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Bebe Buell
Buell at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival
Playboy centerfold appearance
November 1974
Preceded by	Ester Cordet
Succeeded by	Janice Raymond
Personal details
Born	Beverle Lorence Buell (1953-07-14) July 14, 1953 (age 58) Portsmouth, Virginia, U.S.
Measurements	Bust: 35 in / 89 cm Waist: 24 in / 61 cm Hips: 35 in / 89 cm
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[1]
Weight	120 lb (54 kg; 8.6 st)

Beverle Lorence "Bebe" Buell (born July 14, 1953) is an American fashion model and singer, and Playboy magazine's November 1974 Playmate of the Month. She is also known for dating rock musicians, and her social relationships with musical and cultural icons across four decades. She is actress Liv Tyler's mother from a brief relationship with Aerosmith vocalist Steven Tyler. In 2001, she wrote an autobiography (with Victor Bockris) titled Rebel Heart: An American Rock and Roll Journey. The book was a New York Times bestseller.^[2] The paperback was issued in 2002.

Filmmaker Cameron Crowe stated in interviews about his 2000 movie Almost Famous that he based the film's Penny Lane character (played by Kate Hudson) on two women he met during the early 1970s — Bebe Buell and Geraldine Edwards. He said he created some of Penny's dialogue from statements Buell had made in interviews over the years. The majority of the character was based on Geraldine Edwards, however.

Early life[link]

Buell was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, the daughter of Dorothea Johnson, who founded the Protocol School of Washington, and Harold Lloyd Buell.^[3]

Career[link]

Modeling[link]

She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the November 1974 issue; her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley.

Music[link]

In 1981, Buell recorded a four song EP on Rhino Records, produced by Rick Derringer and Ric Ocasek, with The Cars serving as her band on two tracks. The rock band Power Station began in 1984 when then-boyfriend John Taylor (of Duran Duran fame) pulled some famous friends together to provide backing for another of Buell's musical efforts. She also formed the band The B-Sides in 1980 but they disbanded in 1985.

She founded another band called The Gargoyles in 1985, and released a couple of singles. A few large record companies were showing interest, but they disbanded when the paternity of her daughter Liv became publicly known in 1991. She withdrew from performing for six years in the 1990s, Buell managed her daughter Liv, helping to launch her career as a successful international model and actress. She also represented actress Charis Michelsen.

After Buell's daughter left home in 1997, Buell returned to music to record a solo effort with producer Don Fleming, released in 2000. She also performed around New York with the Bebe Buell Band and, later, with Boston musicians The Rudds and The Neighborhoods' drummer Johnny Lynch to form a new band for a few shows which also included husband Jim Wallerstein.

In April 2009, the Boston duo Chester French released a tribute to Buell with their album track "Bebe Buell."

As of June 2009, the lineup for The Bebe Buell Band was: Bebe Buell on vocals, Jim Wallerstein on guitar, Pete Marshall on bass, David Matos on lead guitar, Aya on keyboards, Lindsey Anderson on guitar and Bobbie Rae on drums.

She released her first recording in ten years with a single "Air Kisses for the Masses" in May 2009 and completed recording of a full length 12 song album set for late Fall 2009. It can be downloaded on iTunes or Amazon MP3. Buell is playing a series of live shows in the New York City area to promote the single.

In September of 2011, Buell released Hard Love, an aggressive rock album influenced by grunge and glam rock. The album was produced By Bebe's husband James Wallerstein of the critically acclaimed proto-grunge band Das Damen, and Stephen DeAcutis. The 11-track record features original songs alongside covers of Gang of Four's "I Love A Man In Uniform" and "Baby Baby" by the English punk rock band The Vibrators.

