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Richard interviews an historian/archivist, an author and a journalist/rapper about the life, times and music of Bob Marley and  how he became caught-up in the CIA's attempt to destablize and overthrow the progressive government of Michael Manley. GUESTS:  Roger Steffens is a Brooklyn, New York-born American actor, author, lecturer, editor, reggae archivist, photographer and, producer. He may be best known for his reggae archives, in particular his archives of Bob Marley. He is the author of So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley. David Dusty Cupples, Ph. D., studied psychology at Cal State Fullerton and UC Santa Barbara with specializations in personality, cognition, hypnosis and consciousness. He has taught psychology at university in California and English in Vietnam and Taiwan. He is the author of Stir it Up; The CIA Targets Jamaica, Bob Marley and the Progressive Manley Government. Casey Gane-McCalla is a journalist and rapper, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Born to a South African mother and Jamaican father, he quickly became interested in global politics and history, which he studied at Columbia University. The former staff writer for NewsOne has covered a wide variety of subjects from music to politics to drugs and organized crime.  He is the author of Inside The CIA's Secret War in Jamacia

Richard interviews an historian/archivist, an author and an author/rapper about the life, times and music of Bob Marley and  how he became caught-up in the CIA's attempt to destablize and overthrow the progressive government of Michael Manley. GUESTS:  Roger Steffens is a Brooklyn, New York-born American actor, author, lecturer, editor, reggae archivist, photographer and, producer. He may be best known for his reggae archives, in particular his archives of Bob Marley. He is the author of So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley. David Dusty Cupples, Ph. D., studied psychology at Cal State Fullerton and UC Santa Barbara with specializations in personality, cognition, hypnosis and consciousness. He has taught psychology at university in California and English in Vietnam and Taiwan. He is the author of Stir it Up; The CIA Targets Jamaica, Bob Marley and the Progressive Manley Government. Casey Gane-McCalla is a journalist and rapper, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Born to a South African mother and Jamaican father, he quickly became interested in global politics and history, which he studied at Columbia University. The former staff writer for NewsOne has covered a wide variety of subjects from music to politics to drugs and organized crime.  He is the author of Inside The CIA's Secret War in Jamacia

The life, career and tragic death of Britain's Phil Spector, Joe Meek is explored. Meek was a wildly innovative record producer, sound engineer and song writer best known for composing and producing the instrumental 'Telstar' which was the first song to become a number one hit in both America and the UK. GUESTS:  Peter Rochford is the chairman of The Joe Meek Society which was formed in the early nineties to remember and celebrate the music and life of the legendary sixties record producer and song writer. Spencer Leigh began  broadcasting on BBC Radio Merseyside in the early 1970s.  His music programme On the Beat has been running on BBC Radio Merseyside since 1985 and is currently broadcast between 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm on Sundays. Over the years, Leigh has interviewed thousands of musicians on the show.  He is the author of over 30 books on pop and rock music and culture in Britain. Bobby Rio is singer and former lead vocalist with Bobby Rio and The Revelles who recorded on the Pye label in Britain.  He also sang under the name Bobby Cristo with Bobby Cristo and The Rebels  on the Decca label.  Joe Meek produced several singles with Bobby including, Value for Love, The Other Side of the Tracks and Everything in the Garden. 

