Archives: March1995

• Queen at the BBC: Mercury rises again or Freddie’s Still Dead Volume 4!

  Queen at the BBC offers the earliest proof that the buck-toothed Mr. Mercury was off his fruity rocker in the grandiose “My Fairy King.” Once Mercury begins spinning his tale of “horses born with eagle wings” and “rivers made of wine so clear,” you feel as if you’re listening to that “I am the good Prince Lancelot, I like to sing and dance a lot” operetta from I Love Lucy. Queen had balls, all right. More balls than a Christmas tree.

• Seasons in the Seventies: K-Hits believes in yesterday but only if it charted after 1969 and before 1980

  Two years ago, Phoenix’s then-newest oldies station, KPSN-FM “Sunny 97,” hit the airwaves playing Arthur Conley’s 1967 hit “Sweet Soul Music.” At noon on November 28, 1994, KPSN played it again for the last time. David Bowie’s “Changes” followed, along with a new ten-minute station ID spelling out exactly what the big “ch-ch-ch-ch-changes” were going to be. KPSN had suddenly become KHTC-FM–K-Hits–devoted exclusively to “the greatest hits from the Seventies!”

• Peter, Paul & Mary: Old, Gifted and Back

  Quick–who did more for rock ‘n’ roll, Martha and the Vandellas or Peter, Paul and Mary? An interview with Paul Stookey.