Personal life[link]

Buell developed an interest in dating musicians when, as a sixteen year old model, she started dating Barry Cowsill of The Cowsills and David Cassidy. She later lived with rock musician Todd Rundgren from 1972 to 1978. During their cohabitation, they dated other people; in 1977, she gave birth to actress/model Liv Tyler, fathered by Steven Tyler, lead singer of Aerosmith. Buell's first marriage was to sometime-musician and actor Coyote Shivers in 1992.^[1] They divorced in 1999 after a year-long separation. In 2002 she married musician Jim Wallerstein of Das Damen and Vacationland fame.

Discography[link]

Solo

• Covers Girl (1981), 12" 4 song EP produced by Ric Ocasek & Rick Derringer

1. "My Little Red Book"
2. "Wild One Forever"
3. "The Little Black Egg"
4. "Funtime"

• "Hard Love (2011), 11-track album produced by James Wallerstein and Stephen DeAcutis.

1. "Mother of Rock'n'Roll"
2. "Devil You Know"
3. "Heartbeat"
4. "Got It All Wrong"
5. "Baby Baby"
6. "Black Angel"
7. "Sugar"
8. "I Love A Man In Uniform"
9. "Timeline"
10. "Normal Girl"
11. "I Will Wait"

• "Air Kisses For The Masses" (2009) single iTunes, Amazon MP3, produced by Twinomatick
• Free To Rock (2000) produced by Don Fleming w/ The Bebe Buell Band
• Retrosexual, (1994, reissued 2004) for Sky Dog Records France
• Little Black Egg (1982), 7" Single/UK for Moonlight Records

with The B-Sides

• A Side of the B-Sides (1984), 3 song 12" EP Picture Disc produced by Todd Rundgren

1. "Mr. Never Forever"
2. "Windy Words"
3. "Battle Cry"

with the Gargoyles

Two 45 releases:

• "Gargoyle"/"Bored Baby" (1993), 7" Single/Cave Creek Records/Ultra Under
• "Jacuzzi Jungle"/"Thirteen Wrong Turns" (1987), 7" Single/Route One Records

Cassette EP, "Bebe Buell and the Gargoyles": "Vibrator"/"Lick it and Stick it"/"Take Me to Your Leader"/"Luv Reaction" (1988), FISHTRAKS

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Bebe Buell

• Official website
• Bebe Buell at Playboy.com
• Bebe Buell at the Internet Movie Database

Joe Franklin (born Joseph Fortgang on March 9, 1926) is an American radio and television personality. From New York City, Franklin is credited with hosting the first television talk show. The show began in 1951 on WJZ-TV (later WABC-TV) and moved to WOR-TV (later WWOR-TV) from 1962 to 1993.^[1]

After retiring from the television show, Franklin concentrated on an overnight radio show, playing old records on WOR-AM on Saturday evenings. He currently interviews celebrities on the Bloomberg Radio Network.^[2]

An author, Franklin has written 23 books, including Classics of the Silent Screen.^[3] His 1995 autobiography Up Late with Joe Franklin^[4] chronicles his long career and includes claims that he had dalliances with Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, and that Veronica Lake "threw herself at me, but I always refrained."^[5] He has appeared as himself in countless films, notably Ghostbusters and Broadway Danny Rose.

Frankin's show was often parodied by Billy Crystal during the 1984–1985 season of Saturday Night Live. Franklin was also a pioneer in promoting products such as Hoffman Beverages and Ginger Ale on the air.^[1]

Known as "the king of nostalgia", Franklin's highly-rated television and radio shows, especially a cult favorite to cable television viewers and his long-running "Memory Lane" radio programs, focused on old-time show-business personalities.

Franklin has an encyclopedic knowledge of the music, musicians and singers, the Broadway stage shows, the films and entertainment stars of the first half of the 20th Century, and is an acknowledged authority on silent film.

He began his entertainment career at 16 as a record picker for Martin Block's popular "Make Believe Ballroom" radio program.

Among Franklin's own idols, as he frequently told viewers, were Al Jolson, whom he literally "followed around" as a teenager in New York, and Eddie Cantor, who eventually began buying jokes from the young Franklin and whose Carnegie Hall show Franklin later produced.

