and then i started to think like, well, what about all that great stuff in the early 1980's like blondie the cars. so i was just like focusing on what i thought were kind of pure pop productions and taking elements from them. a lot of that was, you know, when i was a kid and first hearing synthesizers used in pop music and how like, whoa, that sounds so crazy and different, and recapturing some of those sounds. tavis: when you say pure pop, by that you mean what? >> i think, you know, radio hits from the 1970's, yeah. tavis: you have been honest about what you were hearing and what you wanted to bring back to this project. it raises me this question whether or not you think musical taste is cyclical or, once an era is gone, is that musical era gone? >> i think it's like, you know, waves on the beach. you know, it's cyclical. the waves will keep coming back, but a lot of sand gets eroded as it happens. so i do think that they're cycles, but there are going to be things that do eventually just die off forever, which is too bad. but then again, you know, you can't spend that much time like

. >>> back in 1981 the tide is high by "blondie" it was the number one song. >> good morning to you.rt now continuing coverage of two major issues going on. tornadoes packing powerful winds touching down in 6 states killing two people. the twister's ripping homes and trees to sheds. >> also in alabama a tense hostage situation continuing after more than 30 hours. a gunman holding a 6 yeefrld boy that he kidnapped off of a school bus. that's where we began. craig boswell has the latest on the hostage situation there. >> goot morning to you. here we are a day and a half in later. place say the suspect 65-year-old jimmy lee dikes a retired truck driver navy veteran accused of going on a bus asking for children where the bus driver kept him from getting the children. he opened fire on the bus driver killing the bus driver and grabbed a 6-year-old boy taking him hostage. he's holding the hostage and the property back behind us here in a homemade bunker. >> negotiators continue to communicate with the suspect. this time we have no reason to believe that the child has been harmed. >> now we

lots of technical jargon and we're working in, you know things that blondie here doesn't have a cluehat those are. ted had to operate all the knobs and the buttons and the things and we're trying to spit out dialogue like this and that. this day is going to make history. i can hardly wait to see their faces. and it's all because of you. after all, thanks to your genius the time portal practically runs itself. seacrest: because female action stars were so rare in the 1970s when lynda carter needed a stunt double, the producers dressed up a man in her costume. we couldn't have a hairy guy doubling me, you know. there was just -- [ laughs ] there was one guy... they had a russian chair i think it's called -- and it's a big swing. and it's got... and it launches a person into the air. he had, like, a hairy chest and everything and a wig on. "oh, it's gonna be from the back, you'll never see it." i said, "i can't have... i can't have" -- it's like he's got this, like, a guy's square shape, you know. it's like... seacrest: in one scene wonder woman was supposed to hang on to a helicopter,

. >> people behind your back call you blondie? >> that is the name i got on the beat. people would yell it out as i go down the street. >> does it bother you? >> no. a nickname. >> an officer of yours came up and said it. >> i have been on 23 years. i am the average member of the metropolitan police department. they are my group. we came on in 1989, the vast majority of us. i worked alongside the vast majority of the people in the police department. i know them by first name, i know their habits, i know who is a good cop and who is not as energetic as other cops. i know them all. that is a huge advantage for me. >> who is your boss? >> a couple of bosses. the mayor. the city administrator, and the deputy mayor. >> if you look on the list of how many police departments there are in this area, 25. >> i think it is 34. >> i could only find 25. >> the supreme court had a police department. other than the metropolitan police, and the u.s. park police, and the metro transit police to a certain extent, everybody else is very narrowly confined. park police really polices the p