Multi-Colored Lady

Cher is dying and telling all—according to the National Enquirer. I once bumped into Cher backstage at an Allman Brothers concert. She was alone, leaning against a wall in a hallway—Gregg and the Brothers were out front finishing their “Les Brers In A Minor” encore—while me and the co-creator of the radio show I worked […]

Not the Fifth Beatle

Beatles manager Brian Epstein was the Fifth Beatle. New York DJ Murray the K was the Fifth Beatle too. Fifth Beatle status has been applied to many— Beatle personal assistant Neil Aspinall, Andy White who played drums on the Beatles’ first hit record “Love Me Do,” original Beatle bassist Stuart Sutcliffe, to name just a few. […]

Uncle Atticus and the Confederate Flag

The revelation from Harper Lee’s recently released novel “Go Set A Watchman” which caught so many by surprise—that the civil rights hero of “To Kill A Mockingbird,” Atticus Finch, is a racist, was not particularly surprising to many of us Southerners—that is, to those of us who have our own Uncle Atticuses tucked away in our […]