Tag Archives: RIP

PRINCE RIP

Prince’s first show was at the Minneapolis’ Capri Theater on January 5, 1979. Throughout his long career the rock star performed his music at 1,332 concerts. I was lucky enough to catch his Palladium gig in December 1981. Richie Boy, my coke connection, and I was walking down West 14th Street and the concert hall’s […]

Nancy BJ

Nancy Reagan supposedly gave the best head in Hollywood during the 1940s. Old Dutch the President never got any, but she wasn’t beyond fellating Frank Sinatra in the White House bathroom. And more than once. The ole Cocksuckette died this week The Right sang her praises. We remember her not allowing her friend Rock Hudson […]

Gloria Leonard RIP

The Daily News reported that Gloria Leonard, a ex-porn actress who was also a publisher of High Society magazine, died at the age of 73 in Hawaii. The buxom brunette was a 35 year-old single mother, when she starred in the legendary MISTY BEETHOVEN. The nice Jewish girl from the Bronx fought for free speech […]

METAL MACHINE MUSIC

In 1975 RCA demanded an LP from Lou Reed and the ex-Velvet Underground frontman gave Clive Davis METAL MACHINE MUSIC. “I don’t see a single in this.” Clive Davis I doubt he listened to it all, but supposedly only the sound engineer accomplished that stygian feat. Rolling Stone’s review said METAL MACHINE MUSIC sounded like […]

Barney Johnson LIVING FOREVER

Last night I attended a wake for a fellow atheist. The service was at a Ukrainian Funeral Home in the East Village. Barney and I had met in 1978. He was my boss at Hurrah, a punk disco on West 62nd Street. He survived the era of errors to be a proudly gay man with […]