Franklin would delight his audience with trivia about the most obscure entertainers from past generations and equally unknown up-and-comers from the present. His guests ranged from novelty performers like Tiny Tim, and Morris Katz to popular entertainers like Bill Cosby and Captain Lou Albano to legends like Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin, John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Cary Grant, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, but also frequently included (sometimes on the same panel) unknown local New York punk bands, self-published authors, "tribute" impersonator lounge singers, and the like, giving the show a surreal atmosphere that was part of its appeal.

Many of today's well known talents such as Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand and Julia Roberts got their first television exposure on The Joe Franklin Show. Others, notoriously shy of live interviews, made frequent appearances on Franklin's programs: Frank Sinatra, for instance, appeared four times.

In addition to his TV Talk Show, Joe appeared regularly with Conan O'Brien. He's also seen on "The David Letterman Show," "Live With Regis And Kathy Lee," and has been mentioned several times on the hit cartoon series "The Simpsons."

Producer Richie Ornstein has worked side-by-side with Joe Franklin for decades and was a standard feature on Joe Franklin's Show to interact with guests and to discuss trivia.

References[link]

External links[link]

• joefranklinshow.com
• Joe Franklin at the Internet Movie Database
• "Interviews with Franklin by Frank Sisco, Steve Serwatka and Tom Sullivan". 2003-09-05. http://www.videovoom.com/List_People_Celebrities.htm. 
• Theatre Museum Award.

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (simplified Chinese: 毛主席语录; traditional Chinese: 毛主席語錄; pinyin: Máo zhǔxí yǔlù), is a book of selected statements from speeches and writings by Mao Zedong, the former leader of Chinese Communist Party, published from 1964 to about 1976 and widely distributed during the Cultural Revolution. The most popular versions were printed in small sizes that could be easily carried and were bound in bright red covers, becoming commonly known in the West as The Little Red Book. It is one of the most printed books in history.^[1]

Publication process[link]

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung was originally compiled by an office of the PLA Daily (People's Liberation Army Daily) as an inspirational political and military document. The initial publication covered 23 topics with 200 selected quotations by the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, and was entitled 200 Quotations from Chairman Mao. It was first given to delegates of a conference on 5 January 1964 who were asked to comment on it. In response to the views of the deputies and compilers of the book, the work was expanded to address 25 topics with 267 quotations, and the title was changed simply to Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung. On 10 January, the work was re-issued to the delegates and sent to select units of the People's Liberation Army who received their advance copies for educating troops as well as for their comments. In May 1964, the PLA General Political Department (Chinese: 总政治部), the chief political organ under Central Military Commission, revised Quotations, adding a half title page with the slogan "Workers of the world, unite!" ( 全世界无产者，联合起来！) in bold red letters, and endorsement leaves written by Lin Biao, Mao’s chosen successor, that included three lines from the diary of revolutionary hero Lei Feng. This version was issued "for internal use" to the military leaders. Following discussions that expanded the book twice more — finally closing on 33 topics and 427 quotations by Mao — the commission began publishing the definitive version in May 1965.^[2]

By this time, the Chinese Red Army and the entire nation were clamouring to read Mao's words. The initial demand for Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung was enormous. At the end of 1965, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China officially approved the book for publication by the People's Publishing House and for distribution within China by the Xinhua Bookstore.

The Ministry of Culture held special study meetings to develop a production and distribution plan. It sought assurances that the book would receive publishing priority and that there would be sufficient paper, ink, and printing presses available. The goal was for "ninety-nine percent (of the population of China to) read Chairman Mao's book", according to a catalogue of publication records of the People's Publishing House.^[2] Provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions across China were ordered to build hundreds of new printing houses to publish the Quotations during the second half of 1966 which pushed the limits of the Chinese printing industry.

