A biography for Nina Blackwoodhasn’t been written yet.
“My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.”
“I get real excited when I hear my shows on the radio.”
“I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.”
“I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV.”
“When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartney's press conference.”
“I'm a little bit to the left of things anyway.”
“I have two syndicated radio shows though United Stations Radio Network.”
“The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.”
“Absolute 80's is three hours of mainstream 80's music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is more punk stuff from the 70's to the 90's.”
“I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.”
“Now that the 90's are over and more time has gone by, the 80's sound fresh again.”
“Christopher Guest movies are my top of the line favorites.”
“The heyday of video music was the mid 80's.”
“People that really know me will tell you that I am not a video vixen.”
“Because I was the blonde, I was promoted as the video vixen.”
“When you are young your imagination is so clear.”
“We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N' Roll Mystery Tour.”
“The thing that they were more freaked out was that I had done a spread for Playboy years before, and as Playboy always does, they exploit the exploitation and re-release different pictures.”
“Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.”
“I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time.”