Interview with Debbie Gibson for KHOP radio 1990
Moon Trent – Interviewer- identified as MT: Debbie Gibson- Interviewee- identified as DG:
MT: I’m here, can you hear me?
DG: I can barely hear you, just faintly.
MT: This happened with Bette Midler last week, and we are still having a problem with our phones. Um, my name is Moon Trent, actually I am the producer here at 104, and Debbie, can you hear me?
DG: Uh-huh-
MT: How old are you?
DG: 20. MT: Okay, I am going to be 20 next month, so we are kinda in the same age group, okay. The question that I have, and I have a couple of em, like my friends say that when they hear the name “Debbie Gibson” they think pop-queen type of thing like that, Tiffany, but you know what, I was working at a record store over the summer and I got a chance to read your book, Out of the Blue.
DG: Mmm-hmm.
MT: And I really respect you as an artist. You have got so much talent, you have got so much going for you, and I just wanted to tell you that not everybody in my age group is you know, if they take the time to really find out what you are all about they would really realize that you have got It. I mean you really have got it.
DG: Thank you.
MT: I just wanted to take the time to say that to you.
DG: Well thank you.
MT: A couple of other questions that I have for you. I have read that you wanted to do a duet with Billy Joel, whatever came of that? I heard you got to meet him and whatever, but….
DG: Yeah, I performed with him live twice actually.
MT: Have you really?
DG: That was real exciting. I haven’t recorded anything with him yet.
MT: Yeah.
DG: And I would say that maybe for the next album. This whole year he was on tour, so it was kind of impossible to put anything together with him.
MT: Uh-huh.
DG: But, like I said, I have met him and he is aware that I want to work with him, and so maybe for the next album, but I would still love to do that.
MT: Umm, what instruments do you play besides piano.
DG: I play drums by ear, a little guitar, a little flute, kinda a little of everything, but piano is really my main thing.
MT: Okay, one other question that I have. Since I did go through and read that book, I went back and I listened to some of your albums, and I was really, really impressed by “We Could Be Together,” the cover of-, the campfire mix of that. I have a band called Pale out here and we are real interested in covering that song. How do we go about doing that?
DG: ( laughs) Well, if you are going to just cover it at the live shows that you can go ahead and do it.
MT: We can go ahead and do it live. We have Debbie Gibson’s permission to do this song live?
DG: Yes.
MT: Okay.
DG: Go ahead.
MT: If we kinda want to go about recording it, what do we do? We have to get a hold of the publishers and whatnot?
DG: Yeah, probably through Atlantic.
MT: And then maybe we could hire you to be our producer, maybe?
DG: (laughs)
MT: If we could afford yah?
DG: Hey, if I have the time to do it. It would be fun.
MT: Well maybe we will have to get in touch with you. On the cover scene, is there any song that you would like to cover? Or do you cover any live?
DG: Let’s see, well, um, on tour I have done “In The Still Of he Night” and “Crocodile Rock…”
MT: Have you really?
DG: and “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow.” Those are the songs that I have covered, and also a lot of Motown songs. “Stop In The Name Of Love” and a lot of Jackson Five.
MT: These you do live?
DG: I have cover songs on both my tours, and I change it each year and I would like to do that again this year.
MT: Well that sounds great. I have never gotten a chance to see one of your shows, but hopefully if you are out here in the Central Valley in California, or San Francisco, I can come out and take a look at your show and maybe meet you, Debbie.
DG: Okay.
MT: Okay, Thanks, I am glad I got to talk to you. Thank you.
DG: Thank you.