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WRITER, RADIO PRODUCER, COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANT
JOHN LURIE
THE HISTORY OF BONES
Writer, musician, actor and artist John Lurie is at the center of many indelible images from a certain time and place in NYC’s music and film history: fronting his band the Lounge Lizards, Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger Than Paradise and Down By Law, and being one of those people who draw attention just by standing there. On the wings of a successful HBO series, Painting With John, comes The History of Bones: A Memoir (Random House). In all of his creative endeavors, Lurie is a born storyteller.
Writer, musician, actor and artist John Lurie is at the center of many indelible images from a certain time and place in NYC’s music and film history: fronting his band the Lounge Lizards, Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger Than Paradise and Down By Law, and being one of those people who draw attention just by standing there. On the wings of a successful HBO series, Painting With John, comes The History of Bones: A Memoir (Random House). In all of his creative endeavors, Lurie is a born storyteller.
HIAWATHA BAILEY
PANTHER, PUNK, CULT HERO
If you spent any time in the Detroit/Ann Arbor cultural scene in the last 50 years, chances are you know the name Hiawatha Bailey, the only Black and Native American member of the White Panther Party. He was on the front lines and rubbed shoulders with the Stooges, MC5, and John Lennon. Busted for drugs, when he was released from prison, he immediately formed a punk rock band, Cult Heroes, after being the roadie for the legendary Destroy All Monsters. A true PKM hero tells his own story, through Todd McGovern.
Hiawatha Bailey was born in the postwar American South, Columbus, Georgia, on the Chattahoochee River near the Alabama border. Like many other Black families in the region, the Baileys made the journey North in search of work in the auto industry. They settled first in Detroit, then in Hamtramck, a city within Detroit proper. It was here a young Hiawatha started Catholic school – and that’s when trouble began.
If you spent any time in the Detroit/Ann Arbor cultural scene in the last 50 years, chances are you know the name Hiawatha Bailey, the only Black and Native American member of the White Panther Party. He was on the front lines and rubbed shoulders with the Stooges, MC5, and John Lennon. Busted for drugs, when he was released from prison, he immediately formed a punk rock band, Cult Heroes, after being the roadie for the legendary Destroy All Monsters. A true PKM hero tells his own story, through Todd McGovern.
Hiawatha Bailey was born in the postwar American South, Columbus, Georgia, on the Chattahoochee River near the Alabama border. Like many other Black families in the region, the Baileys made the journey North in search of work in the auto industry. They settled first in Detroit, then in Hamtramck, a city within Detroit proper. It was here a young Hiawatha started Catholic school – and that’s when trouble began.
POKIN’ AROUND
WITH THE MUFFS
LA’s Favorite Power-Pop Trio on the Secrets of Longevity
“I can shit anywhere. If it has to come out, it has to come out.”
I’m sitting with Kim Shattuck, lead singer, guitarist and songwriter for The Muffs, the power pop trio from Los Angeles. With Kim are longtime band mates, bassist Ronnie Barnett and drummer Roy McDonald.
Kim continues, “At CBGB, the bathroom stalls didn’t close all the way, so you kind of had to hold the door. And one time, I was taking a shit and the door pushes open and there’s a girl standing there holding our record and a Sharpie. ‘Can I have your autograph?’ I’m like, ‘I’m taking a shit right now. After I’m done with my shit and I wash my hands.’ I was taking a shit! That was just weird!”
LA’s Favorite Power-Pop Trio on the Secrets of Longevity
“I can shit anywhere. If it has to come out, it has to come out.”
I’m sitting with Kim Shattuck, lead singer, guitarist and songwriter for The Muffs, the power pop trio from Los Angeles. With Kim are longtime band mates, bassist Ronnie Barnett and drummer Roy McDonald.
Kim continues, “At CBGB, the bathroom stalls didn’t close all the way, so you kind of had to hold the door. And one time, I was taking a shit and the door pushes open and there’s a girl standing there holding our record and a Sharpie. ‘Can I have your autograph?’ I’m like, ‘I’m taking a shit right now. After I’m done with my shit and I wash my hands.’ I was taking a shit! That was just weird!”