As the Cultural Revolution and the personality cult of Mao Zedong was approaching its apogee in February 1967, only two others works were officially authorized for wide publication and distribution: Vladimir Lenin's, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism, and Friedrich Engels' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. During the subsequent three years, no other major works on Marxism-Leninism were printed in China.^[2] This disrupted plans for publishing any new volumes of The Complete Works of Marx and Engels that was already in progress. It also halted distribution of other ideological works. As late as 1970, more than 8 million copies of the 4-volume set of Selected Works of Marx and Engels that had already been printed (both in cloth hardcover and paperback) remained undistributed in storage warehouses on the grounds that other works “should not interfere with learning Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung”.

On the other hand, several other works by Mao had very large printings during the same period, even though these editions were not produced in the astronomical numbers of Quotations from Chairman Mao. These include Selected Works of Mao Zedong (in four volumes, 2.875 million copies in 14 languages), Selected Articles of Mao Zedong (various editions totalling 252 million copies), single article books, and works of poetry.^[3]

Foreign distribution[link]

Chairman Mao from 1966 French edition, Beijing

Original Lin Biao epigraph^[4] from the 1966 French edition.^[5]

In 1966, the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China approved Quotations from Chairman Mao for export. To meet overseas requirements, the editors of the Chinese Foreign Language Press made revisions necessitated by the situation. They added a "second edition preface" endorsement by Lin Biao, dated 16 December 1966 (which was torn-out following Lin Biao's death and public disgrace in September 1971). To the last page, they listed the names of the publisher (PLA General Political Department) without an ISBN, the printer and distributor (both Xinhua Bookstore), and the publication year.

By May 1967, bookstores in 117 countries and territories around the world – including Great Britain, France, Spain, Japan, Russia, Germany, Italy, Nepal, Indonesia, Burma, Iran, Arab and African nations and others – were distributing Mao's Quotations. Foreign presses operating in 20 countries contributed to the publication of 20 translations in 35 versions.^[2]

Publication number[link]

Publisher's page from the first French edition, 1966, printed in China

According to official statistics from departments associated with the PLA General Political Department, from 1964 to 1976, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung was published in 4 Chinese editions, 8 Chinese minority languages in 8 versions, one Braille edition, 37 foreign language version and a bilingual Chinese-English version (total 38 foreign versions), with a total printing of 1,055,498,000 copies.^[2] The Foreign Languages Publishing and Distribution Administration, according to reports from October 1967, published translations in 65 languages in 853 formats for worldwide distribution.^[2]

Some researchers claim that as many as 5 to 6.5 billion copies of Quotations were printed,^[6] however, these claims appear to be dubious and are not corroborated by governmental Chinese reports.

The book's phenomenal popularity may be because it was essentially an unofficial requirement for every Chinese citizen to own, to read, and to carry it at all times during the latter half of Mao's rule, especially during the Cultural Revolution.^[7]

During the Cultural Revolution, studying the book was not only required in schools but was also a standard practice in the workplace as well. All units, in the industrial, commercial, agricultural, civil service, and military sectors, organized group sessions for the entire workforce to study the book during working hours. Quotes from Mao were either bold-faced or highlighted in red, and almost all writing, including scientific essays, had to quote Mao.

Formats[link]

The most widely produced editions of the Quotations of Chairman Mao were published with a printed red vinyl cover wrapper over cardboard with pages bound in 64 folios that included colour photos of Mao. (Other editions of the book were covered in cloth, silk, leather, paper, and other materials.) Most editions were produced in a functional, compact size that fit into a pocket, were easy to carry, and could be taken out at any time "for practice, learning, application." It was published in 32 other common sizes, allegedly the largest format printed on only 4 pages as large as the newspaper Reference News, and the smallest format the size of a matchbox.^[2]

Role and social impact[link]

A quote from the preface of "The Little Red Book" by Lin Biao (with his name scratched out) on the Huayang Palace in Jinan; photo 2007

