A Curious George
Lary Wallace reviews "A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George."...
Lary Wallace
Lary Wallace is an eccentric-at-large and the features editor of Bangkok Post: The Magazine.
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Marvin’s Muse
Jan Gaye, Marvin Gaye's second wife, has finally written her own book, a memoir called After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye....
We Lie About Love
Lary Wallace Interviews Clancy Martin on his new book, "Love and Lies: An Essay on Truthfulness, Deceit, and the Growth and Care of Erotic Love "...
The Escapes and Escapades of Rick James
There’s no logical reason Rick James should have lived as long as he did....
Paul McCartney: The Wilderness Years
If Paul McCartney wasn’t a Beatle, then who was he? What was he?...
Duane Allman, Skydog, Explained
JIMI HENDRIX lived nearly three years longer — that’s the kind of premature we’re talking about when we talk about the premature death of Duane Allman, who died less than a month before he would have turned 25. It happened ...
Bobsession
We don’t choose our obsessions; our obsessions choose us. Nowhere is this truer than in the obsessive following Bob Dylan has amassed since his rise to fame in the early 1960s....
The Donald Fagen Papers
In his new collection of essays, Fagen pays tribute to the culture that spawned his sensibility and sound....
Here’s Johnny
Henry Bushkin writes about his complicated relationship with the late Johnny Carson, his friend, client, and confidante....
The Richard Pryor Show
OUT IN ONTARIO where he believed the women and money were supposed to be, Richard Pryor was looking at the latest Newsweek (June 17, 1963) when he came across a full-page article on a black stand-up comedian whose name was not ...
Parker’s Theme: An Overture
TO GET THAT QUIVER he wanted, he’d take the reed of his saxophone and make it just the right kind of fine, applying sandpaper, fire, and knife. “He was trying everything he could think of to push his pitches through ...
Prince in Perpetuity: Touré’s “I Would Die 4 U”
IT’S ALWAYS BEEN EASIER to admire the idea of Prince than the music of Prince. Mastering every aspect of music — its making and its marketing — he proceeded, like Amundsen with polar exploration, to develop the tricks of tradecraft that would ...
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