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In 1965, the Beatles were not granting interviews after their Minnesota concert. But intern reporter Holly Stocking needed a story — and she’d just gotten her hands on a waitress uniform for the Leamington, the hotel where the Beatles were staying. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
1994 – On Gao Hong’s first tour of America, a radio listener, hearing of her concert, wondered how this Chinese musician could play a peapod? Hong played the pipa, not peapod, and decided then to move to Minnesota and make it her mission to introduce Americans to the Chinese instrument. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
October 1982: Star Tribune music critic Jon Bream had never seen a band like the Go-Go’s. No one had. An all-female group that played their own instruments, wrote their own songs and had a number one album. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
February 3, 1959 – Singer Bobby Vee was just fifteen when he filled in at the Moorhead concert for Buddy Holly and the other artists killed in a plane crash that morning. Fifty-five years later, to the day, Vee, then living a quiet life in St. Joseph, would put out his last album. Here’s Britt … [Read Transcript...]
