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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...

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Kim Fowley On The Beatles

Kim Fowley On The Beatles

As told to Harvey Kubernik C 2012 “In 1963 I was driving with Danny Hutton on the way to the beach, and the Beatles’ ‘Please Please Me’ came on the radio, and we both said, ‘The Everly Brothers with a third harmony part and Carole King and Gerry Goffin melodies. This...

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Kim Fowley On The Summer Of Love

Kim Fowley On The Summer Of Love

Kim Fowley is a gas. I was his friend and worked on a whole bunch of music projects with him. He had wit and wisdom of survival, and vision in the music business. I was listening to his Outlaw Superman album late at night recently and just started cracking up, because...

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Mary Wilson of the Supremes

Mary Wilson of the Supremes

By Harvey Kubernik c 2016 2014 marked the 50th anniversary of the release of the Supremes’ first number-one hit single, “Where Did Our Love Go,” the first of five such consecutive hit singles. In 2016, and always carrying the legacy for the Supremes, after the...

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Harvey Kubernik On Sir George Martin

Harvey Kubernik On Sir George Martin

George Martin  a grand soul. He will be missed. He knew how  to make the music come alive  and touch the soul  he gave breath  and depth  to notes and words. He helped create  musical masterworks. He made a huge impact on so many lives. I met him a few times  and he...

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Paul Kantner Tribute and Interview

Paul Kantner Tribute and Interview

By Harvey Kubernik c 2016 Paul Kantner, a founding member of Jefferson Airplane, died on Thursday, January 28th in San Francisco. He was age 74. The cause of his physical passing was multiple organ failure brought on by septic shock. Kantner had been plagued with some...

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D.A. Pennebaker on David Bowie

D.A. Pennebaker on David Bowie

With the passing of David Bowie, Cave Hollywood thought it was appropriate to display a 2003 interview Harvey Kubernik conducted with Oscar-winning filmmaker and documentarian, D.A. Pennebaker, who directed 1973’s Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. The...

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Ice Cube

Ice Cube

By Harvey Kubernik (C)) 2004 and (C) 2015 Growing up in Los Angeles, Ice Cube (O’Shea Jackson) treasured the music of Parliament/ Funkadelic, Rick James and James Brown.  In 1983, at fourteen, he was writing his own raps, and later, after catching an Ice-T show for...

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