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In keeping with Charlie Watts’ laconic mien, I’ll keep this post brief. Sixty-one years ago, during the Rolling Stones first New Zealand tour in 1965, an astute newspaperman in Wellington deciphered Charlie in just 68 words.
Some big news in Skynyrd Nation. On Wednesday, March 4, I filed a motion asking a federal judge in Manhattan to unseal the Consent Order that has governed the activities of Lynyrd Skynyrd since 1988.
Way back last century, when David Bowie was a starving artist who had yet to conquer space, his devoted father typed up a wonderful letter of recommendation on his behalf.
There s something about Conrad Lozano. The next time you go to a Los Lobos show, stop leering at Cesar Rosas, the band s totemic MC and guitar god at the far left, and check out the fellow next to him.
It s a shame Bob Burns didn t live to enjoy the full financial fruits of his tenure as Lynyrd Skynyrd s original drummer. Burns left the band in 1974 and spent the rest of his life in obscurity before his death in 2015 at the age of 64.
An interesting email from Amazon/Kindle Direct Publishing yesterday, regarding my beloved memoir Strange Days: The Adventures of a Grumpy Rock n Roll Journalist in Los Angeles : Congratulations!
Follow @deangoodman Back in the 1990s, the wry joke among music fans was that our CD acquisitions were mostly forced repurchases of our old LPs and cassettes.
Jim Moginie didn’t know about his Irish heritage until he was in his late 40s and managed to track down his birth parents in suburban Australia.
How many roads must a man walk down before his life gets turned into a deluge of movies and TV series? In an ideal world, every simple twist of Bob Dylan’s momentous life would have yielded some sort of screen adaptation by now, rendering Star Wars a cottage industry by comparison.
HOLLYWOOD GODFATHER: THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF BILLY WILKERSON By W.R. Wilkerson III Chicago Review Press; $15.99 on Kindle at Amazon . Billy Wilkerson was the founder of the Hollywood Reporter, a movie trade publication based in Los Angeles.