Today, the book is a symbol of Mao Zedong Thought. Admirers of Mao Zedong can frequently be found holding “The Little Red Book” gripped with their right hand waving it over their heads to show joy, or cries of condemnation. The tradition of the ritual chanting of slogans originated with Lin Biao who Mao Zedong met in the Red Guard. Among the best known is: "Long live the proletariat, holding the Quotations (from Chairman Mao) in their hands!" ( 万岁不离口，语录不离手！) which became a cliché of dogmatism or formalist irony.^[2]

Faint words from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book, painted during the Cultural Revolution, still appear on walls in some Chinese villages; photo 2005

In certain situations, the Quotations is given as a gift, for example, when public funds are involved, or when personal events arise, such as congratulating newlyweds, and so on. It is said that for some people, keeping the Quotations at home is a psychological burden, because they cannot dispose of it, and if it is inadvertently stained or soiled, it likely will cause considerable offense.^[2]

Foreign press reports in the West called the work "The Little Red Book" reflecting its common small size and bright cover, not without irony.^{[clarification needed]} After the Cultural Revolution ended, some Chinese people also adopted the nickname (back-translated into Chinese as "The Treasured Red Book") simplified Chinese: 红宝书; traditional Chinese: 紅寶書; pinyin: hóng bǎoshū.

During the 1960s, the book was the single most visible icon in mainland China, even more visible than the image of the Chairman himself. In posters and pictures created by CPC's propaganda artists, nearly every painted character whether smiling or looking determined, was always seen with a copy of the book in his or her hand.^{[citation needed]} After the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976 and the rise of Deng Xiaoping in 1978, the importance of the book waned considerably, and the glorification of Mao's quotations was considered to be left deviationism and a cult of personality.

Today, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung is mostly a piece of nostalgia. Various editions are popular with some collectors, and rare and unusual printings command extremely high prices.^[8] It may be purchased at shops in Beijing, Shanghai, other major cities, as well as at some tourist attractions.

Images from "The Little Red Book"[link]

• 

  Mao, ca. 1910
• 

  Mao, ca. 1920
• 

  Mao working in a rice field
• 

  Mao wearing a cap
• 

  Mao standing in a jeep
• 

  Mao voting
• 

  Mao making a speech
• 

  Mao in front of a crowd
• 

  Mao visiting workers
• 

  Mao visiting with a family
• 

  Mao sitting
• 

  Mao playing ping pong

Content and format[link]

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung comprises 427 quotations, divided thematically into 33 chapters. It is also called "Thoughts of Chairman Mao" by many Chinese people. The quotations range in length from a sentence to a few short paragraphs, and borrow heavily from a group of about two dozen documents in the four volumes of Mao's Selected Works. In the book's latter half, a strong empiricist tendency evidences itself in Mao's thought^{[citation needed]}. Usually the quotations are arranged logically, to deal with one to three themes in the development of a chapter. The table below summarizes the book. Please note that the summaries represent what Mao is claiming or writing in each chapter.

See also[link]

• Chairman Mao badge
• Cult of personality
• The Green Book
• Mein Kampf
• Ruhnama
• The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• DeFrancis, John: Annotated Quotations from Chairman Mao. Yale University Press, 1975. ISBN 0-300-01870-3.
• Bristow, Michael: Who owns Mao's millions?. BBC News, 2007.
• Han, Oliver Lei: Sources and early printing history of Chairman Mao's "Quotations".

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Quotations from Chairman Mao

• Zhengyuan Fu, Autocratic Tradition and Chinese Politics, source for total number printed.

Original Chinese text[link]

• 毛泽东语录, at Wikiquote

English translations of original text[link]

• Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, at Terebess Asia Online (TAO)
• Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, at Art-bin.com
• Quotations from Mao Tse-Tung, at Mao Tse Tung Internet Archive, Marxists.org

Little Red is a rock band from Melbourne, Australia consisting of Adrian Beltrame (guitar, vocals), Dominic Byrne (guitar, vocals), Quang Dinh (bass, vocals), and Taka Honda (drums).

