Mark Hudson

Brother in Arts 1987

Mark Hudson, Village Recording Studios, LA 2004

Do you have a musical hero?

I had a hero—I still do. John Lennon. The day he was murdered, I was in a recording studio with Harry Nilsson. He got a bit hysterical and ran out of the building. My brothers and I had just finished an album for Elektra, and John was working on Double Fantasy. I had asked for special thanks to John on our album, because he had been such an inspiration to me. I even quote him regularly—“How can we go forward when we don’t know which way we’re facing?” He said things that still make a difference in people’s lives.

I could never get over my awe of John, but we did have some interesting conversations. We were in a club one night and he was just coming up with wells of information. I asked him what was their worst song—which one do you hate? I had to know. He looked at me and said, “’Run for Your Life’—it was a piece of shit.”