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The extraordinary "Modern Times" was Latin Quarter*s debut album in the 1980s. It contained the UK Top 20 hit Radio Africa. With Latin Quarter lyrics are not just lyrics. They are stories, history lessons, social criticism, and pure poetry. There is hardly a song by the band without a great story behind it. So let us tell the stories behind this first album and how the band came to be...

As an A&R man at Epic Records, Tom Werman helped introduce the world to REO Speedwagon, Boston, Ted Nugent, and Cheap Trick; he also discovered KISS, Rush, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, but his record label passed on all of them. Then, as an independent producer, he oversaw landmark albums by Mötley Crüe, Twisted Sister, Lita Ford, Jeff Beck, Poison, and many more. All in all, his record-making resume includes twenty-three gold- or platinum-selling albums and cumulative sales of more than fifty-two million copies.