Unknown author – Jimi Hendrix – Extensive official – non-official discography + lyrics (1986)

James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer.

Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as the greatest and one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as “arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music.”

Born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at age 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the US Army, but was discharged the following year. Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, then Nashville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the chitlin’ circuit, earning a place in the Isley Brothers’ backing band and later with Little Richard, with whom he continued to work through mid-1965. He then played with Curtis Knight and the Squires before moving to England in late 1966 after bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals became his manager. Within months, Hendrix had earned three UK top ten hits with the Jimi Hendrix Experience: “Hey Joe”, “Purple Haze”, and “The Wind Cries Mary”. He achieved fame in the US after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and in 1968 his third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland, reached number one in the US. The double LP was Hendrix’s most commercially successful release and his first and only number one album. The world’s highest-paid performer, he headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 before his accidental death in London from barbiturate-related asphyxia in September 1970.

Hendrix was inspired by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in popularizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He was also one of the first guitarists to make extensive use of tone-altering effects units in mainstream rock, such as fuzz distortion, Octavia, wah-wah, and Uni-Vibe. He was the first musician to use stereophonic phasing effects in recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented: “Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source. Players before him had experimented with feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled, fluid vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he began.”

Hendrix was the recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously. In 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year and in 1968, Billboard named him the Artist of the Year and Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the Year. Disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Rolling Stone ranked the band’s three studio albums, Are You Experienced (1967), Axis: Bold as Love (1967), and Electric Ladyland (1968), among the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”, and they ranked Hendrix as the greatest guitarist and the sixth-greatest artist of all time. Hendrix was named the greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone in 2023. (wikipedia)

And here´s a little “fanzine” from the 80´s … that was a time when we didn’t have the internet and therefore had to rely on such sources to find out as much as possible about this great artist.
Now completely outdated, of course, but still a fond memory of those days when freaks (somewhere in the world, perhaps from the Netherlands) took it upon themselves to produce such brochures (54 pages).

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The back of this magazine:

More from Jimi Hedrix in this blog:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Richard Barnes & Pete Townshend – The Story Of Tommy (1977)

Tommy is the fourth studio album by the English rock band the Who, first released on 19 May 1969. Primarily written by guitarist Pete Townshend, Tommy is a double album and an early rock opera that tells the story of the fictional Tommy Walker.

Townshend came up with the concept of Tommy after being introduced to the work of Meher Baba, and he attempted to translate Baba’s teachings into music. Recording of the album began in September 1968, but took six months to complete as material needed to be arranged and re-recorded in the studio. The Who promoted the album’s release with an extensive tour, including a live version of Tommy, which lasted throughout 1969 and 1970. Key gigs from the tour included appearances at Woodstock, the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival, the University of Leeds, the Metropolitan Opera House, and the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. The live performances of Tommy drew critical praise and revitalised the band’s career.

Upon its release, Tommy was acclaimed by critics, who hailed it as the Who’s breakthrough. Its critical standing diminished slightly in later years; nonetheless, several writers view it as an important and influential album in the history of rock music. In 1998, Tommy was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Subsequently, the rock opera was developed into other media, including a Seattle Opera production in 1971, an orchestral version by Lou Reizner in 1972, a film in 1975, and a Broadway musical in 1992. Tommy has been reissued several times on CD, including a remix by Jon Astley in 1996, a deluxe Super Audio CD in 2003, and a super deluxe box set in 2013, including previously unreleased demos and live material. (wikipedia)

Ad from 1969:

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… Tommy is a 1975 British musical fantasy drama film written and directed by Ken Russell and based on the Who’s 1969 rock opera album Tommy about a “psychosomatically deaf, mute, and blind” boy who becomes a pinball champion and religious leader.[5] The film featured a star-studded ensemble cast, including the band members themselves (most notably, lead singer Roger Daltrey, who plays the title role), Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Eric Clapton, Tina Turner, Elton John, and Jack Nicholson.

An independent production by Russell and Robert Stigwood, Tommy was released by Columbia Pictures in the US on 19 March 1975 while in the UK it was released by Hemdale Film Corporation on 26 March 1975. Ann-Margret received a Golden Globe Award for her performance and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Pete Townshend was also nominated for an Oscar for his work in scoring and adapting the music for the film. The film was shown at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition. In 1975, the film won the award for Rock Movie of the Year in the First Annual Rock Music Awards. (wikipedia)

And then

… this book was published in 1977 … It not only tells the story of this rock opera, but also the background to the Ken Ruselll film.

It became a full illustrated book with lots of information …

This book is a must for every The Who fan !

The book was written by Richard Barnes:

Richard Alan Barnes (born 3 October 1944) is an English author, best known for his association with the mod subculture and the rock group The Who, including his book on the group Maximum R&B. He gave The Who their name when he was roommates with Pete Townshend, after the group had originally been called The Detours.

