GENERATIONS

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It was night when I arrived back in Los Angeles, and driving home, I could see a thirty-foot can of spinach being tugged down Hollywood Boulevard, spot-lit, surrounded by limousines. There really is no place like it.  Early evening almost two weeks later, I was walking around my front room and listening to Bruce Springsteen’s […]

When I was 12 Elvis joined the Army. He was taken to boot camp where they cut off all his hair. It was awful to see him lose his hair. But it never occurred to me that Elvis wouldn’t go into the army. Why would it have?  (“Elvis died in the army,” John Lennon later […]

http://youtu.be/_zY_cM0_6vA For FULL SCREEN click on video control bar far right. While The Beatles were singing: “Love, love me, do,” Peter, Paul, and Mary -along with Joan Baez – were spreading the Word according to Bob Dylan. While they paved the way with the, in retrospect, surprisingly gentle “Blowin’ in the Wind,” Dylan went on […]

At first it was Meet The Beatles, but shortly it was “Have you seen the Stones?” Staring at you were five Englishmen, unsmiling, even stranger than The Beatles. Brian Jones! With his long hair to his shoulders. Jagger’s lips! Of all of them Brian leaped off the page at me. If the fellow I saw […]

For FULL SCREEN click on video control bar far right. At first it was Meet The Beatles, but shortly it was “Have you seen the Stones?” Staring at you were five Englishmen, unsmiling, even stranger than The Beatles. Brian Jones! With his long hair to his shoulders. Jagger’s lips! Of all of them Brian leaped […]

“My room was tucked away at the top of a three-story house, past the attic room where the suitcases were kept. My brother and I would roam the top floor, our plastic flintlock rifles cocked, and ambush each other. On television Fess Parker as Davy Crockett, the strong, serene American hero, told us, “Be sure […]

In 1968 I am twenty-two, living in London, not clear what I am going to do with my life, but trying to write, and working part time with autistic children in St. John’s Wood. Jon is in London on a Guggenheim fellowship and is the London correspondent for Rolling Stone. When Jon was first introduced […]

“Double Fantasy is John’s first record in more than four years.  intermittently we have heard of his “lost weekend” in Los Angeles, his return to Yoko, his stint as a “house husband.”  The secretary ushers me into the office where the operating head of the company sits behind his desk. He wears a beard, appears […]

For FULL SCREEN click on video control bar far right. Roy Brown http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO_r1drXn0I&feature=youtube_gdata_player Elvis Presley “But at the same time Truman was announcing the loyalty oath, another, arguably more impactful, movement, was unnoticed.While the communist cauldron was seething, rock and roll was being born. In 1947 in blues artist Roy Brown’s sings “Good Rocking Tonight”, […]