Mark Farner was co-founder/singer/guitarist for Grand Funk Railroad who were founded in 1969. With Grand Funk he had 6 Platinum and 3 Gold records from 1969 to 1975. In 1976, Mark went on to release 7 solo albums including his latest Closer To My Home that dropped in 2024. In our May of 2025 interview with Mark, multi-award winning program director Ray White delves into many of his career highlights going back to his breakthrough in the music industry, up to talking about his latest album release. In our showcase segment we also feature a band that launched their career in the late 1960's...Jethro Tull whose brand new project is titled Curious Remnant. Don't miss this special "Back From The 1960's" episode brought to you by your friends at Classic Artists Today!
Cy Curnin has been the frontman for The Fixx since they were formed in 1980. One of the few "classic" bands with their originial members today, they have produced a Platinum and Gold albums in their careers, with 16 songs landing on various singles charts. Multi-award winning program director Ray White sat down backstage with Cy in April of 2025 to talk about major events during the career of the band, his latest solo EP - My Own Worst Enemy, the latest album by The Fixx - Every Five Seconds and other awesome happenings. In our showcase segment we continue to focus on bands that launched in the 1980's featuring the latest on Depeche Mode, who in 2023 dropped Memento Mori and The Call who uncovered songs from back in the day and recently released them as The Lost Tapes. We're back from the 80's on this episode, from Classic Artists Today!