GEORGE PACKER: OUR MAN
AMBASSDOR RICHARD HOLBROOKE
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
Former US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke was brilliant, utterly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and appetites. George Packer discusses his new book on Ambassador Holbrooke with Leonard Lopate on WBAI. (May 31, 2019)
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
Former US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke was brilliant, utterly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and appetites. George Packer discusses his new book on Ambassador Holbrooke with Leonard Lopate on WBAI. (May 31, 2019)
THE LOST STOOGE
GHOST OF DAVE ALEXANDER
Chasing the Ghost of Dave Alexander
Dave Alexander was one of the founding members of the Stooges. He was full of contradictions: shy and mysterious, with a fast car and an unquenchable thirst for cheap beer and liquor. Ron Asheton described him as “way ahead of his time.” But Dave was fired from the Stooges, and died from alcoholism at age 27. Todd McGovern pulls together the threads of Dave’s story through the recollections of those who knew him well.
Chasing the Ghost of Dave Alexander
Dave Alexander was one of the founding members of the Stooges. He was full of contradictions: shy and mysterious, with a fast car and an unquenchable thirst for cheap beer and liquor. Ron Asheton described him as “way ahead of his time.” But Dave was fired from the Stooges, and died from alcoholism at age 27. Todd McGovern pulls together the threads of Dave’s story through the recollections of those who knew him well.
HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF
ALYNDA SEGARRA
TRACES HER ROOTS
From the Bronx to the Lower East Side, San Francisco to New Orleans, Alynda Segarra sings for the displaced and the dispossessed.
Though you wouldn’t label her music as “punk rock,” the backstory of Hurray For The Riff Raff’s Alynda Segarra is pretty punk, if you ask me. A young Puerto Rican woman currently living in New Orleans, Segarra was born in the Bronx and raised by an aunt and uncle. Growing up, she soaked up the music coming out of ABC No Rio, the punk and hardcore collective located on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, falling in love with the anger and energy of the music.
TRACES HER ROOTS
From the Bronx to the Lower East Side, San Francisco to New Orleans, Alynda Segarra sings for the displaced and the dispossessed.
Though you wouldn’t label her music as “punk rock,” the backstory of Hurray For The Riff Raff’s Alynda Segarra is pretty punk, if you ask me. A young Puerto Rican woman currently living in New Orleans, Segarra was born in the Bronx and raised by an aunt and uncle. Growing up, she soaked up the music coming out of ABC No Rio, the punk and hardcore collective located on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, falling in love with the anger and energy of the music.
PETER LAUGHNER
AN UNFINISHED LIFE
Cleveland’s vital and unsung punk scene would not be complete without a chapter on Peter Laughner. Laughner, who died in 1977 at the age of 24, co-founded legendary bands Rocket from the Tombs and Pere Ubu, among others. An amazing singer and songwriter, he has received little recognition. After being moved by Laughner’s posthumous and out-of-print “Take The Guitar Player For A Ride” collection, PKM’s Todd McGovern set out to find the man behind the myth. He spoke with those closest to Peter, including Cheetah Chrome, Richard Hell, Craig Bell, Miriam Linna, Anton Fier, and Adele Bertei, among others.
Playwright Tennessee Williams wrote, “America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.” Actor Michael D. Roberts, best known as “Rooster,” a streetwise pimp and informant on 1970s TV show Baretta, said of his native town, “Cleveland is a hard town to truly love. Live here long enough and you accept it as you do a cellmate in jail.”
Some cities are known for their music scene or their sound. Detroit had Motown; Seattle had “grunge; Minneapolis had both funk and college rock. What did Cleveland ever have? Sure, it had Harvey Pekar; it had Jim Brown and The Raspberries, but it was too beat, too beaten down, too uncool to have a “scene.” What it did have in the late Sixties and early Seventies were a lot of local bands, playing dive bars with sets consisting of mostly cover songs. It had Midwestern kids who had seen the MC5 and The Stooges and were trying to make something their own.
Cleveland also had Peter Laughner.
Cleveland’s vital and unsung punk scene would not be complete without a chapter on Peter Laughner. Laughner, who died in 1977 at the age of 24, co-founded legendary bands Rocket from the Tombs and Pere Ubu, among others. An amazing singer and songwriter, he has received little recognition. After being moved by Laughner’s posthumous and out-of-print “Take The Guitar Player For A Ride” collection, PKM’s Todd McGovern set out to find the man behind the myth. He spoke with those closest to Peter, including Cheetah Chrome, Richard Hell, Craig Bell, Miriam Linna, Anton Fier, and Adele Bertei, among others.