Barnes started a course at Ealing Art College at the same time as Townshend and the two of them shared a flat together,[3] bonding over their mutual love for old R&B and soul records. Townshend subsequently said that Barnes was “very important to The Who’s thinking process in the early days. He and I used to sit around and talk about The Who as an installation, we wrote a manifesto for the group together.” When Townshend’s group, The Detours, needed a new name, the pair sat up all night suggesting joke names, until Barnes came up with The Who. The group’s singer, Roger Daltrey endorsed the new name the next day.

The High Numbers, accompanied by their friend Richard ‘Barney’ Barnes and their publicist Pete Meaden, dancing at the Scene Club in Soho in 1964.

The Scene Club was considered London’s key mod venue. Soon after this particular night the High Numbers were granted a residency at the Scene. An honour indeed.

In this photo from left to right are, John Entwistle, Keith Moon, Richard Barnes, Pete Townshend, Pete Meaden (looking sideways) and Roger Daltrey:

In early 1964, Barnes was working as a promoter for the Railway Hotel, Wealdstone. He removed all the lights in the pub apart from two pink ones, and turned up the heating to create a sweaty atmosphere. He managed to achieve average audience attendances of between 500 – 1000, including a weekly residency by The Who every Tuesday. Barnes believed The Who should have split up around the mid-1970s, and believes the only reason they stayed together was for the money.

In 1977, Barnes & Townshend collaborated on a book to coincide with the Ken Russell film of The Who’s rock-opera Tommy, entitled The Story Of Tommy.

1982 saw the first publication of The Who: Maximum R & B, an officially authorised biography of the band with photographs. After multiple pressings, the book is still in print.

In 1993 Barnes was listed as director and collaborator on Townshend’s “Psychoderelict solo album and theatrical American solo-tour that followed. Barnes was featured in the official and definitive documentary of the group: Amazing Journey – The Story Of The Who, directed by Murray Lerner and given a 2007 worldwide theatrical release.

Barnes was featured in the 2013 documentary on the making of the band’s 1973 Quadrophenia album: Quadrophenia: Can You See the Real Me, as well as many other documentaries focussed on the band’s and also specifically the members Pete Townshend and Keith Moon.

In 1979 Barnes wrote and compiled the book Mods!, in which he described the mod movement with particular emphasis in London.(wikipedia)

As a supplement to this presentation, I have included the official film book from 1975.

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The back of the book:

More from The Who in this blog:

The olfficial website:

Pete Frame – Rock Gazeeter Of Great Britain (1989)

Peter Frame (born 10 November 1942 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England) is an English music journalist and historian of rock music.

He has produced outlines of the history of rock bands for various magazines, such as Sounds, NME, Melody Maker and Rolling Stone. In 1969, Frame founded the English alternative rock magazine ZigZag. He was its editor, from its beginning until February 1973, and again from March 1976 until July 1977.He was also an A&R man for B&C Charisma Records, and the manager of the band, Starry Eyed and Laughing.

Five volumes of his Rock Family Trees have been published; the first two were joined as The Complete Rock Family Trees. He is also author of Rockin’ Around Britain.

In October 2007, his 500-page book, The Restless Generation – How rock music changed the face of 1950s Britain, was published by Rogan House.
Television series
The Rock Family Trees books were used as the basis for the BBC Television series Rock Family Trees in the 1990s, narrated by John Peel. (wikipedia)

And here´s a very interesting and rare book (170 pages):

My God … what a great book … Pete Frame & Co. have put a lot of work into this book … an incredible compendium!

Essential reading for any serious student of UK rock music, which of course dominates the world. Lots of short (often witty) paragraphs about rock’s famous places the length and
breadth of the land. Could do with an index though! (faqs.org)

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The back of the book:

The legendary Rock Family Trees by Pete Frame:

Sylvie Gibory, Gérard Porter & Gérald Deltroye – Les disques rares des annes 60 (80´s)

My God … what an interesting brochure (40 pages).
Unfortunately, I have not found any information about this marvellous compilation.

It’s a document of passion, passion for vinyl, passion for all those rare singles from the 60s.

The passion with which these people from France have put together this brochure is incredible.

Otherwise it would not have been possible to create all these cover illustrations and all the additional information.

And so I dedicate this entry to all the passionate collectors of the music that not only inspired many of us in the 60s, but probably also changed our lives.

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The back of the brochure:

Tom Glazer – A New Treasury Of Folk Songs (1961 – 1971)

Thomas Zachariah Glazer (September 2, 1914 – February 21, 2003) was an American folk singer and songwriter known primarily as a composer of ballads, including: “Because All Men Are Brothers”, recorded by The Weavers and Peter, Paul and Mary, “Talking Inflation Blues”, recorded by Bob Dylan, “The Ballad of FDR” and “A Dollar Ain’t A Dollar Anymore”. He wrote the lyrics to the songs “Melody of Love” (1954), and “Skokian” (1954).

