Richard Marx walked into the studio where Kurt Kelly, the late Rick The Bass Payer Rosas [Neil Young, Joe Walsh), and Joe Walsh (Soloist, James Gang and The Eagles) where they were doing a live morning show on at the air at ABC Los Angeles, 95.5 KLOS and handed Kurt Kelly a new enabled album to play a new track with Joe Walsh. Kurt bit the bait thinking it was the forthcoming Hell Freezes Over Album from The Eagles. In fact when Kelly played it, Joe Walsh, Randy Meisner and Timothy B. Schmit were on the record, however it was the new solo album and the track was Richard's first hit. Kurt Kelly was the person to first play on the air and break Richard Marx's "It Don't Mean Nothing".
Richard Marx was introduced to Kurt Kelly at that time head of the ABC Owned and Operated KLOS in Los Angeles. When Kurt Kelly was hosting the morning show live on the air with Joe Walsh of The Eagles, Richard came in as a studio messager to deliver a new record that had Joe Walsh on it. The recorder turned out to be Richard Marx blockbuster, It don;t mean nothing. Kelly was the first person to play the song on the air in the world.
Kurt Kelly was asked by Richard Marx to host his first live and worldwide television concert special on MTV. The global broadcast at the time had a global audience of over 1 billion people worldwide with Kurt Kelly hosting the Richard Marx concert. Minutes before the live show,m Kurt was told as he was walking on stage, there were no teleprompters [as MTV cut them from the budget] and that he had to ad-lib a 15-minute monologue. Kelly rose to the challenge and started roasting MTV and Captial Record heads who0 arrived in limos and had to cut the production budget to offset the extra expenses. Kurt brought the open to a head with thunderous applause and the concert open with Richard Marx Live and Worldwide on MTV.
Did you know that Richard Marx walked into the studio where Kurt Kelly, the late Rick The Bass Payer Rosas [Neil Young, Joe Walsh), and Joe Walsh (Soloist, James Gang and The Eagles) where they were doing a live morning show on at the air at ABC Los Angeles, 95.5 KLOS and handed Kurt Kelly a new enabled album to play a new track with Joe Walsh. Kurt bit the bait thinking it was the forthcoming Hell Freezes Over Album from The Eagles. In fact when Kelly played it, Joe Walsh, Randy Meisner and Timothy B. Schmit were on the record, however it was the new solo album and the track was Richard's first hit. Kurt Kelly was the person to first play on the air and break Richard Marx's "It Don't Mean Nothing".