Biography[link]

The band was formed in 2005 and were featured on Triple J Unearthed.^[1] The band won the 2008 Australia-wide 'Garage to V' competition held by Virgin Mobile to win a slot at all shows of the Australian V Festival in 2008,^[2] while the band has also performed at the Falls Festival, Meredith Music Festival, the Big Day Out, the Pyramid Rock Festival and the Laneway Festival.

Little Red's songs "Waiting", "Coca-Cola" and "Witch Doctor" have all received regular play on Australian nation-wide radio station Triple J,^[3] while "Coca-Cola" was also included on the official soundtrack of Australian TV series Underbelly, and was voted #47 on the 2008 Triple J Hottest 100.

The band independently released in Australia an album entitled Listen to Little Red on 28 June 2008,^[4] which debuted at number 29 on the ARIA Charts.^[5] The album was licensed for release outside of Australia by the UK independent Lucky Number Music^[6] and was released on 16 November 2009 in the UK and early 2010 internationally.

In September, 2010, the band released a second album, Midnight Remember, featuring their latest single, "Rock It" which gained a gold accreditation^[7] and second place in Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2010, with the album's second single "Slow Motion" securing 79th position.^[8]

On 21 April 2011 they released a music video to "All Mine," also from Midnight Remember on youtube, through the Liberation Music record label's account.

Touring[link]

• Headlined their 'All Mine' National Tour featuring Worlds End Press & Passport For Amy 2011
• Toured with Blondie and The Pretenders, Evening On The Green 2010
• Big Day Out 2011
• Pyramid Rock 2010/2011
• Splendour in the Grass July/August 2010
• Toured with Kasabian in July 2010
• Headline tour of Australia supported by Ground Components in April/May 2009
• Headline tour of Australia - University Tour - in October 2008
• Toured with Vampire Weekend on their national Australian tour in August 2008
• Headline tour of Australia - album tour - in August/September 2008 supported by The Holidays and Andy Bull
• Toured with The Panics on their national album tour in May 2008
• Toured with Spoon in January 2008
• Toured with Operator Please on their national Australian tour in April 2008
• Toured with Art of Fighting in September 2007

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• Listen to Little Red — Hooch Hound/Shock (28 June 2008) AUS #29^[9] — Lucky Number/Lucky Number Music (2009)
• Midnight Remember — Liberation (September 2010) AUS #5^[9]

EPs[link]

• Get Ready! EP

Singles[link]

• "Coca Cola"/"It's Alright" — Neon Gold/Lucky Number/Lucky Number Music (2009)
• "Waiting"/"Wait Is Over" — Neon Gold/Lucky Number/Lucky Number Music (2009)
• "Rock It" (2010) AUS #19^[9]
• "Slow Motion" (2010)
• "All Mine" (2011)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Little Red on Myspace
• Little Red video interview @ VFestival

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Eddie Trunk (born August 8, 1964) is an American music historian, radio personality, talk show host, and author best known as the host of several hard rock and heavy metal themed radio and television shows.

Current work[link]

Trunk's current work includes the nationally syndicated radio show Eddie Trunk Rocks, which is recorded at the New York radio station Q104.3 (WAXQ) FM.^[1] Trunk also hosts Trunk Nation on the Sirius XM Radio channel Hair Nation (Channel 39) (formerly Eddie Trunk Live on The Boneyard)^[2] and is a music host and interviewer for the MSG Network, a cable network based out of New York City.^[3] Trunk is also the host of That Metal Show, which airs weekly on VH1 Classic.^[4]

Former work[link]

Trunk had hosted "Friday Night Rocks" and "Saturday Night Rocks" for WNEW-FM in New York City until the radio station underwent a format change in 2003. He was also a regular disc jockey on Q104.3 before joining WNEW-FM and was a VJ who hosted the weekend episodes of Metal Mania on the cable television channel VH1 Classic.^[3]

He had also hosted a weekly Saturday four hour program on XM Radio's Ozzy's Boneyard Channel. Trunk was suspended after an interview with New York Mets catcher Mike Piazza. In that interview, Piazza was critical of XM Radio's programming on the Boneyard Channel 1. Trunk was not heard on XM again until late November 2006 when he appeared on the Ron and Fez show to announce his return to XM. He began hosting Eddie Trunk Live on the Boneyard beginning the first week in December 2006.

