Richard Marx on the Beatles song that changed his life, "angel" Lionel Richie and his friend Ringo
Pop music superstar, songwriter and producer Richard Marx joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about his decades-long career, Beatles influences, his new memoir "Stories To Tell," and much more on "Everything Fab Four," a podcast co-produced by me and Womack (a music scholar who also writes about pop music for Salon) and distributed by Salon.
Chicago-born Marx, who released his self-titled debut album in 1987, went on to have a string of 14 top 20 hits in the late '80s and early '90s, including "Don't Mean Nothing," "Hold On to the Nights" and "Right Here Waiting." As he tells Womack, he started out singing in commercials for his jazz-pianist-turned-ad-man father's jingle company at the age of five. "I grew up in the recording studio as much as I did the classroom."
Source: salon.com