In part two, Richard speaks with two rock journalists about Lynyrd Skynyrd’s final tour in 1977 culminating in the tragic plane crash that took the lives of Ronnie Van Zant and Steve and Cassie Gaines. They’ll also discuss the strange foreshadowing of the crash found on the group’s final album, Street Survivors, which was released just three days before the horrific plane crash. GUESTS: Peter Wendel, based in the nation's capital, is a journalist by training doing stints with major D.C. media outlets, including Gannett News/USA Today and Congressional Quarterly. Peter founded SongMango.com in 2014 as an outlet for his passion for music, particularly live music. Peter has been to hundreds of concerts and festivals, like The Peach, The All Good, Mountain Jam and Lockn'. He's ridden legendary Grateful Dead runs from Ventura County Fairgrounds (CA) to Irvine Meadows (CA) from the Nassau Coliseum (NY) to the Boston Garden. Catch him out on tour! Philip D. Gibbons’ journalism has appeared in such national publications as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Smoke Magazine, France Today and Fair.Org’s Extra! He is a past winner of the Santa Barbara Writers’ Conference Screenwriting Competition and was a quarter finalist in the prestigious Nicholl Fellowship Awards. This podcast was produced in conjunction with the Woodbury University M. A. program in “Media For Social Justice.” In 2000, he appeared on the television show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire,” and won $500,000.

In part one, Richard speaks with two rock journalists about the early history southern rock pioneers Lynyrd Skynyrd.  They discuss the bands' formation, early success and their final North American tour in 1977. GUESTS: Peter Wendel, based in the nation's capital, is a journalist by training doing stints with major D.C. media outlets, including Gannett News/USA Today and Congressional Quarterly. Peter founded SongMango.com in 2014 as an outlet for his passion for music, particularly live music. Peter has been to hundreds of concerts and festivals, like The Peach, The All Good, Mountain Jam and Lockn'. He's ridden legendary Grateful Dead runs from Ventura County Fairgrounds (CA) to Irvine Meadows (CA) from the Nassau Coliseum (NY) to the Boston Garden. Catch him out on tour! Philip D. Gibbons’ journalism has appeared in such national publications as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Smoke Magazine, France Today and Fair.Org’s Extra! He is a past winner of the Santa Barbara Writers’ Conference Screenwriting Competition and was a quarter finalist in the prestigious Nicholl Fellowship Awards. This podcast was produced in conjunction with the Woodbury University M. A. program in “Media For Social Justice.” In 2000, he appeared on the television show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire,” and won $500,000.  

Richard speaks with two authors about a supposed conspiracy to change standardized tuning for musical instruments from 432 Hz to 440 Hz in order to sow discord and disharmony. GUESTS: Marty Leeds is the author of three books, The Peacock's Tales - The Alchemical Writings of Claudia Pavonis; Pi & The English Alphabet Vol. 1; and Pi & The English Alphabet Vol. 2     Marty  has an ongoing lecture series available for free on youtube.com/martyleeds33. He is the host of the podcast The Marty Leeds' Mathemagical Radio Hour discussing everything from myth, math, spirituality, philosophy, sacred geometry, lost civilizations and the holy sciences. Marty has been a guest on many popular podcasts, and was a featured speaker at the Free Your Mind Conference in Philadelphia in 2013.   Truth addict Brendand D. Murphy is the co-founder of Trooth [link > trooth.network] social network (where free speech lives), and co-founder of Global Freedom Movement, which he runs with his partner Aimee.  He is the author of the ground-breaking book The Grand Illusion: A Synthesis of Science and Spirituality .  Brendan also facilitates sound-based “DNA activations,” offering conscious seekers a trigger point for accelerated evolution, embodiment, and multi-levelled healing. He has spoken at various events, including Nexus Conference and Afterlife Explorers, and has been widely published, including in Nexus and New Dawn magazines.      

Part Two:  Two rock journalists and a close friend of Bon Scott's examine the final days of the legendary AC/DC vocalist.   GUESTS: Clinton Walker is an Australian writer, best known for his works on popular music but with a broader interest in social and cultural history and theory. Sydney's Sun Herald has called him "our best chronicler of Australian grass-roots culture." Books he's published like Inner City Sound (1981), Buried Country (2000) and History is Made at Night (2012) have had a seminal impact on the Australian music scene. Clinton found best-selling success as Bon Scott's biographer Highway to Hell: The Life and Death of AC/DC Legend Bon Scott.  Susan Masino has been a rock journalist for over thirty years, and has written six books, created and hosted the 94.1 JJO Local Stage radio show from 1997-2004, and produced 8 local music compilation CDs. Masino also appears in the Van Halen DVD, The Early Years, and Let There Be Rock-The Movie. Her book The Story of AC/DC-Let There Be Rock is now published in 11 languages. Mary Renshaw was a teenager when she met Bon Scott at a Valentine's concert in 1968.  They Remained close friends until Bon's death in 1980. She is the co-author of Live Wire: A Memoir of Bon Scott by Three People Who Knew Him Best

