RON AND RUSSELL MAEL: STILL SQUEEZING OUT SPARKS
After 50 years and 25 albums and collaborations with a who’s who of rock ‘n’ roll, pop and...
Tosh Berman
GOIN’ HOME WITH THE ROLLING STONES
Thinking about moving into your first home away from the family? Well, there was a time when even...
REMEMBERING CAMERON AND THE LATE BOHEMIAN WORLD OF L.A.
Marjorie Cameron (1922-1995)—better known as ‘Cameron’—was a renegade even by the standards of L.A.’s various bohemian subcultures. An...
REMEMBERING MICHAEL MCCLURE: THE REAL LIZARD KING
The late poet Michael McClure (1932-2020) was always associated with the original Beat circle of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Snyder,...
MEEKSVILLE UK: JOE MEEK, ARCHITECT OF STARDOM
The legendary record producer and sound engineer Joe Meek (1929-1967) was a Freakbeat pioneer, an influence on everyone...
MY OWN PRIVATE BRIAN (JONES)
When Tosh Berman’s father, renowned Los Angeles artist Wallace Berman (who was among the figures featured on the...
ARCHITECT OF STARDOM: IRVING MILLS AND DUKE ELLINGTON
His “Elvis” was Duke Ellington, but he did far more than manage the careers of the Duke, Cab...
SCOTT WALKER: MAN OF MYSTERY
The enigmatic, fascinating composer and singer Scott Walker (1943-2019), who died last month, left a body of work...
KENNETH PITT: THE ARCHITECT WHO TURNED DAVID JONES INTO DAVID BOWIE
Bowie’s first manager was an old school, former publicist for Sinatra, Ellington, Jerry Lee Lewis and Manfred Mann,...
MICK JAGGER’S SHADOW IS GONE
Christopher Gibbs, an aesthete and a man of wealth and taste, was as essential to the Rolling Stones’...