Two of the biggest American groups of the '60's ... The Beach Boys and The Four Seasons ... hold down the top two spots on this week's countdown as "I Get Around" holds at #1 and "Rag Doll" climbs up five more places to #2.
The top British act on the chart this week is The Dave Clark Five, who continue to rise as "Can't You See That She's Mine" climbs from #10 to #5. Behind it in The Top Ten are "Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying" by Gerry and the Pacemakers (#6) and "A World Without Love" by Peter and Gordon (#7)
Billy J. Kramer's "Bad To Me" holds at #13 for the third straight week while its A-Side, "Little Children," drops to #15. (In between at #14 you'll find "Don't Throw Your Love Away" by The Searchers.)
"Wishin' And Hopin'" by Dusty Springfield continues to make big strides, climbing from #35 to #18 while "Love Me Do" continues to hold on at #22 in its 14th week on the chart. (Speaking of chart longevity, check out Louis Armstrong's former #1 Hit, "Hello Dolly" ... it's still hangin' in there at #34 in its 22nd week on the chart!)
"Yesterday's Gone" by Chad and Jeremy holds at #26 while Peter and Gordon are up nearly twenty places with their latest, "Nobody I Know," which climbs from #46 to #27.
The Bachelors have the #42 and the #56 hits with "Diane" and "I Believe" respectively. Also holding down two spots are The Rolling Stones, who sit at #49 with "Not Fade Away" and at #72 with "Tell Me."
"You're My World" by Cilla Black now sits at #50 ... while The Beatles finally have a new record ... "A Hard Day's Night, the title track to their brand new film, debuts at #65. (The film will have its London premier today as well.)
Dropping down to the very bottom of the chart, we find "She's The One" by a new group called The Chartbusters (who sound an AWFUL lot like The Beatles on this one!) at #91 ... and right behind it, at #92, the record that will break The Supremes' career wide open ... "Where Did Our Love Go."
SIXTY YEARS AGO TODAY:
7/6/64 - The Beatles' film "A
Hard Day's Night" premieres at The Pavilion in London, England
I hope you caught the latest Chart Journey sent in by
FH Reader Clark Besch (and published on the site last Sunday … scroll back if
you happened to miss it)
I enjoy Clark Besch’s chart journeys as I, too, used
to keep my own charts showing the biggest hits of the day.
As early as 1965 (I was 11 at the time), I remember
being assigned the task of creating my own graph for school, showing the
relationship of some personal poll or research that I was to do …
My decision was to take that week’s local surveys
(Top Tunes of Greater Chicago and the WLS Silver Dollar Survey) and map out a
list of what these charts showed as the hits – then add my own opinions as
to my personal favorites – and then poll my classmates to find out what
THEIR favorites were – to see how my research results compared to the charts
that were out on the street in the City Of Chicago in early May of 1965.
Another side premise was the fact that “Ticket To
Ride” had not yet made it to #1 here in Chicago … which I found to be unthinkable!So, as a bonus question, I asked my voters at
the end of my survey of favorites: “Should ‘Ticket To Ride’ be a #1 record?”(It eventually DID top the Top Tunes chart …
but stalled at #2 on The Big 89.)
Once WCFL came along, I would pick up BOTH charts
every Friday on the way home from school and then re-rank Chicago’s biggest hits based
on the consensus of this chart information … so essentially my idea of The
Super Chart was actually born in 1966!It just took me forty years … and meeting Randy Price … to make them a
reality!Lol)
Each week, I would type up my own Top 40 list based
on the results of that ranking system … and, because it was done on a point
system and the two charts varied enough from time to time, records that never
made it to #1 on EITHER chart would top mine.(I wish I would have saved them … and I did for YEARS … but I outgrew
the weekly ritual in 1968 when all of a sudden WCFL stop publishing their charts and
only put up a poster on display in the record departments instead.When they resumed printing surveys for
distribution in 1970, I started the process up again … only to have WLS stop printing THEIR charts in 1972!
Honestly, by then I was
already out of high school and working a real job … and it just didn’t seem as
important anymore.Who could have EVER
have guessed that I’d still be talking about this some fifty years later!!!Or that so many others would be joining in on
the conversation!!! (kk)
TICKET TO RIDE ...
at its Chicagoland peaks
While I no longer have my graph or my research results, here is what I DO remember ...
