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The Beatles: Their Hollywood and Los Angeles Connection
By Harvey Kubernik © 2024 “Hollywood and the Beatles...
Remembering Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens & The Big Bopper
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New Book on Laurel Canyon from Author Jan Alan Henderson Published; By Harvey Kubernik © 2020
Whispers From the Canyons of Mountain Laurel is the eleventh book project Jan Henderson has been involved in, and a career that spans three and a half decades. It is his second foray into fiction, after writing film and television articles and essays for...
50TH Anniversary of Derek and the Dominos’ Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
To Be Released November 13TH From Ume/Polydor; Bobby Whitlock Interview; Chris Darrow on guitarist Duane Allman By Harvey Kubernik c 2020 This November sees the release of 50th Anniversary edition of Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, available as a 4LP...
Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories Biography by Author Michael Posner
To be published by Simon & Schuster in Canada during October Collector’s Edition Montreal Leonard Cohen Memorial Commemorative Box Set Out By Harvey Kubernik Poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon—there has never been a figure like Leonard...
Bill Wyman Archive Auction; Wyman Interview
Goin’ Home With The Rolling Stones ’66 Gered Mankowitz New Photography Book Due in October By Harvey Kubernik © 2020 The Rolling Stones original bassist, Bill Wyman, recently auctioned items related to the band, collected by him during his long tenure with the...
Janis Lyn Joplin
January 19, 1943 Port Arthur, Texas--October 4, 1970, Hollywood, California By Harvey Kubernik © 2020 50 years ago on October 4. 1970 at the Landmark Hotel in Hollywood the performer and singer Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose. Singer/songwriter, producer...
Elton John: His United States Debut at Doug Weston’s Troubadour August 25, 1970
50 Years On By Harvey Kubernik © 2020 I was an avid reader of Melody Maker since 1964. I first became aware of Elton John’s Empty Sky DJM record label first LP in June of 1969. I ordered it as an English import from Lewin Record Paradise on Hollywood Blvd. His piano...
Bob Marley in 2020
Amazon Music Launches [RE]DISCOVER in Global Support of Artist Catalogs Across All Music Genres; The initiative kicks off with Bob Marley as [RE]DISCOVER’s Artist of the Month; Marley’s iconic Legend album to stream in 3D Audio exclusively on Amazon Music HD later...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Déjà Vu 50 Years On By Harvey Kubernik Copyright 2020 50 years ago this past spring Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young released their debut LP Déjà Vu. Although perceived as a group effort, nine out of Déjà Vu’s 10 songs (the exception being “Woodstock”) were...
Charles Bukowski 100 Years On
By Harvey Kubernik Copyright 2020 August 16, 2020 Marks the 100th birthday of short story writer, columnist, poet and novelist Charles Bukowski, born Heinrich Karl Bukowski in Andernach, Germany, who relocated with his parents to Los Angeles California at age 3. His...