Part One: The early life and career of singer Bon Scott is examined, culminating with his nearly six years as AC/DC's frontman.   GUESTS: Clinton Walker is an Australian writer, best known for his works on popular music but with a broader interest in social and cultural history and theory. Sydney's Sun Herald has called him "our best chronicler of Australian grass-roots culture." Books he's published like Inner City Sound (1981), Buried Country (2000) and History is Made at Night (2012) have had a seminal impact on the Australian music scene. Clinton found best-selling success as Bon Scott's biographer Highway to Hell: The Life and Death of AC/DC Legend Bon Scott.  Susan Masino has been a rock journalist for over thirty years, and has written six books, created and hosted the 94.1 JJO Local Stage radio show from 1997-2004, and produced 8 local music compilation CDs. Masino also appears in the Van Halen DVD, The Early Years, and Let There Be Rock-The Movie. Her book The Story of AC/DC-Let There Be Rock is now published in 11 languages. Mary Renshaw was a teenager when she met Bon Scott at a Valentine's concert in 1968.  They Remained close friends until Bon's death in 1980. She is the co-author of Live Wire: A Memoir of Bon Scott by Three People Who Knew Him Best

The Rock 'n Roll Twilight Zone is taking a short one-week hiatus as the crew prepares for Season Two.  In this abbreviated epiosde, Richard provides a glimpse of what's in store for season two.  He also shares the strange details of his last telephone conversation with this late friend and radio partner, R. Gary Patterson.

Richard counts down the top ten moments from season one.  

Richard interviews two rock journalists who explore the possible curse on Fleetwood Mac's revolving door of guitarists, starting with founding member, Peter Green. GUESTS: Richie Unterberger is the author of numerous rock history books, including Fleetwood Mac: The Complete Illustrated History; Unknown Legends of Rock'n'Roll and a history of 1960s folk-rock, Jingle Jangle Morning. His book The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film won a 2007 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence inHistorical Recorded Sound Research. Other books of his include WhiteLight/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day and Won't Get FooledAgain: The Who from Lifehouse to Quadrophenia.He teaches courses on rock history at several San Francisco Bay Areacolleges, and has contributed to numerous publications, including MOJO,Record Collector, and The Oxford American. He has also written severalhundred liner notes for CD reissues on various labels, including Rhino,Universal, Collectors’ Choice, and Real Gone Music. Mike Evans is the author of Fleetwood Mac: The Definitive History. He is a London-based author with a background as a musician. He began to write about music in the 1970s for such publications as "Sounds," "Creem," and "Melody Maker." He has since gone on to write the bestselling Elvis: A Celebration; Woodstock: Three Days That Rocked the World; The Art of British Rock; Neil Young: The Definitive History; Rock'n Roll’s Strangest Tales, and more.  

