Everybody Quote by Eric Carmen

The Raspberries was formed as kind of a reaction to prog rock, which we didn't like. 'Let's bring some songwriting and harmonies back to…

— Eric Carmen

The Raspberries had recorded some ballads on every one of our albums, but after 'Go All The Way' was successful Capital pretty much wanted…

— Eric Carmen

The Raspberries were together two years for one century. It was a very successful failure of a group.

— Eric Carmen

It wasn't until after Raspberries, Big Star and Badfinger came to exist that powerpop became a genre. In each case, I suspect Pete Ham,…

— Eric Carmen

The Rascals are something else. They're up there with the Beatles, and Stones and Byrds. That level of musicality. They have a real chemistry.…

— Steven Van Zandt

What people fail to realize is that any album we did, really, 90 percent of it reflected the songs people brought in. If someone…

— Dennis DeYoung

It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a rock band…

— Bucky Pope

“Most of the songs on 'Underneath the Colours' were written in a relatively short space of time. Most bands shudder at the prospect of…

— Michael Hutchence

Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans…

— Dan Hill

There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.

— Joe Elliott

Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that stuff, but…

— Stephen Malkmus

I'm not quite sure. Probably because "Hanky Panky" and "I Think We're Alone Now" had more to do with it than anything else. For…

— Tommy James