
Acting
Lori Majewski
Weehawken, New Jersey, USA
Lori Majewski is a U.S.-based entertainment writer. She is the author of Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs that Defined the 1980s. Since 2016, she has been an on-air personality at the SiriusXM music talk radio channel Volume.
Acting credits
7.5Highlights boy bands and their rise — and fall — to fame, from The Beatles to Jackson 5 to the Jonas Brothers and One Direction, as well as the K-pop group Seventeen.
Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands
2024
6.0The story of the iconic electronic music group Yello and the phenomenon of their 1980's hit song, exploring the song’s cultural impact and its enduring place in the American psyche.
Oh Yeah!
2025
6.3The life and crimes of boy band impresario Lou Pearlman. The film tracks his life from discovering NSYNC and Backstreet Boys, to his perpetration of one of the largest ponzi schemes in US history.
The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story
2019
6.9U2, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Blondie, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, The Clash, The Cure: Over half a billion records sold but you may never have heard of them if not for a small suburban radio station on Long Island, NY: WLIR. In August, 1982, a small group of radio visionaries knew they couldn't compete with the mega-stations in New York City. With one brave decision, they changed the sound of radio forever. Program Director Denis McNamara, the 'LIR crew and the biggest artists of the era tell the story of how they battled the FCC, the record labels, mega-radio and all the conventional rules to create a musical movement that brought the New Wave to America.
New Wave: Dare to be Different
2017