Richard assembles a team of experts who attempt to answer questions regarding some of the great Rock mysteries.  Listeners were invited to submit questions to the show over the course of the summer.  The seven questions selected include: "Could Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins really have seen a shapeshifter as he has claimed?" "Was the song Hotel California by The Eagles really about The Church of Satan?" "Were Chris Cornell of Soundgarden and Chester Bennington of Linkin Park murdered because they were attempting to expose a massive child sex ring?" GUESTS: Peter Wendel, based in the nation's capital, is a journalist by training doing stints with major D.C. media outlets, including Gannett News/USA Today and Congressional Quarterly. Peter founded SongMango.com in 2014 as an outlet for his passion for music, particularly live music. Peter has been to hundreds of concerts and festivals, like The Peach, The All Good, Mountain Jam and Lockn'. He's ridden legendary Grateful Dead runs from Ventura County Fairgrounds (CA) to Irvine Meadows (CA) from the Nassau Coliseum (NY) to the Boston Garden. Catch him out on tour! Joshua P. Warren is a world-renowned paranormal researcher and the author of numerous books on the occult and the supernatural.  His latest book is Finding Your Magick: How to Hack Reality Through Lucid Living (2018) George Freund is an independent investigator and the host of the award-winning podcast Conspiracy Cafe. Marc Eliot is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books on popular culture, among them the highly acclaimed Cary Grant, the award-winning Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince, and American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood. He is also the author of To the Limit: The Untold Story of The Eagles.

Richard consults a panel of three psychics who consult with the spirit world in order to solve several great Rock 'n Roll mysteries:  Will Led Zeppelin ever reunite?  When will The Rolling Stones finally retire?  What happened to Brian Jones and Jimi Hendrix?  Why did Manic Street Preachers' lyricist and guitarist Richey Edwards vanish?  Is Tupac Shakur still alive? GUESTS: SLOAN BELLA: Born with psychic-mediumship abilities since birth, by the age of four Sloan learned to articulate nightly visits by other worldly beings, "aliens," and the spirits of those people who had crossed over. By seventeen, Sloan was established as a professional psychic-medium, while deeply entrenched in the street, music vibe, while reading for everyone from Gregory Hines to Don Adams, as well as a large clientele which included street kids and runaways, teachers, musicians, businessmen, actors, strippers, Congressmen, housewives, athletes, and anyone who needed help. Sloan's abilities at one point were even sought after by the head of a major crime family. Sloan was always connected to the other side and one of the most unusual connections was her Mediumship communication with the late Jimi Hendrix, who guided her and aided her work on the streets of Toronto and Hollywood, as a "street psychic" with intuitive guidance to runaway and sexually-exploited children. To this day, Sloan is still reading for people from every walk of life, and for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame musicians who have relied on her medical intuitiveness along with intuitive guidance in every area of their lives. Sloan is a published author and former newspaper stringer writer on metaphysics.  CRAIG HAMILTON-PARKER's career as a psychic medium has been closely associated with his family and wife Jane. Soon after they met, Craig gave up his career as chief executive for an advertising agency and Jane her job as a psychiatric nurse to pursue a career as mediums. To earn a living they gave private readings and Craig wrote psychic news columns and 15 books for the US publisher Sterling, including: What to Do When You Are Dead; Messages from the Universe; Mystic Journey to India. Craig has also written extensively about dream interpretation. His book, The Hidden Meaning of Dreams, became a best seller and he has hosted the US TV show, Nightmares Decoded. Craig and Jane now spend their time spreading their messages of mystical awareness and survival of death. SIOBHAN SMITH is a British medium who has been described by her peers as a genuine and bright spiritual light. Raised by Irish Catholic parents, she grew up in a haunted house. Siobhan, her sister, mother and grandmother were all able to see, hear, and feel the angry spirit in their home who tried for years to get them to move. In the 1980s, Siobhan’s older sister developed childhood leukemia. After she passed away, she reached out to Siobhan from the spirit world and gently pushed and prodded Siobhan to accept and develop her spiritual abilities.  

