Ep373: Terri Nunn of Berlin
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Terri Nunn of Berlin discusses the rare and collectable vinyl of her career, growing up in LA, early punk scene, her multiple hits as well as the global #1 smash "Take My Breath Away", auditioning for Star Wars & much more!
Topics include:
- Terri's record collection
- Terri's family owned a few record stores
- Well known customers who shopped there
- Hiding records from the public shoppers
- Growing up in LA, wanting to entertain
- Social issues with entertainers
- Records and performers who inspired Terri
- Discovering the punk community
- Getting into Electronic Music
- 1st album is all Prophet V and TR-808
- Memories of making "A Matter of Time" private press single
- "Pleasure Victim" initially on MAO Records
- Moving from Enigma to Geffen
- Memories of working w David Geffen
- The pressure going into "Love Life"
- Challenges with Terri being focal point of band
- Working w Georgio Moroder on Top Gun theme
- Recording of "Take My Breath Away"
- Life changes after having a global #1 hit
- John rejoining band and communicating about prior challenges
- The collectable records of Berlin & Terri's career
- Terri's involvement in cover art, videos
- The concept of cover of "Pleasure Victim"
- Terri's "Star Wars" audition
- Berlin's "Strings Attached" vinyl
- Interview wrap up
Berlin's "Strings Attached" on vinyl here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Terry Nunn for Berlin, and you are listening to Nate on The Vinyl Guide. |
| 0:06.3 | Oh, that's a message I won't soon forget. |
| 0:08.8 | Hey, everyone, happy 2023. |
| 0:11.7 | It's Nate back from an extended holiday break and kicking off yet another year of podcast episodes for the Vinyl Guide, |
| 0:19.2 | the podcast for record collectors and music nerds, |
| 0:21.9 | and I hope everyone listening had a great break, spent time with family, friends, and of course |
| 0:27.7 | the record player. And for those of you following my social medias, you probably know I spent |
| 0:33.0 | quite a bit of time in November and December in the United States. I visited a lot of great record shops, |
| 0:39.1 | spent time with some fantastic friends and collectors and dealers, and I even saw some great |
| 0:44.2 | live shows. So a big shout out to everyone who I connected with on my travels, and I arrived |
| 0:50.4 | back in Sydney just in time for Christmas Day and a positive COVID test. So, yeah, |
| 0:57.1 | it wasn't too bad this time around, but it did force me to limit my activities. However, I am now |
| 1:03.0 | back and ready to roll and have a great new episode for you today. Today, I'm sharing a conversation I had with Terry Nunn of Berlin, and she is an |
| 1:15.2 | absolute delight. Berlin is one of those bands I still enjoy listening to, especially those early |
| 1:21.6 | synth-heavy recordings, very quirky, very earwormy, and they also have some very collectible records in the career of Berlin, |
| 1:30.4 | especially the early releases. They've got a private press record, which we talked to Terry about today. |
| 1:35.8 | We also discussed the record shop that Terry and her family owned, working with David Geffen, Georgio Moroder, |
| 1:43.6 | the global number one smash song, |
| 1:46.4 | Take My Breath Away for the Top Gun movie, Terry's audition for the Princess Learol in the original Star Wars, |
| 1:53.0 | and lots more. We cover it all today. Plus, we talk about the latest Berlin record, |
| 1:58.0 | strings attached, orchestral renditions of classic Berlin songs available on vinyl |
| 2:03.8 | at www.b-dub-dubberlinpage.com. |
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