After 50 years and 25 albums and collaborations with a who’s who of rock ‘n’ roll, pop and cinema, you’d think Sparks would be better known. Well, this year mig...
Thinking about moving into your first home away from the family? Well, there was a time when even the members of the Rolling Stones had to go through that rite ...
Marjorie Cameron (1922-1995)—better known as ‘Cameron’—was a renegade even by the standards of L.A.’s various bohemian subcultures. An artist and occultist, she...
The late poet Michael McClure (1932-2020) was always associated with the original Beat circle of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Snyder, Ferlinghetti but he was so much more...
The legendary record producer and sound engineer Joe Meek (1929-1967) was a Freakbeat pioneer, an influence on everyone from Eno and Pink Floyd to any number of...
When Tosh Berman's father, renowned Los Angeles artist Wallace Berman (who was among the figures featured on the cover of the Sgt. Pepper’s album), brought home...
His “Elvis” was Duke Ellington, but he did far more than manage the careers of the Duke, Cab Calloway and Hoagy Carmichael. Irving Mills got his hand in every...
The enigmatic, fascinating composer and singer Scott Walker (1943-2019), who died last month, left a body of work that will take years to fully absorb. Starting...
Bowie’s first manager was an old school, former publicist for Sinatra, Ellington, Jerry Lee Lewis and Manfred Mann, but he was also a gentleman who provided his...
His father, Wallace Berman, was one of the best-known artists in America, featured on the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Tosh had ...
Christopher Gibbs, an aesthete and a man of wealth and taste, was as essential to the Rolling Stones' early look and aura as Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry were t...
