All New Conversations With The Legends Of Contemporary Music

All The Songs and All The Stories

In Their Own Words

Interviews by 2X Grammy Award Winning A&R Executive & Producer Pete Ganbarg

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Jim Peterik (Survivor/Ides of March)

Jim Peterik wrote the book on songwriting. Literally. He's the co-author of Songwriting For Dummies, now in its 2nd edition.  More famously — he’s also the author of some of the best known songs of the last 50 years, including “Eye Of The Tiger,” which Jim co-wrote with Frankie Sullivan, for their band Survivor. Jim and Frankie co-wrote 6 more Top 20 hits for Survivor before Jim left the band in 1996.Prior to Survivor, Jim was the main songwriter and lead singer of the band Ides Of March whose smash “Vehicle” made it all the way to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the spring of 1970.Jim’s also written hit songs with .38 Special, Sammy Hagar and The Beach Boys and continues to make music and tour with many of his different band projects today — including Ides Of March, World Stage and Pride Of Lions.

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Pete Ganbarg

Rock & Roll High School is an interview series that spotlights some of the most important figures in the history of contemporary music.

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