Playwright Tennessee Williams wrote, “America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.” Actor Michael D. Roberts, best known as “Rooster,” a streetwise pimp and informant on 1970s TV show Baretta, said of his native town, “Cleveland is a hard town to truly love. Live here long enough and you accept it as you do a cellmate in jail.”
Some cities are known for their music scene or their sound. Detroit had Motown; Seattle had “grunge; Minneapolis had both funk and college rock. What did Cleveland ever have? Sure, it had Harvey Pekar; it had Jim Brown and The Raspberries, but it was too beat, too beaten down, too uncool to have a “scene.” What it did have in the late Sixties and early Seventies were a lot of local bands, playing dive bars with sets consisting of mostly cover songs. It had Midwestern kids who had seen the MC5 and The Stooges and were trying to make something their own.
Cleveland also had Peter Laughner.
MIKE TYSON
UNDISPUTED TRUTH
Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson talks about his life in and out of the ring. Bullied as a boy in the poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn, Tyson grew up to become one of the most ferocious boxers of all time—and the youngest heavyweight champion ever. But his brilliance in the ring was often compromised by reckless behavior.
Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson talks about his life in and out of the ring. Bullied as a boy in the poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn, Tyson grew up to become one of the most ferocious boxers of all time—and the youngest heavyweight champion ever. But his brilliance in the ring was often compromised by reckless behavior.
JESSE MALIN
D GENERATION TO REGENERATION
Like the Ramones, Jesse Malin grew up in Queens, one generation later. Steeped in Kiss, Elton John, The Who and the Stones, Malin had his head turned toward Manhattan, and CBGB, by the punk scene. From his earliest band, Heart Attack (formed with he was 12) to D Generation and his two decades as a solo artist, Malin always wrote and played from the heart, but inspired by the city streets. His new album Sunset Kids, a collaboration with Lucinda Williams that pays tribute to friends who are gone, is turning some heads.
It was an early August evening and the heat and humidity were oppressive. Ahead of me on the sidewalk, I noticed a guy apparently unaffected by the heat. Dressed in a perfectly tailored pinstriped suit, dress shoes, and a hat, he was walking with just the right amount of swagger. That well-dressed man, I realized, was Jesse Malin.
Like the Ramones, Jesse Malin grew up in Queens, one generation later. Steeped in Kiss, Elton John, The Who and the Stones, Malin had his head turned toward Manhattan, and CBGB, by the punk scene. From his earliest band, Heart Attack (formed with he was 12) to D Generation and his two decades as a solo artist, Malin always wrote and played from the heart, but inspired by the city streets. His new album Sunset Kids, a collaboration with Lucinda Williams that pays tribute to friends who are gone, is turning some heads.
It was an early August evening and the heat and humidity were oppressive. Ahead of me on the sidewalk, I noticed a guy apparently unaffected by the heat. Dressed in a perfectly tailored pinstriped suit, dress shoes, and a hat, he was walking with just the right amount of swagger. That well-dressed man, I realized, was Jesse Malin.
I WAS KIDNAPPED BY PATTY HEARST
THE TOM MATTHEWS STORY
On a Thursday afternoon in mid-May 1974, in the small city of Lynwood, California, 18-year-old high school senior Tom Matthews answered a knock on the door.
Outside stood a short-haired brunette in her twenties, who inquired about the Ford Econoline van for sale that was sitting in the driveway of his parents home.
Tom told her he was asking $2,500 and sure, now was a good time to go for a test drive. In a matter of minutes, “Emily” was behind the wheel, with Tom sitting shotgun in the front passenger seat. After driving a few blocks, she asked if her friends could come along.
It was then that Tom Matthews’ life took a turn.
On a Thursday afternoon in mid-May 1974, in the small city of Lynwood, California, 18-year-old high school senior Tom Matthews answered a knock on the door.
Outside stood a short-haired brunette in her twenties, who inquired about the Ford Econoline van for sale that was sitting in the driveway of his parents home.
