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CAROL MILLER'S GET THE LED OUT TO FEATURE INTERVIEW WITH SQUIRE AND WHITE OF YES |
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New York, NY – JULY 7, 2010 – Denny Somach Productions (DSP) today announced that Chris Squire and Alan White of the legendary rock band YES, will be the co-hosts with Carol Miller on next week’s edition of her nationally distributed radio program, Carol Miller’s Get the Led Out. The interview, which will air throughout the full one-hour broadcast, was conducted just days ago during the 2010 YES tour of America. This candid and revealing exclusive interview will be featured on Carol Miller’s Get the Led Out during the broadcast week of July 12, 2010. United Stations Radio Network distributes the program.
Producer Denny Somach commented, “We were thrilled to get Chris and Alan to sit down for this interview while on tour with YES. In addition to Squire and White, YES includes Steve Howe, Oliver Wakeman (son of Rick Wakeman) and Benoit David.
YES is a band that formed in London in 1968. Despite numerous lineup changes and occasional splits, the band have continued for over forty years and maintain a tremendous worldwide following. Yes have sold over 30 million records. In 1968, Britain’s Melody Maker columnist Tony Wilson selected Yes and Led Zeppelin as the two bands "Most Likely To Succeed." In the brand new interview session to be broadcast next week, Squire and White discuss their appearance at the 2007 concert that served as the Led Zeppelin Reunion show. The two also discuss in depth the period in 1981, when Squire and White teamed up with Jimmy Page to form a band to be called XYZ. The name is derived from the abbreviation for eX-YES and Zeppelin. Squire also supplies a sample of the music they recorded with the proposed super-group.
Carol Miller’s Get the Led Out is a programming package of long and short-form features hosted by New York Radio legend, Carol Miller. Affiliates are provided with a 1-hour weekly program and 5 weekly short features which can double as podcasts, all of which examine the career of the band that is generally acknowledged as the greatest hard rock band of all time, Led Zeppelin. The program recently celebrated its first anniversary and airs on over 75 radio stations including affiliations with WAXQ in New York and KLOS in Los Angeles.
Carol Miller is one of the longest-running New York radio personalities, from years at WPLJ and WNEW and currently Clear Channel’s WAXQ-FM. She began her career as a rock jock at WMMR, Philadelphia. She has hosted numerous nationally and internationally distributed radio specials and TV like Entertainment Tonight, VH-1 and is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Carol has a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (her reason for landing in Philly) and a Juris Doctorate from the Hofstra University School of Law. She is an acknowledged expert on Led Zeppelin, and has interviewed the surviving members numerous times over the years.
The program is distributed by United Stations Radio Network. It is produced by Denny Somach Productions and Andy Denemark serves as executive producer for USRN.
Carol Miller’s Get the Led Out maintains a very comprehensive web site for the show, which is located at www.ledzeponline.com
Denny Somach Productions maintains one of the largest archives of classic rock content and has
a long history of creating some of the most memorable programs in rock radio. DSP produced feature programming for NBC’s The Source, NBC Radio Entertainment, ABC Radio, CBS, MTV and the highly acclaimed award winning Beatles program, Ticket to Ride. Most recently DSP produced the official radio show for Eric Clapton’s Autobiography and Bill Clinton’s Giving Radio Show.
Contact:
| Denny Somach Productions 610.446.7100 denny@dennysomach.com |