LJ Hauser Jr High in Riverside, IL, voted THESE songs as their favorites:
Safe to say, The British Invasion was alive and well in May of 1965 in Chicago!
Oh and yes ... overwhelmingly students felt that "Ticket To Ride" deserved to be a #1 Record.
As a side note, I have to pay my respects to The Besch Boys for sharing their record collection and hobby of recording programs off the radio.
I was one of three brothers who also loved and collected music -
But you didn't DARE touch each other's stash!!!
And because once I accumulated enough 45's to do so, I used do my own pretend countdown show, I sometimes needed to "borrow" a song or two, just to keep things interesting. (They weren't around when I was living my radio fantasy anyway ... so no one was ever the wiser as I always put things back where I found them!!!)
And one thing that really helped ... especially toward the late '60's ... was the fact that we usually had drastically different tastes in music ... so while I may have been playing "Crystal Blue Persuasion," "Sugar, Sugar," "Tracy" and "Come Together" from my own collection, I also had access to some of the heavier tunes that were all over the airwaves at the time, like "White Room" by Cream, "You, I" by The Rugbys and "Polk Salad Annie" by Tony Joe White, all favorites of my brothers. (I also remember playing the heck out of their copies of "Medicine Man" by The Buchanan Brothers and "Israelites" by Desmond Dekker and the Aces, records I loved but didn't have to buy because they were already in the house in THEIR collections!) kk
The Rolling Stones played TWO shows in Chicago last week …
and on Sunday, they were joined on stage by country singer Lainey Wilson, who
performed their classic “Dead Flowers” with them.
The Stones also performed “Shattered” as the fan’s choice
song of the night as well as the track “Before They Make Me Run” from their “Some
Girls” album, the first time they’ve done that one on this tour.
Sunday’s set list included
“Start Me Up,” “Let's
Spend the Night Together,” “Rocks Off,” “Angry,” “Shattered,” “Dead Flowers,” “Whole
Wide World,” “Tumbling Dice,” “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” “Tell Me
Straight,” “Little T&A,” “Before They Make Me Run,” “Sympathy for the Devil,”
“Honky Tonk Women,” “Miss You,” “Gimme Shelter,” “Paint It Black” and “Jumpin'
Jack Flash,” followed by the usual encores “Sweet Sounds of Heaven” and “(I
Can't Get No) Satisfaction.”
With five dates to go, the tour winds down on July 21st
in Ridgedale, Missouri.(kk)
A couple of news
stories you’ve probably heard by now …
Michael J. Fox joined Coldplay
on stage at Glastonbury last Saturday Night.Now confined to a wheelchair due to his ongoing battle with Parkinson’s
Disease, Fox played guitar with the band.
Meanwhile, Pearl Jam
was forced to cancel a series of shows in Europe due to on-going illnesses
within the band.Their next show is
scheduled for this Saturday in Barcelona, Spain … no word yet as to whether or
not that show will go on as scheduled.(kk)
Don Henley has filed yet another lawsuit in an effort
to get his handwritten lyrics back.
After the previous trial was thrown out of court due
to negligence on Henley’s part, Don is now pushing for a jury trial, most
likely in an effort to play upon the sympathies of jurors who have grown up
listening to and loving his music for the past 50+ years.
The lyric sheets (over one hundred in all) were
valued at over $700,000 in the previous trial – and Henley doesn’t want the
folks who currently possess them to be pedaling these for profit.(The big dispute seems to be the
circumstances under which Henley first gave “custody” of the lyric sheets to Edward
Kosinski and Glenn Horowitz to use for reference while writing a book about
Henley and The Eagles.Kosinski and
Horowitz claim they were a “gift” … with no mention at the time of ever
expecting them to be returned.
Here's how we covered this story back in March when
the judge threw Henley’s case out of court:
‘60’s FLASHBACK:
In a completely unexpected move, the
judge threw the Eagles’ lyrics case out of court on Wednesday (3/6) after
prosecutors for Don Henley abruptly dropped the charges against the three men
accused of stealing handwritten Eagles lyrics.
Henley reportedly failed to disclose
thousands of pages of evidence on time and, by waiving his attorney-client
privilege, thusly granted prosecutors access to over 6,000 pages of previously
undisclosed materials, including emails between Henley, Eagles manager Irving
Azoff and their legal team. Assistant District Attorney Aaron Ginandes
wrote in a letter to the court that the defense should have had an opportunity
to cross-examine the prosecution about these materials.
Justice Curtis Farber had no choice …
"It is now clear that both witnesses
and their lawyers, two of which also shielded themselves from thorough and
complete cross-examination by relying on Mr. Henley’s invocation, used the
privilege to obfuscate and hide information that they believed would be
damaging to their position that the lyric sheets were stolen. This is a
basic confrontation violation.”
Henley had previously bought back some of
his manuscripts but then decided that he wasn’t going to be extorted
again. (Who knows … his best recourse right now may be to offer the three
men on trial a fair purchase price that they can all live with. But it is
FAR more likely that Henley will continue to pursue this matter in civil court
instead.) kk
My guess is that before this is all said
and done, Henley will have spent more on lawyers’ fees and court costs than he
would have by simply negotiating a settlement fee and buying they lyric sheets
back outright … but I DO totally understand his position on all of this …
I’m just thinking it’s probably already
too late to handle this the right way.(kk)
Hi Kent -
I know that Burton Cummings is going to play
at 4 Winds Casino in New Buffalo, Michigan. Do you have the "lowdown"
on how he is singing these days?
I know one time awhile back you saw him and
said his voice was not to par and it was disappointing.Any info is appreciated as I know you are a
big fan and if anyone would know it would be you!
As for me, it seems I am running to see
friends in the hospital or rehab (this year, FOUR … yes FOUR!) But at least I
am healthy for an old man of 73.
Always enjoy catching up on your website.
Thanks for all you do!!
Mike De Martino
Hey Mike!Haven’t
heard from you in awhile so glad to hear you’re doing ok …
It really doesn’t get easy for ANY of us, does it??!
And that includes many of our musical heroes.
Honestly, I haven’t seen Burton perform in several years …
after the Bachman/Cummings show was cancelled post-Covid, I haven’t even heard
about him performing much … meanwhile, Randy’s got Bachman-Turner Overdrive up
and running again and, from what I hear, sounding pretty good.(They’re opening for Heart on several dates
but when we saw Heart a couple of months back, the opening act was Cheap Trick,
who were SO loud as to be unenjoyable.Then Heart came out and blew us away.)
As to Burton’s voice, my comments were in response to the
show he and Randy Bachman did for Canada’s Manitoba 150th Anniversary … but that, too, was a
few years back already. (August of 2021) It was
disappointing to hear him that night but every other time I’ve EVER seen or
heard him perform, he’s been spot on … and is such an icon that it’s hard to
imagine him not putting on a good show.
If you go see him at Four Winds Casino, please report back
and let us know what YOU thought.Personally, I love the guy!(kk)
As we pass the halfway point of 2024, Best Classic Bands
reminds us of some of the great artists we’ve lost so far this year …
Note:This is by no
means a complete list …
We just abridged it to reflect the artists that pertain most
to the era of music we cover here in Forgotten Hits …
John Barbata – drummer for The Turtles (and later, Crosby,
Stills and Nash and Young and Jefferson Starship)
Dickey Betts – guitarist for The Allman Brothers Band
Eric Carmen – leader of The Raspberries as well as a very
successful solo artist
Duane Eddy – guitarist and top instrumental artist from the
late ‘50’s and early ‘60’s
Henry Fambrough – The Spinners
Bill Hayes – singer and actor (“Ballad of Davy Crockett”)
Clarence “Frogman” Henry – “But I Do”
Frank Ifield – “I Remember You”
Doug Ingle – keyboardist for Iron Butterfly
Toby Keith – country singer
Wayne Kramer – lead guitarist for MC5
Steve Lawrence – pop singer, entertainer and actor
David Libert – The Happenings
Mike Pinder – The Moody Blues
Chan Romero – writer/singer known for “Hippy Hippy Shake”
Melanie (Safka) – “Brand New Key”
David Sanborn – jazz great
David Soul – Hutch of “Starsky and Hutch” who also had a #1
pop hit with “Don’t Give Up On Us”
Randy Sparks – The New Christy Minstrels
Richard Tandy – Electric Light Orchestra
Arthur Tavares - Tavares
Dennis Thompson – Drummer for MC5
Mary Weiss – The Shangri-Las
As well as:
Tony Bramwell – Beatles associate
Buzz Cason – songwriter (“Everlasting Love”)
Hank Cicalo – Producer/Engineer who worked with The Monkees
and Carole King
Dabney Coleman – actor
Roger Corman – movie director
Louis Gossett, Jr - actor
Mark James – songwriter (“Suspicious Minds”)
Norman Jewison – filmmaker
Glynis Johns – actress (“Mary Poppins”)
Tom Kent – radio dj
Richard Lewis – comedian
Martin Mull – comedian/actor
Larry Page – British Manager/Producer (The Kinks, The
Troggs)
Joyce Randolph – actress (“The Honeymooners”)
Chita Rivera – Broadway Actress
OJ Simpson – football great (and probable murderer of his
ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson)
Donald Sutherland - actor
Jimmy Van Eaton – Drummer for Sun Records
Bill Walton – football great
Carl Weathers – actor (Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” movie
franchise)
Jerry West – basketball great
Melinda Wilson – wife of Brian Wilson
Speaking of which, here’s a great piece written by Ron
Onesti (sent in by Tom Cuddy), talking about Rock And Roll Heaven …
Ron Onesti: We could use a piece of rock ’n’ roll
heaven right now
Ringo Starr’s annual Peace And Love Birthday Celebration
will take place again this Sunday, July 7th, in honor of The Beatles’
Drummer’s 84th Birthday.
It’s a worldwide celebration that you can take part in, too
And, if you happen to be in New York, you can join in with
The Fest For Beatles Fans celebration …
Meet Up for
Ringo's Birthday!
Sunday, July 7th
- Ringo's 84th birthday!
We will film a
message of Peace &
Love at NOON
sharp to send
to Ringo!!
Meet at 11AM on
the steps of the Brooklyn
Museum in a rally for Peace and Love!
After
Noon: FIELD TRIP! All who want to join can go into the Brooklyn Museum to
experience Paul
McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm. Let's see
how many selfies and reels we can take with Ringo's photos as we imagine
paths to Peace, and share our love for Ringo & one another!
We’re calling a
Renegade Ringo Rally for Peace n Love! Meet up on the steps of the Brooklyn
Museum starting at 11AM Sunday, July 7th, on Ringo’s 84th birthday. We’ll
sing and play all things Ringo & The Beatles till 12 Noon, when we’ll
all get in a video to send to Ringo himself, to be posted on Ringo's page,
declaring and invoking PEACE AND LOVE!!! BRING: drums and percussion of all sorts,
instruments, signs with your message for Ringo on one side and your message
of PEACE to NYC or the world on the other. And YOU! dressed colorfully and
joyfully in your signature style! It feels ever more important each passing
year to call in Peace and Love, so let’s hold each other tight and stick to
it. Peace
is just not the absence of violence, but the presence of justice and
liberation for all beings on the planet.As we each do our part and hold out hope for
true World PEACE in the future we must first do our parts to make peace in
our homes, peace with our neighbors, peace in our relations, peace
with our own past and present. To beam LOVE Across the Universe we must
first attend to our loved ones, we must continue to learn what it means to
love ourselves! This year we ask: What are the tangible acts of peace and
love you experience or exhibit on a daily basis? Let's tune in and amplify
our peaceful loving feeling to bring about more of it. PEACE AND LOVE! PEACE AND LOVE! PEACE AND
LOVE! Your loving hosts, Ringo's official Peace & Love
Birthday Ambassadors for NYC, Mark, Carol, Michelle Joni and Tilly J
Lapidos (by the way, Mark &
Carol will be in Las Vegas for the last LOVE Cirque du Soliel show!)
The Alan Parsons Project FINALLY played The
Ryman Auditorium in Nashville last night (June 30th) after
cancelling two previously scheduled shows (one because of Covid and the other
because Alan had spinal surgery.)
Although he charted eight Billboard Top 40
singles, I really only know his four biggest hits and was glad the group
performed them all: “Eye In The Sky, “Time,” “Don’t Answer Me” and “Games
People Play” (which was their last encore.)
The 7:30 pm show was over about 9:30 pm, with
a short break after the first 45 minute set.
The show was sold out and the audience was
enthusiastic.
Ed Salamon
Nashville. TN
Alan’s live shows are ALWAYS among our favorites … we’ve
seen him several times now and it is always a spectacle to behold.(How they create all that musical magic live
on stage is impressive enough … but doing it with essentially NONE of the
original artists that performed on these tracks on the records pays high
tribute indeed to the incredible musicians he surrounds himself with.)