Richard speaks with a former Manson family member, a rock journalist, and the authors of two chilling biographies of Charlie Manson about the supposed influence The Beatles and their self-titled ninth studio album, aka "The White Album" had on Manson.  Did the McCartney composition, Helter Skelter, convince Manson and his followers that an apocalyptic race war was "coming down fast"?  GUESTS: Simon Wells  has written on film and music for numerous magazines and newspapers including the Guardian; The Times and The Independent. He is a regular contributor to Record Collector, Hotdog, TV Zone, Watch, Total Film, and the Beatles' Book; the group's official magazine. In addition to his writing credits, Simon has researched numerous projects for the likes of the BBC, Channel Four and Virgin, as well as broadcasting live on LBC, ITN and BBC on film and music. the author of numerous rock books, including  Charles Manson: Coming Down Fast Diane Lake was the youngest member of The Manson Family.  She is the author of Member of The Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness that Ended the Sixties. Adam Gorightly is a self-described 'crackpot historian,' and the author of several books, including The Shadow Over Santa Susana: Black Magic, Mind Control and The Manson Family Mythos. Susan Masino been a rock journalist for over thirty years, and has written six books, including, Let There Be Rock: The Story of AC/DC which is now in 11 languages. She helped create and host the 94.1 JJO Local Stage radio show from 1997-2004. She appeared in the Van Halen DVD, The Early Years, and AC/DC Let There Be Rock-The Movie. Her latest book, AC/DC FAQ All That's Left to Know About the Worlds True Rock and Roll Band 

Part Two of an exclusive and candid conversation with British audio engineer, producer, composer Alan Parsons.  Parsons discusses his contribution to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, the phenomenon known as the Dark Side of the Moon and Wizard of Oz mash-up, and his work with The Alan Parsons Project.  Parsons also reveals details of his visit to Roswell, New Mexico where he and his wife learned some shocking news regarding the supposed crash of a UFO in 1947. GUEST:  Alan Parsons was born into a family with an impressive history in entertainment. His great-grandfather was the celebrated actor/manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. His mother was anactress, professional folk singer and harpist and his father, Denys Parsons, an accomplishedpianist and flautist as well as the author of many books. The late Oliver Reed, film actor was a cousin. His uncle, David Tree was also a film and stage actor. Alan had dabbled with live performance in his late teens as a folk/blues acoustic player and as a lead guitarist with a blues band called The Earth in the late sixties in his hometown of London. (Their only album, Elemental surfaced recently and was released by Record Collector Magazinein 2016.) But as soon as he landed a job at the famous Abbey Road Studios at the age of 19, it became clear that the world of sound recording was to dominate his career. Abbey Road:He was fortunate enough to work as assistant engineer on the last two albumsby The Beatles and after he qualified as a fully-fledged recording engineer, he went on to work with Paul McCartney and The Hollies among many others. But it was his contribution as engineer on Pink Floyd’s classic The Dark Side Of The Moon that really got him world attention. That soon led to striking successes as a producer – notably with Pilot’s Magic, John Miles’ Highfly and Music and Steve Harley’s (Come Up And See Me) Make Me Smile. He also produced the hugely successful Year Of The Cat album with Al Stewart and two albums with American prog rock band Ambrosia. In 1975 he met Eric Woolfson who not only became his manager, but joined forces with Alan as a songwriting and performing partner for what became known as The Alan Parsons Project. The APP’s debut album, Tales Of Mystery And Imagination based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe paved the way for a signing to Clive Davis’ newly launched Arista label and a string of hitalbums, namely I Robot (1977), Pyramid (1978), The Turn of a Friendly Card (1980), Eye in the Sky (1982), Ammonia Avenue (1984), Vulture Culture (1985), Stereotomy (1986) and Gaudi (1987).

