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Living Colour Says MMR Saved the Band During Make or Break Moment

According to a story Vernon Reid shared on Twitter this week.

Living Colour perform at Preston & Steve’s Camp Out for Hunger 2013. 772,461 pounds of food (386 TONS) and $241,371.43 was collected for Philabundace.

Please enjoy the following live performances from the show:

Living Colour founding member Vernon Reid is very active on Twitter. This week he shared a fact about the band's first single, clearing up that it was actually "Middle Man," not "Cult of Personality" as many people (and Wikipedia) may think:

The band put everything on the line with that song and if it didn't work out that could have been the beginning of end for the New York based rockers.  Twitter user @laughingat45 replied to the factoid with an interesting question, did MTV or FM radio break the song first during that college tour?  The answer blew the minds of the new generation of MMR employees, we never knew!:

The Preston & Steve Show had have Vernon Reid on their show to recount the story and see how the 66th greatest guitarist of all time [according to Rolling Stone] is making out during this pandemic. Take a listen:

Flashback to Living Colour's 2013 performance at Camp Out for Hunger:

Marisa Magnatta, Producer at The Preston & Steve Show, has clocked-in two decades at 93.3 WMMR, Philly. She’s your source for everything Philly, concert, sports fan, restaurant or Preston & Steve Show related.