We’ve been recommending this show now for year … glad you
finally had the chance to take it all in.(kk)
Here is our review from the first time we ever saw him back
in 2014 …
But Harvey Kubernik gives the new Stevie Van Zandt HBO documentary
two huge thumbs up …
Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple-HBO Original Documentary
By Harvey Kubernik
I encourage FH readers to watch the HBO Original documentary STEVIE
VAN ZANDT: DISCIPLE, directed by Bill Teck, which debuted June 22ndon HBO and is
streaming on Max. It had its world premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Festival.
Stevie Van Zandt takes
center stage in this feature documentary. Featuring a wealth of
never-before-seen footage, the film traces Van Zandt’s career as a producer,
musician, songwriter, activist, actor, and more, from the clubs of Asbury Park,
N.J. to arenas and stadiums, to the Bada Bing Club and the Underground Garage.
From the HBO press
release:
“A portrait of a
true renaissance man and passionate activist, STEVIE VAN ZANDT: DISCIPLE
chronicles the artist throughout his remarkable career while illuminating the
influential and enduring legacy he continues to have as a fervent champion of
rock ‘n’ roll and social justice.
“The documentary features exclusive interviews with many of Van Zandt’s
contemporaries, peers, collaborators, and friends, including Mike Stoller,
Bruce Springsteen, Darlene Love, David Chase, Vincent Pastore, Bill Wyman,
Peter Gabriel, Joan Jett, Ruben Blades, Richie Sambora, Eddie Vedder, Gary U.S.
Bonds, Southside Johnny (John Lyon), Paul McCartney, and Bono."
Film critic Richard
Roeper in the June 21, 2024 issue of The Chicago Sun-Times hailed Stevie Van Zandt:
Disciple.
“In the
comprehensive, entertaining and star-studded documentary Stevie Van Zandt:
Disciple, we’re also reminded of the myriad of other triumphs,
setbacks and adventures in Stevie’s storied career, from co-founding Southside
Johnny and the Asbury Jukes to his solo endeavors to a long and impressive
record of political and social activism to being the program director for two
channels on Sirius/XM. Disciple also benefits from a steady supply of
archival photos and clips.
“It’s
actually kind of remarkable how often someone had a still or movie camera at
those early gigs in New Jersey, when Van Zandt and Springsteen were playing in
a variety of different bands. The running time for the doc is a robust 2 hours
and 27 minutes, but hey, the 73-year-old Van Zandt has lived too much life for
it to be encapsulated in a zippy hour or so.”
CNN
reviewer Brian Lowry on June 22, 2024 recommended it, too. “Sometimes documentaries get
all they need from the subject, and in the case of Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple,
the who’s who of musical luminaries in his orbit don’t hurt either. Chronicling
Steven Van Zandt’s colorful life as Bruce Springsteen’s frequent
collaborator, The
Sopranos’ weirdest mobster and an outspoken activist, Disciple
plucks the right notes in a 2 1/2-hour marathon that’s still shorter than an
average night’s work for the E Street Band.
“The HBO
presentation begins with Van Zandt’s formative musical years in New Jersey, his
bromance with Springsteen and the various characters and players that circled
in and out of their respective endeavors. Once Van Zandt had achieved a measure
of success as an artist, his political interests consumed him, advocating for
the anti-apartheid campaign in South Africa and on behalf of imprisoned
Native-American activist Leonard Peltier, among other causes. All those
elements would be plenty entertaining on their own, frankly, but what really
elevates Disciple
is the dizzying list of bold-faced names that pop up seemingly at the drop of a
guitar pick. The documentary bills Van Zandt as ‘New Jersey’s most famous
consigliere to Bruce Springsteen and Tony Soprano,’ ut proceeds to show there’s
much more to him than that. Like his trademark bandanas, Disciple
wears its soul, and its love for the music these artists created, brightly
displayed where all the world can see it.”
In 2024, touring
again with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Steven has also found
success and influence as the host and curator of the satellite radio station
Underground Garage and other channels, director of a television drama series,
Broadway producer, script writer, music education evangelist.
This year, Steven
will appear in the documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band,
which goes behind-the-scenes of the E Street Band's tour preparation process,
premiering on Hulu and Disney+ this October.
Over the last 48
years I've conducted a number of interviews with Van Zandt, always about music
and bands.
In 2014, Van Zandt sent me
an email about the Doors for a book I was working on about them.
