Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried. This is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast with my co-hosts, Frank Santobodre.

Our guest this week is a musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, occasional actor, theatrical composer, Rack on Tour, and a genuine rock and roll icon.

He started out playing the accordion to police his mother and just a few decades later he was selling millions of records and albums and performing to sold out arenas all over the world as both the solo artists and a founding member of the creative voice behind the wildly popular pop and rock band sticks.

You know he's the sting voice from hit songs like Lady, The Grand Illusion, Mr. Roboto, Babe, this is the time show me the way, don't let it end the best of times and come sail away among others.

He was also the band's most successful writer composing seven of the band's eighth Billboard Top 10 Singles as well as a solo Top 10 single.

His sense of showmanship and his grandiose theatrical style heavily influenced the group's sound in the 1970s.

He sold the release seven well received solo live albums including a Broadway standards album.

As well as a theatrical performer he's starting productions of Jesus Christ's Superstar and composed an original stage musical based on the hunchback of Notre Dame.

But there's more. His recent YouTube videos made right in his living room and created to provide comfort to those affected by the current pandemic have garnered over a million views and generated thousands of responses.

And his brand new solo album 26 East, volume 1 will be released on May 20th.

Please welcome to the show an artist of many interest and talent and a man who says that growing up he wanted to either play Centafield for the Chicago White Sox or be Jerry Lois.

The pride of grossed by Emilio Dennis DeYoung. Oh my God Frank, give Gilbert a break that introduction was wrong in my career.

Were some of those things true Dennis? None of it I didn't even know what you were talking about. By the way I've got nothing to add to that. See you guys goodnight.

I mean I don't know how you read all that stuff. Oh, thanks. Thanks though. Oh, I know.

Gilbert likes to say they double as an obituary. You forgot to mention I'm kind to animals. I'll start all over and include it.

Yeah, please go from Paradise Theater anywhere in there. What about this Jerry Lois business Dennis? You're in the midst of a fan a lifelong fan and somebody who knew Jerry.

Yeah, I mean I was in an elevator Gilbert one day with my little daughter and it was in the house. It was one some hotel in L.A. I just stepped there and he was there and he had a lot of things I think at the time.

And so he turned to my son. He turned my daughter said how you're so beautiful and I stood there and I never said a word because I thought to myself that's Jerry Lois shut up. I didn't know what to say to him because I wanted to be him.

He he's like one of those people when you see him in person you go no he can't exist in real life.

Yes, here's you did Gilbert you didn't know this but this this song was originally written for one of his movies ready.

Lady. Have you done that in concert Dennis?

I have done I don't know if I've ever done an concert for many years I use it as a routine and radio shows because nobody nobody expects me to be funny they expect me to be high I'm a rock star I'm posing and very serious.

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