Some people have a vision of greatness… and they’ll risk everything…even their high school diploma….to make it a reality …..a lesson in positive projection… …on Mark and Kristin’s Behind the Song! Click Here

Today is the story of two friends who sat down to write a love song together…and by the time they were finished, they’d admitted that they had feelings for each other and became a couple for life. The story is on Mark and Kristin’s Behind the Song! Click Here

Today we have one pop idol paying tribute to another pop idol with a song that had three lives of it’s own in three consecutive decades…the story is right after the break on Mark and Kristin’s Behind the Song!  candle in the wind

Today we have a story of a young girl from El Centro who managed to score top ten hits as a solo act…in the 60’s…the 70’s…..the 80’s….and the 90’s….She’s one of the most versatile and dynamic stars of our generation….and she’s on Mark and Kristin’s Behind the Song! Click Here

Now, you may’ve heard the adage, “one man’s leftovers is another man’s treasure.”  Well, that was certainly the case for today’s story.  You see, in 1985, writer and producer Patrick Leonard- who went on to write hits for Peter Cetera and Jewel- was asked to compose the theme for a Paramount movie called “Fire With Fire.”  At the time, Patrick was the musical director for Madonna’s “Like A Virgin” tour, and the singer had agreed to write lyrics to Patrick’s music.  But executives at Paramount didn’t like Patrick’s work and found someone else to score the film.  Well, Patrick told Madonna about the situation, and she liked the theme he’d composed and felt it would be great for a movie that was being made by her husband-at-the time, Sean Penn.  So Madonna quickly wrote words for it, sang the song in one take, and took a tape over to Sean.  Later, the actor called Patrick saying he loved the track and wanted to use it in his film, “At Close Range.”  Not only that, the director of that movie let Patrick Leonard score the rest of the film too.  Now, when it was time to make a record of the song Patrick and Madonna had written, Patrick kept her one-take rough vocal and just changed the music around it.  The result was a #1 hit for Madonna.  Not bad for a piece of music that was rejected by a major studio.  It’s Madonna’s ‘Live To Tell’…today’s Mark and Kristin’s Behind the Song on KOST 103.5!

Live To Tell - Madonna

So, what were you doing when you were nine years old?   Banging your drum sticks on the kitchen counter, making the whole house crazy?  Well this morning’s artist on coast 103’s behind the song was busy playing guitar in his father’s band when he was only nine.  From there he went on to form three top-ten charting groups, as well as burst into mega-stardom with a blue-eyed soul sound in the 1980’s.  A prolific hit-maker, and a musical boy-genius, we’ll have the story of teenage success on Mark and Kristin’s Behind the Song! Click Here