In May 2006, Guns N' Roses lead singer Axl Rose made a surprise visit on Eddie Trunk's Q104.3 radio show. Rose walked in unexpectedly to Trunk's radio studio in New York and spent two and a half hours live on the air with Trunk and other guests.^[5]

Biography[link]

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Eddie Trunk was born on August 8, 1964 in New Jersey.^[3] He grew up in Madison, New Jersey, where he attended Madison High School.^[6] As a teenager, he became obsessed with Kiss, Raspberries, and other bands including Aerosmith, Rush, UFO and Black Sabbath. Eddie has stated that he has never cared about which bands are "cool" and endured teasings for listening to Kiss during the 80s when they fell out of fashion. During high school, he began to write reviews of records for school credit and soon found his passion in music.

Trunk's first exposure to radio was when he learned about a local college radio station that would allow high school students to work there during the summer while the college kids were at home. He volunteered but the program was scrapped because of security concerns but the idea that he could make a living in radio remained. Eddie then attended a local community college but dropped out because he decided that it was not for him. He did get a job at a record store right across the street from WDHA-FM, his favorite New Jersey radio station. There he got to know many of the DJs and other radio station employees and would often consult him on which hard rock/heavy metal songs to play though the Program Director resisted this.

From a friend, Trunk learned of a pirate radio station that was illegally broadcasting from someone's basement. Trunk went over and played a few records and did a few shows. He made some tapes that were not all that impressive and showed them to WDHA. His enthusiasm along with the increased popularity of the metal genre earned him an invitation to "hang out" at WDHA. After about of year of working at the station as an unpaid intern, he finally convinced management to do a hardrock/metal specialty show. For ten years he worked part time and eventually hosted, produced and programmed it.

Around 1986, Trunk became an employee of Megaforce Records which had signed both Metallica and Anthrax. He became Vice President of the company at 25 years old. During that time he earned executive producer credit on some works from the following bands: Anthrax, Raven, TT Quick, Manowar, Overkill, King's X, Prophet, Icon and Ace Frehley. In fact, Eddie was the main driving force behind reviving Ace Frehley's career, convincing Megaforce Records head Jon "Jonny Z" Zazula to sign Ace to a solo deal.

In 1994, Trunk devoted himself to radio full time and was hired by a radio station called Pure Rock Q104.3 in New York. He wanted to do a metal show but was not permitted to do so because there were rumors that the station was going to be sold. These rumors proved true and the station was sold a year into Trunk's career there. During the last shift of the station, Trunk abandoned the playlist and played requests. Phone lines were jammed and the last show was a great success, but many thought that it would be the end as Pure Rock Q104.3 became Classic Q104.3. Quite the opposite was true, the new management were so impressed that they allowed Eddie to stay. He spent two years there and became incredibly popular.

Around 1997, WNEW FM was looking to become a more "heavy" station and move away from their classic rock playlist. Trunk was one of the first hired because of his experience and willingness to be a team player. He immediately wanted to do a metal show like the one he had with WDHA and eventually Saturday Night Rocks was born. Then WNEW made a drastic change into talk radio and Eddie's show was one of the few retained. Eddie Trunk was able to program his own show after the format flipped and was the only music show on an all talk radio station that featured the Opie and Anthony and Ron and Fez shows. WNEW made a format flip in the early morning hours of January 27, 2003 to a soft-rock station, firing all on-air talent.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Official Myspace website
• Eddie on Twitter