• Night Flight remembers Hardy Fox, primary composer & co-founder of The Residents
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• Exclusive: Talking Metal podcast host Mark Strigl picks his Top Five Favorite Night Flight Plus titles!
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• Lech Kowalski’s “D.O.A.: A Right of Passage” features Sex Pistols U.S. tour footage & more
• Bob Gruen’s behind-the-scenes look at his Ike & Tina Turner music doc “On the Road: 1971-72″
• “The Gumby Show”: America’s Favorite Clayboy is back again on Night Flight!
• “Rockin’ Ronnie”: Stuart Samuels’ hilariously irreverent look at America’s Leading Man
• “Arise! The SubGenius Movie”: The return of Night Flight’s “Love That “Bob”” episodes!
• Outsider artist & one-man showcase filmmaker Laz Rojas comes to Night Flight Plus!

All posts tagged "1988"

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  1988’s “And God Created Woman” starred the daughter of right-wing TV host Wally George

  On March 12, 1988, during “Night Flight Goes to the Movies,” we were introduced to Roger Vadim‘s forgettable-yet-forgivable remake of And God Created Woman, starring Rebecca DeMornay, who also happened to be the daughter of bloviating TV...

  • Posted October 16, 2018
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  “African Sounds”: UB40’s reggae-based anthem for a free South Africa, “Sing Our Own Song”

  Like just about everyone else, we were a little surprised to hear UB40’s name in the news again, decades after the band’s prime, but it sent us back to the archives again for another look and listen...

  • Posted October 9, 2018
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  Megadeth’s thrash-metal “Anarchy in the U.K.” cover featured the Sex Pistols’ Steve Jones

  “In 1983, Southern California rockers Megadeth first forged their white hot strain of heavy metal and hardcore,” says Pat Prescott in Night Flight’s “Take Off to New Heavy Metal,” which arrives about a half-hour into this episode...

  • Posted October 2, 2018
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  “Merchandising”: Watch an excerpt from pop parodist Weird Al’s “The Compleat Al” (1985)

  Night Flight’s vintage clip-show “Outrageous in Hollywood” features an excerpt from pop parodist Weird Al Yankovic‘s The Compleat Al, which debuted on the Showtime network on Wednesday, August 7, 1985, just a few years after the 1983...

  • Posted October 1, 2018
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  “Surf and Destroy”: Raging Santa Cruz hardcore punkers BL’AST pre-saged California Stoner Rock

  “In 1984, Mike Neider joined Santa Cruz band M.A.D. and BL’AST was born,” says Night Flight’s Pat Prescott in her introduction to the band’s “Surf and Destroy” video in Night Flight’s “Take Off to Hardcore,” which originally...

  • Posted August 6, 2018
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  “Life in the Slaw Lane”: Comedian Kip Addotta talks about veggies but he’s just arugula guy

  Kip Addotta’s 1986 video “Life in the Slaw Lane” was the legendary comedian’s follow-up to an even bigger pun-filled novelty hit, “Wet Dream,” both longtime staples of the Dr. Demento Radio Show. It’s just one of the...

  • Posted August 1, 2018
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  “Heaven Knows”: The second act of Led Zeppelin’s leonine lead singer, Robert Plant

  In “Take Off to the Second Coming of Rock ‘n’ Roll” — one of our syndicated episodes of “Night Flight,” this one originally airing in 1992 and now streaming on Night Flight Plus — host Tom Juarez...

  • Posted July 30, 2018
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  “Help Save the Youth of America”: In 1988, Billy Bragg implored American fans to register & vote

  We’ve reached July 4th on the calendar, our Independence Day, and so we thought we’d use this occasion to offer up another look at Night Flight’s “Take Off to Freedom!,” which originally aired on July 2, 1988,...

  • Posted July 4, 2018
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