In the 1980s, just about everyone owned a t-shirt that said FRANKIE SAY RELAX. Frankie Goes to Hollywood took the world by storm with their double-disc debut album (this was when there […]
I’ve been a fan of U2 since they first appeared in a club called Malibu on Long Island in 1981. Yeah, I had a fake ID back then – didn’t everybody? Over […]
The arrival of MTV and the growing popularity of music videos in the early 1980s coincided with a second “British Invasion”. These artists grew out of the punk-rock movement and were generally […]
I turned 18 in the year 1984. I say this because I approached this book as a memoir of my formative years. Music was very important to me at the time. I […]
Thoughts From the Mountain Top 