Part one of an exclusive and candid conversation with British audio engineer, producer, composer Alan Parsons.  Parsons discusses his early years as an assistant audio engineer at Abbey Road Studios; his contribution to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon; his father's skeptical inquiries into the paranormal.  Alan even weighs in on the Paul is Dead legend. GUEST:  Alan Parsons was born into a family with an impressive history in entertainment. His great-grandfather was the celebrated actor/manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. His mother was anactress, professional folk singer and harpist and his father, Denys Parsons, an accomplishedpianist and flautist as well as the author of many books. The late Oliver Reed, film actor was a cousin. His uncle, David Tree was also a film and stage actor. Alan had dabbled with live performance in his late teens as a folk/blues acoustic player and as a lead guitarist with a blues band called The Earth in the late sixties in his hometown of London. (Their only album, Elemental surfaced recently and was released by Record Collector Magazinein 2016.) But as soon as he landed a job at the famous Abbey Road Studios at the age of 19, it became clear that the world of sound recording was to dominate his career. Abbey Road:He was fortunate enough to work as assistant engineer on the last two albumsby The Beatles and after he qualified as a fully-fledged recording engineer, he went on to work with Paul McCartney and The Hollies among many others. But it was his contribution as engineer on Pink Floyd’s classic The Dark Side Of The Moon that really got him world attention. That soon led to striking successes as a producer – notably with Pilot’s Magic, John Miles’ Highfly and Music and Steve Harley’s (Come Up And See Me) Make Me Smile. He also produced the hugely successful Year Of The Cat album with Al Stewart and two albums with American prog rock band Ambrosia. In 1975 he met Eric Woolfson who not only became his manager, but joined forces with Alan as a songwriting and performing partner for what became known as The Alan Parsons Project. The APP’s debut album, Tales Of Mystery And Imagination based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe paved the way for a signing to Clive Davis’ newly launched Arista label and a string of hitalbums, namely I Robot (1977), Pyramid (1978), The Turn of a Friendly Card (1980), Eye in the Sky (1982), Ammonia Avenue (1984), Vulture Culture (1985), Stereotomy (1986) and Gaudi (1987).  

Las Vegas, Nevada's most famous unsolved crime- the murder of Tupac Shakur - is re-examined by a former crime reporter with the Las Vegas Sun, and a former LAPD detective and multi-agency task force. GUESTS: Cathy Scott a Los Angeles Times bestselling author, investigative journalist and blogger for Psychology Today, has written a dozen narrative non-fiction books.  Her work has appeared in New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Reuters, and The Las Vegas Sun. She is best known for penning The Killing of Tupac Shakur and Murder of a Mafia Daughter. Her lastest book is The Crime Book released by DK Books in May 2017.  She taught journalism for five years at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Recent TV appearances include, Dateline NBC, The Today Show and Vanity Fair's crime series. Greg Kading is a former LAPD homicide investigator. He was the lead detective in the homicide investigations of rap icons Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. when the cases were reopened between 2006-2009. After his retirement he wrote a book that included all the new evidence that they had found during those investigations. That book later formed the basis for the documentary Murder Rap: Inside the Biggie and Tupac Murders (2015), which will receive a worldwide release on Netflix in the spring of 2016. Greg Kading is a retired LAPD detective who spent the majority of his career assigned to federal task forces investigating complex criminal organizations. Greg's field of expertise was drug, gang, and homicide investigations. In 2010, Greg retired from the LAPD's elite Robbery Homicide Division after 25 years of service.In 2010, Greg published his book, Murder Rap: The Untold Story of the Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur Murder Investigations. In 2018, the book was used as the basis for a limited scripted series on USA Network and Netflix; Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. Greg served as Co-Executive Producer on the project.  

