Thank You Peter: People Who Introduced Me To Bands I Love!
I do love him like I used to do
Yes, no man is an island and no, it takes more than a rock critic to introduce us to a world of music. It takes a world of people much more useful than a Spotify Recommends! Here are some of mine!!!
My Dad – Broadway tunes – He used to sing “The Lullabye Of Broadway” and mangle “hip hooray and ballyhoo”!!
My Mom – Jim Reeves – She loved all those Yank pop singers, the Connie Francis, lipstick on your collar Patti Page stuff. But especially Jim Reeves and “He’s Got To Go”
My sister Nadia – Presley and Cliff Richards
All three sisters – The Beatles
My brother Fayez – Chuck Berry and Jimi Hendrix
My sister Feriel – The Monkees
Tarif Abboushi – My own personal David Watts without the smugness. Put it this way, he played Romeo in the school play, I was the prompter. Introduced me to Elton John.
Henri Chahinian- One of my best friends, very into Motown, the Supremes. All those folks . He died of AIDS in the 1980s.
Peter Bogdanovitch – The soundtrack to “The Last Picture Show” plus my love of Jim Reeves made me a life long country fan.
My sister Rima – Gilber O’Sullivan but also the Temptations, all those Stax guys and better still Sam Cooke
My friend Lindi – Dated my cousin and broke up with him but we remained friends and she started dating the drummer with the Drones and that was my intro into punk.
Nick Kent – His review of “Marquee Moon” introduced me to Television.
Disco Dee – An early rapper turned me onto the scene.
Glenn Tilbrook – Introduced me to Shoskavovich during an interview
Bill Holdship – Assigned me to Marshall Crenshaw interview because he knew I’d love him
Elvis Costello – George Jones and Patsy Cline during his “And Friends” performance with Jones.
