Re: Andrew Gold Hi Bob I lost a dear friend and songwriting partner last week, the singer, songwriter, producer and multinstrumentalist Andrew Gold. He died in his sleep of a heart attack, following years of battling cancer, at the untimely age of fifty nine. I first met Andrew in 1981 when 10cc’s US record company, […]

That’s right, he’s gone now too, just got an e-mail. I know he had heart trouble, but… Worked great in the CBS organization, and then fought the man better than anybody. Meatloaf would be unknown without Popovich. He called on a regular basis.  He did favors.  He was one of the good guys. They don’t […]

The American radio landscape was changed forever by two tracks.  Soft Cell’s "Tainted Love" and Human League’s "Don’t You Want Me".  KROQ played both, KMET refused to do so, KROQ is arguably the most valuable music station in America today and KMET is defunct, for a long time now, replaced by a soft jazz station […]

Women believe men can just be friends. Men are more suspicious. So when my nascent girlfriend was going to the Roxy with her "friend" to see Andrew Gold I was anxious.  This was a new relationship.  She’d known him longer than she’d known me.  Was it real, or could she slip right through my fingers? […]