Part Two of a two-part series. Did Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, really commit suicide, or was he murdered? A Seattle-based independent investigative journalist who was the first to suggest homicide; the co-author of two books alleging Cobain was murdered; and a music correspondent/PR consultant sift through the evidence. GUESTS: Richard Lee is the creator of Now See It Person to Person: Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, his cable TV documentary on this homicide and related aspects of Seattle politics and policing. Lee visited the Cobain residence location on the day his body was discovered, and aired his first program only five days later, originally titling the programs “Was Kurt Cobain Murdered?”  Lee began his efforts as a television journalist with a weekly series on Seattle politics and crime in 1993, Now See It Person to Person, which he then slightly re-tooled to focus on the Cobain homicide. This series of more than 600 editions is still seen locally in archival and new editions, and is becoming more widely seen online. With his website that began in 1995, Lee is something of an internet pioneer, probably the first American journalist to launch an independent investigative website of longstanding status. He is currently pursing appeals in a lawsuit that seeks to gain release of over 50 photographs from the Cobain crime scene and related documents, which he says will prove that the official investigation was fraudulent. Max Wallace is a recipient of Rolling Stone magazine¹s Award for Investigative Journalism; he is also a documentary filmmaker. In 1998, he coauthored the international bestseller Who Killed Kurt Cobain? with Ian Halperin. In 2005 Wallace and Halperin co-authored Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain. He is also the author of Muhammad Ali¹s Greatest Fight: Cassius Clay vs. the United States of America, and The American Axis: Ford, Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich. His first documentary film, Too Colorful for the League, was nominated for a Gemini Award (Canada¹s equivalent of an Emmy). Max has been a guest columnist for the Sunday New York Times, and contributed to the BBC. Eric Alper is the founder of Eric Alper PR firm after being the Director of Media Relations and Label Relations for eOne Music Canada for 18 years. Eric has been named to Billboard Magazine, Paste Magazine and The National Post's best on social media. He has over a million followers on Twitter and  over 20,000 fans on Facebook while ThatEricAlper now receives over 125,000 hits a week.  Past and current clients on the PR side include Bob Geldof, Judy Collins, Randy Bachman, The Cult, Merle Haggard, John Prine, Ringo Starr, Slash, The Wiggles, Bush, Steve Earle, Snoop Dogg, The Smashing Pumpkins, Ray Charles, Little Steven, Sinead O'Connor, Sesame Street among hundreds of others over his 20 years in the music industry.

Did Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, really commit suicide, or was he murdered? A Seattle-based independent investigative journalist who was the first to suggest homicide; the co-author of two books alleging Cobain was murdered; and a music correspondent/PR consultant sift through the evidence. GUESTS: Richard Lee is the creator of Now See It Person to Person: Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, his cable TV documentary on this homicide and related aspects of Seattle politics and policing. Lee visited the Cobain residence location on the day his body was discovered, and aired his first program only five days later, originally titling the programs “Was Kurt Cobain Murdered?”  Lee began his efforts as a television journalist with a weekly series on Seattle politics and crime in 1993, Now See It Person to Person, which he then slightly re-tooled to focus on the Cobain homicide. This series of more than 600 editions is still seen locally in archival and new editions, and is becoming more widely seen online. With his website that began in 1995, Lee is something of an internet pioneer, probably the first American journalist to launch an independent investigative website of longstanding status. He is currently pursing appeals in a lawsuit that seeks to gain release of over 50 photographs from the Cobain crime scene and related documents, which he says will prove that the official investigation was fraudulent. Max Wallace is a recipient of Rolling Stone magazine¹s Award for Investigative Journalism; he is also a documentary filmmaker. In 1998, he coauthored the international bestseller Who Killed Kurt Cobain? with Ian Halperin. In 2005 Wallace and Halperin co-authored Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain. He is also the author of Muhammad Ali¹s Greatest Fight: Cassius Clay vs. the United States of America, and The American Axis: Ford, Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich. His first documentary film, Too Colorful for the League, was nominated for a Gemini Award (Canada¹s equivalent of an Emmy). Max has been a guest columnist for the Sunday New York Times, and contributed to the BBC. Eric Alper is the founder of Eric Alper PR firm after being the Director of Media Relations and Label Relations for eOne Music Canada for 18 years. Eric has been named to Billboard Magazine, Paste Magazine and The National Post's best on social media. He has over a million followers on Twitter and  over 20,000 fans on Facebook while ThatEricAlper now receives over 125,000 hits a week.  Past and current clients on the PR side include Bob Geldof, Judy Collins, Randy Bachman, The Cult, Merle Haggard, John Prine, Ringo Starr, Slash, The Wiggles, Bush, Steve Earle, Snoop Dogg, The Smashing Pumpkins, Ray Charles, Little Steven, Sinead O'Connor, Sesame Street among hundreds of others over his 20 years in the music industry.