Squeezing Money Out of Rock

Original Publication: New York Magazine – February 11, 1980.             Irving Azoff is throwing chocolates out of the window of his speeding limousine, just wafting them right out there onto the…

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The Beat Comes East

Original Publication: New York Magazine – March 26, 1979 Take a night, any night, right now in Manhattan. Kiss is rehearsing. David Bowie, James Taylor, and Carly Simon are recording….

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The Flip Side of Mike Curb’s Career

Original Publication: November 6, 1978. By Maureen Orth and Bruce Henderson.             “Mike Curb will help the working man, the senior citizen, everybody,” announces one TV commercial. “He’s active, he’s dedicated,…

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