Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends Only it does. It was not supposed to be this way. We and our music were supposed to rule forever. We might get old, but we’re still young at heart. No one was ever supposed to DIE! Certainly not of natural causes. Keith Emerson was […]

He thought he was going to beat it. And that was the essence of Chip Hooper, his optimism, his determination, his perseverance. He saw what he wanted and he reached out and got it. Almost always. I first met him on a soundstage, at A&M Records, back in 1990, he was the agent for the […]

Television makes stars. Didn’t we learn this during the MTV era, when suddenly Duran Duran came out of nowhere and started selling prodigious amounts of product? Some consider “Off The Wall” to be superior to “Thriller,” but the latter far outsold it, because of the videos, because of the airplay, it became a phenomenon, and […]

It’s a great big country with a vast number of people who may not see things the same way those in L.A. and NYC do. I rode the lift with fiftysomethings who’d never left the state and had great-grandchildren, they lived for their families. Not everybody has money. It would be so great if the […]