Tom told her he was asking $2,500 and sure, now was a good time to go for a test drive. In a matter of minutes, “Emily” was behind the wheel, with Tom sitting shotgun in the front passenger seat. After driving a few blocks, she asked if her friends could come along.
It was then that Tom Matthews’ life took a turn.
NIAGARA
DETROIT ROCK ROYALTY
ON MUSIC, ART, AND RON ASHETON
Tempting! Tantalizing!! TERRIFYING!!!
The True Story of Niagara, Destroy All Monsters & the Desecration of Detroit
Ann Arbor’s storied dive, Joe’s Star Lounge. The last song that Autumn night in 1984 from Destroy All Monsters was The Stooges signature, I Wanna Be Your Dog, added to their set when Ron Asheton joined the band.
Asheton’s immediately identifiable guitar squall rode the wave of ex-MC5 Mike Davis bass line, the crashing chaos of drummer Rob King and lead singer’s vocal wail. As the song clamored to an end, it happened: Niagara, her dark hair with painted streaks piled on top of her head, black tights, thigh-high boots and black leather bra jumped off stage and into my arms. She cooed into my ear, “Where’s the party tonight?”
ON MUSIC, ART, AND RON ASHETON
Tempting! Tantalizing!! TERRIFYING!!!
The True Story of Niagara, Destroy All Monsters & the Desecration of Detroit
Ann Arbor’s storied dive, Joe’s Star Lounge. The last song that Autumn night in 1984 from Destroy All Monsters was The Stooges signature, I Wanna Be Your Dog, added to their set when Ron Asheton joined the band.
Asheton’s immediately identifiable guitar squall rode the wave of ex-MC5 Mike Davis bass line, the crashing chaos of drummer Rob King and lead singer’s vocal wail. As the song clamored to an end, it happened: Niagara, her dark hair with painted streaks piled on top of her head, black tights, thigh-high boots and black leather bra jumped off stage and into my arms. She cooed into my ear, “Where’s the party tonight?”
A SAD AND BEAUTIFUL LIFE
JOHN LURIE
MY CONVERSATION WITH JOHN LURIE!
No one epitomized the melding of music and art that took place in downtown Manhattan of the 1970s and early 1980s more than John Lurie.
We got off on the wrong foot, John Lurie and I. One Sunday afternoon in the early 2000s, we found ourselves sitting next to each other, sharing free tickets for expensive seats at Madison Square Garden, close to the “action” (if you could call it that) at a New York Knicks game. After my wife spilled beer on his dark overcoat, Lurie and I argued for four quarters about the merit of one of my favorite players at the time, Jalen Rose. Lurie was at turns funny and charming, then cutting and dyspeptic. None of it changed my opinion of the man. I’d seen him in “Stranger Than Paradise” and “Down By Law” more times than I’d care to admit and was a proud owner of the Lounge Lizards record, “Voice of Chunk.” To my mind, John Lurie could do no wrong.
MY CONVERSATION WITH JOHN LURIE!
No one epitomized the melding of music and art that took place in downtown Manhattan of the 1970s and early 1980s more than John Lurie.
We got off on the wrong foot, John Lurie and I. One Sunday afternoon in the early 2000s, we found ourselves sitting next to each other, sharing free tickets for expensive seats at Madison Square Garden, close to the “action” (if you could call it that) at a New York Knicks game. After my wife spilled beer on his dark overcoat, Lurie and I argued for four quarters about the merit of one of my favorite players at the time, Jalen Rose. Lurie was at turns funny and charming, then cutting and dyspeptic. None of it changed my opinion of the man. I’d seen him in “Stranger Than Paradise” and “Down By Law” more times than I’d care to admit and was a proud owner of the Lounge Lizards record, “Voice of Chunk.” To my mind, John Lurie could do no wrong.
DEMOLITION DOLL RODS
HIGH ENERGY DETROIT MUSCLE
FOR HARD TIMES
The garage rock trio Demolition Doll Rods take their Detroit roots seriously. Citing the Stooges and MC5 as their touchstones, the band plays the kind of stripped-down (literally) rock & roll that would bring misfortune to the ears of Frank Sinatra. In the 1990s, they released four albums and toured with Iggy Pop, Jon Spencer and the Cramps before tossing in the towel in 2007. They’ve reformed, recorded a new album and are back on the road in 2020.
