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Vini "Mad Dog" Lopez in a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame from his time playing drums with Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band. He appeared on the albums Greetings from Asbury Park. N.J. and The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle. After leaving The Boss, he has played in numerous Jersey Shore and Florida bands including the Wonderful Winos and the Hula Hula Boys.  

Thaao is best known for his dual role as Tony DiMera and Andre DiMera on Days of Our Lives. He also appeared on Santa Barbara, and General Hospital where he played Victor Cassadine. He has also appeared on many major crime shows such as Kojak, Cannon, Hart to Hart, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe and Magnum P.I. plus he starred in the late 80's remake of Mission Impossible. An accomplished stage actor and master storyteller he has released book two books and his podcast, The Lost Treasures, will debut in September.

Shannon DeVido has recently been seen co-starring in Lucky Hank that stars Bob Oedenkirk and High Desert which stars Patricia Arquette. Other credits include Manifest, Insatiable, Difficult People, Law & Order: Special Victims, Best Summer Ever and The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.

Kevin Rowland is the lead singer for Dexys Midnight Runners. (Now called Dexys.) They are an English pop rock band from Birmingham, with soul influences, who achieved major commercial success in the early to mid-1980s. They are best known in the UK for their songs Come on Eileen and Geno, both of which peaked at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart, as well as six other top-20 singles. Come On Eileen also topped the US Billboard Hot 100, and with extensive airplay on MTV they are associated with the second British Invasion.

Elie Honig joined CNN as a legal analyst in 2018 and is the best-selling author of two books, Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor's Code and Corrupted the Justice Department and the latest, Untouchable: How Powerful  People Get Away with It, as well as the host of the podcast, Up Against the Mob. He has also worked for the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York, specializing in prosecuting members of the mafia and he  rose to Deputy Chief of the Organized Crime Unit before moving over to the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office as Deputy Director of the Division of Criminal Justice.  

Long regarded as one of the premier musicians in the world, David Sancious was an original member of Bruce Springsteen 's E Street Band, toured and recorded with Peter Gabriel, Sting, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Santana, Seal and a long list of A-level musicians. He also created groundbreaking music with his band Tone. He is a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and as a solo artist he has released ten albums.

Tommy Stinson's group Cowboys in the Campfire recently released the album Wronger. He is the former bassist of The Replacements and Guns N' Roses (1998-2014) and has had a solo career and been in Soul Asylum, Perfect and Bash & Pop.

Liz Vassey is best known for her roles as Emily Ann Sago on All My Children, Captain Liberty in The Tick, Wendy Simms in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Nikki in the Web series Nikki & Nora. She has been a regular or recurring character in many other series including Maximum Bob, Brotherly Love, Necessary Roughness and Two and a Half Men. She has also guest starred or co-starred in many other shows such as Castle, Dharma & Greg, Dawson's Creek and Early Edition. Lately she has been writing and selling screenplays and TV projects, produced and directed the documentary The Human Race and acted in the last season of A Million Little Things and the two-part series finale of NCIS: Los Angeles.

George Lynch is a guitarist, best known for his work with the hard rock band Dokken and his post-Dokken solo band Lynch Mob. He is considered one of the most famous and influential 1980s metal guitarists and is known for his unique playing style and sound. He is ranked No. 47 on "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" by Guitar World magazine and No. 10 on "Top 10 Metal Guitarists of All Time" by Gibson.

Mike Peters returns to CooperTalk.  Mike is best known for being the lead singer for The Alarm. Since 1981The Alarm that has had 17 Top 50 UK singles, a host of successful albums and over 6 million album sales worldwide. Following an initial breakthrough in the USA with 1983's The Stand along with Sixty Eight Guns that entered into the UK chart soon after, The Alarm headlined their own Spirit of '86 Concert before 26,000 fans in Los Angeles, that was beamed around the world via MTV's first ever live global satellite broadcast. Other hits of the band include Sold Me Down the River, Declaration, Rain in the Summertime, Rescue Me and Blaze of Glory.

As a founding member of the ground breaking Bauhaus, multi-instrumentalist Daniel Ash has distinguished himself in the world of contemporary music. He later went on to form Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets. Bauhaus were an English rock band formed in Northampton in 1978. Known for their dark image and gloomy sound, they are one of the pioneers of gothic rock, although they mixed many genres, including dub, glam rock, psychedelia, and funk. Love and Rockets were formed in 1985 by former Bauhaus members Daniel Ash, David J and Kevin Haskins after that group split in 1983. Ash and Haskins had recorded and performed in another band, Tones on Tail, between 1982 and 1984. 

Jeff is currently the bassist for Foreigner. He joined the band in 2004. He was also a member of melodic metal bands Dokken, Dio and MSG. Additionally, he played in the band Wild Horses which also featured drummer James Kottack (Scorpions, Kingdom Come), guitarist Rick Steier (Kingdom Come, Warrant), and singer John Levesque. He formed his own progressive metal group called War and Peace in 1989, handling all of the vocals, along with his instrumental work. He has also acted, having appeared in the movie Rock Star. He played bassist Jorgen, of the fictional band Steel Dragon. The film also featured performances by musicians such as Zakk Wylde, Jason Bonham, Myles Kennedy, Brian Vander Ark, Blas Elias and Nick Catanese. He played in the film’s soundtrack and served as Musical Director for the film. His latest project is the band Revolution Saints who recently released an album.

