Episode
1988’s Greatest Hits Countdown: Icehouse, Gloria Estefan, Richard Marx, Foreigner & Terence Trent D’Arby
- Podcast
- Professor of Rock
- Published
- May 20, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 1955
- Processing state
not_requested
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/professor-of-rock-7272370/episodes/1988-s-greatest-hits-countdown-icehouse-gloria-estefan-richard-marx-foreigner-terence-trent-d-arby/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/professor-of-rock-7272370/1988-s-greatest-hits-countdown-icehouse-gloria-estefan-richard-marx-foreigner-terence-trent-d-arby.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
Coming up, we’re telling the stories of songs that shaped one of the best years in popular music, songs that define today's year more than any other... including Icehouse's Electric Blue that was inspired while an artist was nervously walking along a topless beach. Plus, the breakout song Wishing Well by Terrance Trent D'Arby, who thought the industry was conspiring against him so that he wouldn’t become bigger than Michael Jackson… Then one bad interview was the last straw and killed his career virtually overnight. Also, a wishful smash by Richard Marx, an artist who broke the record for consecutive top 5 hits, even though every record label had initially passed on him… Plus, Gloria Estefan, the legendary artist everyone forgets about, even though this icon had sold 100 million records and had 2 dozen hits. And finally, the Foreigner song that Lou Gramm despised so much, he tried to sabotage it by delivering a lukewarm, uninspired performance. But everyone praised it, and it was a major hit… Let's do it. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .