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The End of An Era

My Real Memoir We’d done an ABC music special and recorded our debut album. But now my band The Daily Planet was running on fumes. Still, I was in denial. “I don’t know what’s going to happen,” I told my … Continue reading

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Flying Out of Control

My Real Memoir My band, The Daily Planet, had just finished recording our first album and were anxious to get on with becoming famous! Our sonic heroes were soaring: The Beatles with “Get Back” and soon Abbey Road, Simon & … Continue reading

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A Head Full of Dreams

My Real Memoir “You’re so full of dreams, I gotta kiss you just to shut you up!” (from my novel Healing River). Those could have been my girlfriend Marty’s words the day we graduated from high school. Yes, I was … Continue reading

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A Hero Comes Home

My first musical hero died this week. In fact, given the role music has played in my life, it would be accurate to call him one of my first heroes, period. Gerry Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemakers, along with … Continue reading

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