Actor Craig Bierko’s film roles include Timothy in the 1996 action film The Long Kiss Goodnight which he credits for being cast in darkly humorous roles such as Max Baer in Cinderella Man opposite Russell Crowe, Tom Ryan in Scary Movie 4 (spoofing Tom Cruise throughout the film), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and The Thirteenth Floor. In 2000 Bierko made his Broadway debut as Professor Harold Hill in Susan Stroman's critically acclaimed revival of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man. He played “the jazz guy” Ray King, a love interest for Carrie Bradshaw in the fourth season of Sex and the City, attorney Jeffrey Coho on season three of the ABC television series Boston Legal and one of four newly divorced friends on Fox’s short-lived Unhitched. He was cast as Dave Lister in the pilot for the American TV version of the British show Red Dwarf and has appeared twice on TV's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - first as Andy Eckerson, a United States Deputy Marshal who is working with the SVU (and ex-flame Det.

Michael Lehmann is probably most noted for directing the black comedy Heathers. He also directed 40 Days and 40 Nights, The Truth About Cats & Dogs, Hudson Hawk, Meet the Applegates, Airheads and Because I Said So. He also directs for television and has worked on the short-lived HBO comedy series The Comeback and NBC's The West Wing. He has guest directed on The Larry Sanders Show, Watching Ellie and Century City. Other credits include Big Love, True Blood, Californication, Snowfall, The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window, Veronica Mars, Jessica Jones, Blunt Talk, Tyrant, House of Lies and many more.

Nik Kershaw exploded onto the UK pop scene in 1984 as a solo artist. A string of global hit singles – including ‘Wouldn’t it Be Good’, ‘The Riddle’ and his biggest hit, ‘I Won’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me’ – helped to propel him to 62 weeks on the UK Singles Chart through 1984 and 1985 – beating every other solo artist, together with performing at Live Aid. After stepping out of the limelight to concentrate on writing and producing, Nik wrote Chesney Hawkes’s ‘The One and Only’ and has collaborated with Elton John (including writing and producing one of the songs on the Duets album), Sia, Gary Barlow and Bonnie Tyler, whilst continuing to release his own well-reviewed studio albums, featuring his distinctive voice and highly personal lyrics. He also regularly plays festivals and performs live to his loyal and fervent fanbase.

Brian Thompson played the villainous Night Slasher in the 1986 film Cobra. His first named role was on Werewolf, a horror series that ran during Fox's inaugural broadcasting year of 1987–1988. Thompson has played several characters in the Star Trek franchise—the most notable being the Klingon Lieutenant Klag in which he informed Riker that “Gagh is always best when served live”, the Alien Bounty Hunter on The X-Files and Eddie Fiori on Kindred: The Embraced. In 2014, he produced, wrote and starred in the B-movie parody The Extendables.

Joe Genaro is a musician and songwriter, best known for the punk rock group The Dead Milkmen. The Dead Milkmen formed in 1983, evolving out of a home-recording project with a mythological back story that Genaro had begun in 1979. The members of the group regularly employed pseudonyms, and Genaro most frequently called himself "Joe Jack Talcum" (stemming from the character of Jack Talcum that Genaro had imagined as the leader of the band in their mythology) in the context of the group, although he also used the pseudonyms "Butterfly Fairweather" and "Jasper Thread" on certain records. The band's debut LP, Big Lizard in My Backyard was released in 1985, and their initial twelve-year career saw some college radio and MTV success, notably surrounding singles "Bitchin' Camaro" (1986) and "Punk Rock Girl" (1988). Genaro acted as the group's guitarist, co-lead vocalist and co-songwriter, and occasionally played keyboards and piano. The band originally disbanded in 1995 but have reunited since. 

Vincent Pastore is best known for his portrayal of Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on the HBO series The Sopranos. Other credits include Goodfellas, State of Grace, Awakenings, Carlito's Way, The Jerky Boys, Law & Order, Bull, Gotti, The Practice, Pair of Kings, Hawaii Five-0, Wu-Tang: An American Saga and Gravesend. He also has been on Broadway in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway and has directed stage productions. 

Mike Tramp is best known as the lead singer from the band White Lion. Mainly active in the 1980s and early 1990s, they released their debut album Fight to Survive in 1985. The band achieved success with their No. 8 hit Wait and No. 3 hit When the Children Cry from their second album, the double platinum selling Pride. The band continued their success with their third album, Big Game which achieved gold status and their fourth album Mane Attraction. White Lion disbanded in 1992. Since then, Mike has been in the band Freak of Nature and also has had a solo career and toured with different line-ups of White Lion.  

Ryan O'Nan is best known for his roles as Donno on the ABC hit Big Sky and as King George USA's Queen of the South. (He also is a producer for both.) Other TV credits include recurring roles in such shows as Ray Donovan, Fargo, Swimming with Sharks and Blackout and guest star spots on Animal Kingdom, The Last Tycoon, Proof, Person of Interest, The Blacklist and Wu-Tang: An American Saga. (Which he was a producer/writer on.)