FBI headquarters, Washington, DC. 1967. J. Edgar Hoover sat in his office reading a classified file labeled 10044438, the monkeys communist infiltration. His…
Memphis, Tennessee, 1970. Elvis Presley sat in his recording studio at American Sound, holding sheet music for two songs by a Brooklyn songwriter…
Los Angeles, 1971. [music] Neil Diamond sat alone in the recording studio at 3:00 a.m. attempting take number 47 [music] of the same…
Neil Diamond wrote a gentle ballad about young love. Innocent, [music] sweet, designed for teenage fans and their parents. 1994. Director Quentyn Tarantino…
Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco. November 25th, 1976. The Last Waltz, the band’s farewell concert. The guest list read like a rock and roll…
August 1969, a phone call that should have been every songwriter’s dream, felt more like a death sentence. Elvis Presley, the king himself,…
The Long Beach Arena in June 1973 was hosting the International Karate Championships, the largest martial arts tournament in America and arguably the…
NBC Studios, Burbank, California, March 1974. The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was the biggest talk show in America, pulling in 10 million…
January 13th, 1968. Folsome prison was buzzing with unusual energy. Even California’s most hardened inmates felt different that morning because Johnny Cash was…
Cash did it anyway. If you sing that song tonight, this show is finished. [snorts] Gerald Foresight said it quietly. No shouting, no…