FOR HARD TIMES
The garage rock trio Demolition Doll Rods take their Detroit roots seriously. Citing the Stooges and MC5 as their touchstones, the band plays the kind of stripped-down (literally) rock & roll that would bring misfortune to the ears of Frank Sinatra. In the 1990s, they released four albums and toured with Iggy Pop, Jon Spencer and the Cramps before tossing in the towel in 2007. They’ve reformed, recorded a new album and are back on the road in 2020.
RADIO BIRDMAN'S DENIZ TEK
PROTO-PUNK PIONEER
Having completed the twenty date, four-week tour of Europe and Scandinavia, Radio Birdman co-founder Deniz Tek takes a week off to vacation in the French Alps before flying home to Australia. There just long enough to do laundry and pay some bills, he boards another flight for the twenty hour trip to Detroit to visit friends and family. From there he flies to Montana, where he’ll finish work on his next solo record. Also in the works is a documentary DVD on Radio Birdman by Australian filmmaker Jonathan Sequeira, which is expected to debut in early 2016. All in all, it’s a typical couple of months in the life of this 62-year-old proto-punk pioneer, ER physician and former U.S. Navy flight surgeon.
Having completed the twenty date, four-week tour of Europe and Scandinavia, Radio Birdman co-founder Deniz Tek takes a week off to vacation in the French Alps before flying home to Australia. There just long enough to do laundry and pay some bills, he boards another flight for the twenty hour trip to Detroit to visit friends and family. From there he flies to Montana, where he’ll finish work on his next solo record. Also in the works is a documentary DVD on Radio Birdman by Australian filmmaker Jonathan Sequeira, which is expected to debut in early 2016. All in all, it’s a typical couple of months in the life of this 62-year-old proto-punk pioneer, ER physician and former U.S. Navy flight surgeon.
SEYMOR H. HERSH ON WBAI
REPORTER: A MEMOIR
Seymour Hersh tells Leonard Lopate about his legendary career in investigative reporting on WBA Leonard Lopate at Large. (July 30, 2018)
Seymour Hersh tells Leonard Lopate about his legendary career in investigative reporting on WBA Leonard Lopate at Large. (July 30, 2018)
BBQT’S GABBIE TORRES
GLITTER IN THE GUTTER
Former Bam Bam and total rock & roller Gabbie Torres immerses herself in a swaggering mix of influences, from Suzi Quatro and Selena to Brian Eno and Johnny Thunders.
Redemption in rock and roll is a cliché, but like all clichés, it is grounded in truth. It’s also not just for big rock stars, but also for everyday people who find the strength to overcome their demons through electric guitars, power chords and a good beat.
It’s just past 10:00 p.m. on a sweltering summer night in New York’s East Village when she bounds on stage, clad in a silver spandex metallic cat suit and bright red sunglasses. Gabriela “Gabbie” Torres doesn’t just take the stage – she owns it. Performing under the name BBQT (pronounced Bar-B-Cutie), Torres is a swaggering mix of the influences she wears on her sleeve – Suzi Quatro meets The Kids. I’d throw in Nikki and the Corvettes, as well. BBQT is on the first leg of an East Coast tour in support of their first LP, Let’s Go!
Former Bam Bam and total rock & roller Gabbie Torres immerses herself in a swaggering mix of influences, from Suzi Quatro and Selena to Brian Eno and Johnny Thunders.
Redemption in rock and roll is a cliché, but like all clichés, it is grounded in truth. It’s also not just for big rock stars, but also for everyday people who find the strength to overcome their demons through electric guitars, power chords and a good beat.
It’s just past 10:00 p.m. on a sweltering summer night in New York’s East Village when she bounds on stage, clad in a silver spandex metallic cat suit and bright red sunglasses. Gabriela “Gabbie” Torres doesn’t just take the stage – she owns it. Performing under the name BBQT (pronounced Bar-B-Cutie), Torres is a swaggering mix of the influences she wears on her sleeve – Suzi Quatro meets The Kids. I’d throw in Nikki and the Corvettes, as well. BBQT is on the first leg of an East Coast tour in support of their first LP, Let’s Go!
