Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco. November 25th, 1976. The Last Waltz, the band’s farewell concert. The guest list read like a rock and roll hall of fame. Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton,...
August 1969, a phone call that should have been every songwriter’s dream, felt more like a death sentence. Elvis Presley, the king himself, wanted to record Neil Diamond’s song. But...
The Long Beach Arena in June 1973 was hosting the International Karate Championships, the largest martial arts tournament in America and arguably the largest in the world. 3,000 people filled...
NBC Studios, Burbank, California, March 1974. The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was the biggest talk show in America, pulling in 10 million viewers on an average night, sometimes more....
The folder arrived on Lieutenant Commander Bradley Vicker’s desk at 0632 on a Thursday morning in March of 2009. He had been in Afghanistan for 8 months. The cover sheet...
January 13th, 1968. Folsome prison was buzzing with unusual energy. Even California’s most hardened inmates felt different that morning because Johnny Cash was coming. And nobody knew that on this...
Cash did it anyway. If you sing that song tonight, this show is finished. [snorts] Gerald Foresight said it quietly. No shouting, no threats, just a man who believed he...
April 3rd, 1971, Nashville Municipal Auditorium. What started as a friendly tribute concert turned into one of the most powerful spiritual moments in music history. Johnny Cash in front of...
The last line of the memo read, “We thought the warning was about protecting them. It was about protecting our assumptions. They did not need protection. Our assumptions «...
Marcus Brennan watched the thermal feed from the Predator drone circling at 4,000 m above Sangin Valley. The screen showed four heat signatures lying motionless in a depression 800 m...