Most comedians only aim to make you laugh, but Robin Williams never ends his show until you’re crying from laughter. Now, uh I must ask you this might be too personal, but uh we we >> When Robin Williams stepped onto the stage, the audience had no idea they were about to forget how to…
There is a reel of magnetic tape sitting in the archive collection of a private music historian in Lowe’s Angels that has no official catalog number, no label, no date written on its outer casing. It was found in 1994 at the bottom of a cardboard box that had passed through four different storage facilities…
The last person Jim Morrison spoke to at length on the night of his final New Orleans concert was not a band member. It was not a manager, not a journalist, not one of the dozens of people who had attached themselves to the gravitational field of the Door’s touring operation and called themselves insiders….
It was summer 1969 and backstage at one of the biggest rock festivals of the year. Two legends were about to meet for the first time. Mick Jagger, the undisputed king of rock and roll performance, and Jim Morrison, the dark poet who was redefining what it meant to command a stage. Nobody knew that…
Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, they are so subtle they could milk you with two notes. They could go no farther than from an A to a B and they could make you feel like they told you the whole universe. And Otis, my man, I think maybe if I keep singing, maybe I’ll get it….
There was a night in the late 1970s when scorpions played a club in the American Midwest and looked out from the stage at a room that was less than half full. The lights were up too bright, the way club lights always are when the crowd is thin, and the promoters stopped trying to…
November 1970, Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee. The temperature outside had dropped to 34 degrees by the time the black Mercedes pulled into the hospital service entrance on Madison Avenue. It was 3:00 in the morning. The driver cut the headlights before the car came to a full stop. Elvis Presley stepped out alone. He…
Elvis was walking down Beiel Street when he heard his own voice coming from a guitar case on the sidewalk. But it wasn’t a recording. It was a 16-year-old kid who had no idea his life was about to change forever. It was a humid Tuesday afternoon in Memphis, July 1976. Elvis had been feeling…
She appeared from nowhere during Elvis’s most intimate song. And when the spotlight hit her face, Elvis stopped singing completely. The woman’s identity would explain mysteries about Elvis that fans had wondered about for years. It was August 16th, 1976, exactly one year before Elvis would leave this world, and he was performing at the…
September 1965, the Blue Moon Club, Memphis, Tennessee. Johnny Cash was in the middle of performing I Walk the Line for an intimate crowd of about 200 people when something unusual happened. The audience, which had been completely focused on Cash’s performance, suddenly shifted their attention toward the back of the room. People started whispering,…
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