TAV FALCO
MAKE ME KNOW YOU'RE MINE
Some questions are easier to answer than others. If your question is, “Who is Tav Falco?” there is no easy answer. In their new short film, Tav Falco – Make Me Know You’re Mine, filmmakers JP Olsen and Kristen Nutile capture Falco as he prepares for the opening of a U.S. tour with a band that includes bassist Mike Watt (Minutemen, firehose, The Stooges) and drummer Toby Dammit (Iggy Pop, Swans, The Residents).
Some questions are easier to answer than others. If your question is, “Who is Tav Falco?” there is no easy answer. In their new short film, Tav Falco – Make Me Know You’re Mine, filmmakers JP Olsen and Kristen Nutile capture Falco as he prepares for the opening of a U.S. tour with a band that includes bassist Mike Watt (Minutemen, firehose, The Stooges) and drummer Toby Dammit (Iggy Pop, Swans, The Residents).
PUNK ROCK TO POLITICS
ED FOTHERINGHAM
A VISUAL WORLD
Illustrator Ed Fotheringham speaks to PKM about his Trump illustrations, his punk rock past, and his artwork for Mudhoney, the Supersuckers, Elvis Costello, Diana Krall, and Bob Dylan.
As a young man, Seattle-based illustrator Ed Fotheringham cut his teeth on the chaotic energy of punk rock. Born in Portland, Oregon but raised in Australia, Fotheringham spent the early to mid-Eighties as a student at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he met both Mark Arm and Steve Turner. Before Arm and Turner went on to form Mudhoney, they played with Fotheringham in various bands, most notably The Thrown Ups. As lead singer, Fotheringham pushed the limits of both music and good taste.
A VISUAL WORLD
Illustrator Ed Fotheringham speaks to PKM about his Trump illustrations, his punk rock past, and his artwork for Mudhoney, the Supersuckers, Elvis Costello, Diana Krall, and Bob Dylan.
As a young man, Seattle-based illustrator Ed Fotheringham cut his teeth on the chaotic energy of punk rock. Born in Portland, Oregon but raised in Australia, Fotheringham spent the early to mid-Eighties as a student at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he met both Mark Arm and Steve Turner. Before Arm and Turner went on to form Mudhoney, they played with Fotheringham in various bands, most notably The Thrown Ups. As lead singer, Fotheringham pushed the limits of both music and good taste.
Bernard King
BECOMING AN NBA LEGEND
Nov 8, 2017—When Bernard King suffered a devastating knee injury in 1985, doctors told him he would never play professional basketball again. But in his book, "Game Face: A Lifetime of Hard-Earned Lessons On and Off the Basketball Court," the NBA Hall of Famer details how he became the first player to return to the NBA following a torn ACL. He writes about his recovery, playing against greats like Michael Jordan and Patrick Ewing, and tackles issues of race and family.
Nov 8, 2017—When Bernard King suffered a devastating knee injury in 1985, doctors told him he would never play professional basketball again. But in his book, "Game Face: A Lifetime of Hard-Earned Lessons On and Off the Basketball Court," the NBA Hall of Famer details how he became the first player to return to the NBA following a torn ACL. He writes about his recovery, playing against greats like Michael Jordan and Patrick Ewing, and tackles issues of race and family.
Elvis Costello
SPILLS THE SECRETYS BEHIND HIS LEGENDARY ALBUMS
Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, grandson of a trumpet player on the White Star Line and son of a jazz musician who became a successful radio dance-band vocalist. Costello went into the family business, and, before he was twenty-four, took the popular music world by storm. In his memoir, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, he reveals the process behind writing and recording legendary albums like My Aim Is True, This Year’s Model, Armed Forces, Almost Blue, Imperial Bedroom, and King of America and tells the detailed stories, experiences, and emotions behind such beloved songs as “Alison,” “Watching the Detectives,” and “Radio Radio.” (Oct 16, 2015)
Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, grandson of a trumpet player on the White Star Line and son of a jazz musician who became a successful radio dance-band vocalist. Costello went into the family business, and, before he was twenty-four, took the popular music world by storm. In his memoir, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, he reveals the process behind writing and recording legendary albums like My Aim Is True, This Year’s Model, Armed Forces, Almost Blue, Imperial Bedroom, and King of America and tells the detailed stories, experiences, and emotions behind such beloved songs as “Alison,” “Watching the Detectives,” and “Radio Radio.” (Oct 16, 2015)
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