“I didn't like the Doors as a kid. I didn't get it. I was a total Anglophile on
top of being prejudiced against most things from the West Coast. Any
guitar player not from the Eric Clapton school was irrelevant, Mike Bloomfield
being the only exception, so I didn't appreciate Robbie Krieger's Ravi Shankar
influenced guitar style.
“Poetry was beyond me, the only exception being Bob Dylan, so Jim
Morrison's Rimbaud meets Dionysius routine went right over my head. John
Desmore's drum craft gently weaving the guitar and keys together was too subtle
in my world of Keith Moon, Ginger Baker, and BJ Wison. Ray Manzarek was
the exception, being obviously impressive with every keyboard player tested by
his ‘Light My Fire’ riff. But I wouldn't appreciate keyboardists playing with
one hand until much later (he played bass with the left).
“Nobody in my neighborhood took the band seriously. And while we're on the
subject, we let the Rascals get away it but we weren't so forgiving with the
Doors' weird ass no-bass-thing either. As it turned out, of course, I
couldn't have been more wrong. It's obvious to me now, they were fantastic.
They would be one of the defining bands of the Psychedelic Era.
“They were a brilliant combination of extremely cinematic Rock,
Pop, and Art, that featured Existential philosophy, Beat Poet influenced
lyrics, Eastern-style Indian scales, Western-style self-psychoanalysis, and
Native American primal, ritual performance. Awesomely original, they were
an unpredictable exciting visionary energy for a new world that never quite
came to be.”
Van
Zandt has always touted the Rascals. In 1965 he saw the band, then booked as
the Young Rascals, at a skating rink in Keyport, New Jersey. He
subsequently wrote, produced, and directed, with Marc Brickman, The Rascals:
Once Upon A
Dream, a narrative and music-driven show that reached Broadway in
2013.
“The Rascals music was
unique. Not only in its greatness but through their hit singles it told the
entire story of the sixties. The rock and soul of the band’s beginnings to the
Brill Building, folk rock, the civil rights movement, jazz rock, the psychedelic
era and Vietnam. All expressed in their fantastic records. Their place in
history is also unique. The higher their success they were one of the first
bands that demand there be black opening acts."
In his SiriusXM
duties, programs Beatles’ recordings, hosted shows devoted to them, and spins
their catalog on vinyl, in mono and streamed digitally.
“Revolver
was
extra notable by being the first album to have three George songs,” emailed
Steven, “while we in America (as usual) lost three of the coolest tracks (‘I'm
Only Sleeping,’ ‘And Your Bird Can Song,’ and ‘Dr. Robert’-the second coolest
after ‘She Said She Said!’) as the American company continued to turn every two
albums into three. Oh, and one more thing we should mention, they wouldn't
decide to stop performing live until the next disastrous tour a few months
later but they may have had a premonition at that point which undoubtedly
opened their minds to even more adventurous artistic exploration.”
As for the 2009 Beatles Mono Box, Van
Zandtadded,“there was something
physical as well as audio that the analog medium communicated that digital
never will,” underlined Steve. “It doesn't really matter of course unless
you’re listening to it on vinyl anyway and we know whatever they used will be a
relief compared to the various, sometimes absurd, and usually terrible stereo
versions.
“I had probably five
lengthy conversations with [Apple Records’] Neil Aspinall over the last ten
years of his life. In every one I begged him to put out the original
configurations in the original mono. At first, he couldn’t quite understand why
I was so passionate about it. By the third conversation he realized I was never
going to stop bugging him about it and started seriously considering, not if,
but when it could get done. He always had one distraction after the other, the
Las Vegas thing [LOVE] took a lot of his time, but I'm sure he put it in
motion before he left us. Anyway, I'm very very glad it got done.
“So now our
masterpieces have been restored, and our leaders once again assume their proper
place as our standard bearers. And peace returns to Pepperland.”
In 2023 I asked
Steven about the first record he purchased.
‘“Tears On My
Pillow’ was the first record I ever bought,” was his reply.
“My first concert
was the Imperials at the Ocean Township Skating Rink. Anthony is one of the
very best singers and has one of the most unique, instantly recognizable voices
in all of Rock history. I tried to get him for my wedding, Little Richard was
our preacher and Little Milton performed, but he was booked on a cruise.”
New news! Keith Hopwood has a book being
released in a month in both the UK and America.
Shelley
While looking four our 2008 interview with Keith Hopwood, I
stumbled across this …
