The man who wrote Save the Last Dance for Me spent most of his life on crutches. Doc Pomus could not dance. He was stricken with polio as a child and that Drifters hit came about after Pomus watched his wife dance with other men at the wedding of Drifters lead singer Ben E. King. King heard about the story
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Ozzy Osbourne was in his early 30s when his first solo album came out and, during a radio interview, the former (and future) Black Sabbath frontman said his wife, Sharon, wondered how long Ozzy’s career would last. “Have you ever seen a 50-year-old rock and roller?” Given Ozzy’s drug and alcohol abuse and being kicked out of Sabbath for his
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Whether it’s a class photo from grade 7, or a high school yearbook, I’ve often studied the photos, paused and thought, “She’s pretty. Why didn’t I notice her back then?” We’re talking mid to late ’70s and the answer is, her family was from Guyana or China. Flash forwarded to the ’80s when I developed a crush on Terrilyn Joe,
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In the summer of 2007, I bought an album by a singer I’d never heard of, at a store that is long gone, The CD Shuffle in Wasaga Beach. The owner commented on my purchase. “She used to be in adult films.” Honestly, I had no clue as to the colourful history of Candye Kane, but the title intrigued me:
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As a rock fan and, later, the host of a rock and roll radio show, I saw this meme/quote online and thought, “Stupid old fart.” How dare old blue eyes insult Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Haley and whoever else knocked him off the charts? Then again, rock and roll pushed big band jazz, and crooners like
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