Spotify playlist: https://tinyurl.com/3ahvs5ru YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/3rk57ykn It was not a hit. As a matter of fact, the entire album was a stiff. Donna Summer was part of David Geffen’s trifecta, launching his new, eponymous label with three superstars, Donna Summer, Elton John and John Lennon. And all three of their albums stiffed, although subsequent to his […]

Drummer extraordinaire Keith Carlock has been Steely Dan’s man on the skins for decades. Hear the story of how he made it from Mississippi to the big time! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/keith-carlock/id1316200737?i=1000631849077 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/475e0f43-391f-4260-a31d-66fd0a18488a/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-keith-carlock

“The Only Girl – My Life and Times on the Masthead of Rolling Stone”: https://tinyurl.com/5xcn4xum I’d never heard of this book, never mind its author, Robin Green. Then again, I had. I saw her credit for years, as a writer and executive producer on “The Sopranos.” What? That’s quite a career! Now this is not […]

It’s happening again. What my parents warned me about. Anti-Semitism. My inbox is overflowing. Overwhelmingly in support of what I wrote about Gaza. But you know what so many of those e-mailers said? DON’T USE MY NAME! And there you have it in a nutshell. Yes, I blame the Jews. Not Israel, but the assimilated […]