SPECIAL: A Chat With Richard Marx

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Welcome to a Strip Extra. Listeners of this show will NOT be
surprised to learn that Steve is a big fan of none other than
1980s and 1990s pop balladeer Richard Marx. So when the
opportunity presented itself to interview Marx today, he made it
work. Since Marx plays the Orleans Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas
Saturday and Sunday,  March 12 and 13, we didn’t want
to  wait until next week’s show to post it. So here we
go.

Richard Marx, of course, is well known for some of the biggest
pop ballads of the 1990s including “Hold On To The Nights,” “Now
and Forever” and “Right Here Waiting.” Over the past decade, he
became a music producer and songwriter for the likes of N Sync,
Barbra Steisand and Luther Vandross. He lives with his wife,
“Flashdance” and “Dirty Dancing” star Cynthia Rhodes, and their
three sons in the Chicago suburbs.  In his hey day, Marx
sold more than 30 million records and was the first solo artist
to see his first seven songs make the top 5 on the Hot 100
singles charts.

In this conversation, Marx explains why he stopped cutting albums
of his own, expresses pity and annoyance at Phil Collins of
Collins’ recent public diatribe against the music business and
sings some of the very well-known advertising jingles his father
wrote.