burbank on Sunday, Dec. 17. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, contributing photographer), Richard Blade (pictured left with Adam Ant) will sign copies of his new autobiography, World In My Eyes, during a special DJ event at the Totally 80s Bar & Grille in Fullerton on Friday, Dec. 15 and fans can visit Blade during a signing event at Barnes & Noble in Burbank on Sunday, Dec. 17. The selections, in fact, are not songs that have ever been a presence on the alternative-rock station and aren’t even from the ‘80s--one’s from 1978, the other from 1994.
Richard takes you on a journey that few have experienced: from his early days as a student at Oxford to the wild, lascivious nights of being a disco DJ touring the clubs of Europe, to coming to America and working with Michael Jackson, Barbra Streisand, and Sarah Jessica Parker and finally breaking through into the L.A. radio scene and becoming the number one morning drive personality in California. The next DJ following me would now read,‘Radio. Instead, he gives you a jaw-dropping, uncensored insider’s look into the world of music, movies, and television and its biggest stars, starting in the sixties and continuing through to the new century. “I was on the radio in the morning, then running off to do a TV show and then I was off doing an interview and then I was shooting a movie and that was all in one day.
From watching "Rio" debut (and bomb) at the Roxy while standing next to Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon to having his heart broken by Terri Nunn of Berlin, Blade takes readers back to 1982 in all its sexy, druggy, synthy glory. Nine words to answer it kept ringing through my head and on that final morning I scrawled them out on the wall right below the phrase.
“I came from this little town and I never met anyone famous apart from Richard Branson, who at the time was just building his own career. Terri’s greatest claim to fame arrived in 1986 with the single Take My Breath Away which became the theme song for the Tom Cruise-starrer action-drama film Top Gun (1986), peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, and won both the Academy Award for ‘Best Original Song’ and the Golden Globe Award for ‘Best Original Song’. Terri Kathleen Nunn (born June 26, 1961) is an American singer and actress. In the book, Blade also talks about the song that really changed his life: The Who’s “My Generation.” It came on over the little transistor radio his parents bought him when he was 13-years-old and along with his gang of best buds, he lost his mind. Please try again. When she’s not out reviewing a concert or interviewing some random famous person, she’s catching up on episodes of "The Walking Dead," out somewhere sampling craft beer, enjoying Taco Tuesday or semi-reluctantly watching "The Bachelor" or "The Bachelorette" with her girlfriends.
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