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Oct 2021
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Music Booker Jim Pitt Revisits Radiohead...

Team Coco & Earwolf
About this episode

Legendary music booker Jim Pitt joins writers Mike Sweeney and Jessie Gaskell to discuss Conan’s most memorable musical guests. He talks about booking Radiohead as the first Late Night musical act, David Bowie’s willingness to perform sketch comedy, and how Disturbed’s performance of The Sound of Silence became the biggest Conan clip ever.

Visit Team Coco’s Spotify account here to check out the year-by-year playlists of musical acts from 1993 to 2016.

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