Thomas Zachariah Glazer was born in Philadelphia on September 2, 1914, to Russian émigré parents from Minsk. His father, a carpenter in a shipyard, died during the 1918 flu pandemic, and Glazer was brought up by a series of relatives before being placed in the Hebrew Orphan Home in Philadelphia with his two brothers; his younger brother Sidney Glazier became a producer, most notably of Mel Brooks’s The Producers. Their father’s record collection influenced Glazer musically, and at school he learned to play the tuba, guitar and bass. At 17, he hitchhiked to New York, where he took night courses to complete his education while working at Macy’s during the day. He subsequently attended City College of New York for three years. He is of Jewish descent.

Glazer moved to Washington, D.C. and began work at the Library of Congress.[3] There he met Alan Lomax who worked for cataloguing American folk songs, and who was a great influence. Glazer began performing as an amateur and was invited by Eleanor Roosevelt to perform at the White House for soldiers working there as guards. He made a successful professional début at The Town Hall, New York City, in January 1943 during a blizzard, and in 1945 had a radio show Tom Glazer’s Ballad Box. His songs of the period, such as “A Dollar Ain’t a Dollar Anymore”, “Our Fight is Yours”, “When the Country is Broke”, and “Talking Inflation Blues” took strong social stands. Glazer’s songs were recorded by Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Burl Ives, The Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul and Mary, Perry Como and Frank Sinatra. He was part of the strong folk music scene in New York in the 1940s, and with Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Josh White helped prepare for the commercially successful folk revival of the 1960s. “He wasn’t fancy,” Seeger reported after his death “He was just straightforward. He had a good sense of humor.”

Glazer was married to Miriam Reed Eisenberg with whom he had two sons. The marriage ended in divorce in 1974.

Glazer recorded a number of children’s records in the late 1940s and early 1950s with Young People’s Records, Inc. In the 1960s he hosted a weekly children’s show on WQXR radio in New York. (wikipedia)

And here´s one of his books:

A new treasury of folk songs by Tom Glazer. The book was originally published in paperback in 1961.

Compiled from the best known sources by Tom Glazer, well-known folk musician and singer.
With special easy guitar accompaniments.

The original edition from 1961:

This comprehensive book contains a wide-ranging selection of favourite songs from many countries and eras. Work songs, dungeon songs, love songs, the sea, western ways – all chosen for consistent quality as well as variety.

Special addition – The Beginner Folk Guitarist. Tom Glazer invented a new, amazingly easy way to learn to play guitar. Teach yourself the basic “open-string” chords and 2 beat, 3 beat and free style rhythms.

I find it very interesting that many of these old songs are still very popular today … Folk songs of this kind are simply immortal !

I heard this song for the first time from The Spencer Davis Group:

I heard this song for the first time from Richie Havens (“Woodstock”):

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Front+backcover:

A short biography from the Billboard Magazine (1963):

Barry Miles – Rolling Stones – An illustrated discography (1980)

And here is another copy from my music library

Barry Miles (born 21 February 1943) is an English author known for his participation in and writing on the subjects of the 1960s London underground and counterculture. He is the author of numerous books and his work has also regularly appeared in leftist newspapers such as The Guardian. In the 1960s, he was co-owner of the Indica Gallery and helped start the independent newspaper International Times.
Biography

In the 1960s, Miles worked at Better Books, which was managed by Tony Godwin. Godwin was friends with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, with whom he would exchange Penguin books for City Lights publications. In 1965 Allen Ginsberg gave a reading at Better Books that led to the International Poetry Incarnation, a seminal event co-organised by Miles.

In 1965, Miles and his wife, the former Susan Crane, introduced Paul McCartney to hash brownies by using a recipe for hash fudge that they had found in The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook.

Following the International Poetry Incarnation, Miles established the Indica Gallery and Bookshop, allowing him to meet many of the stars of the Swinging London social scene.[4] Miles brought McCartney into contact with people who wanted to start International Times, which McCartney helped to fund.

With John Hopkins and Dave Howson, Miles organised The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream, a concert on 29 April 1967 at Alexandra Palace to raise funds for International Times. It was a multi-artist event, featuring poets, artists and musicians. Pink Floyd headlined the event; other artists included: Yoko Ono and John Lennon, Arthur Brown, jazz-rock group Soft Machine, Tomorrow and The Pretty Things.

Miles became the de facto manager of the Apple’s short-lived Zapple Records label in 1969. While temporarily living in California, Miles produced an album of poetry readings by Richard Brautigan entitled Listening to Richard Brautigan for Zapple. Miles’s friendship with Brautigan ended when Miles became involved in an affair with Brautigan’s girlfriend Valerie Estes. By the time, the album was completed Miles and Brautigan communicated to each other only through their respective lawyers. Zapple was closed before it could release the Brautigan album, but it was eventually released in 1970 by the U.S. division of Harvest Records.

Miles also produced Ginsberg’s Songs of Innocence and Experience LP, recorded in 1969 and released the following year. In 1970, Miles moved with his wife to rural New York state, where he lived with Ginsberg on his farm. However, Miles’s marriage soon ended and he returned to England. Miles currently lives in London and is married to travel writer Rosemary Bailey.

Miles’s book Hippie is a reminiscence of the Hippie sub-culture of the 1960s and early 1970s, with interviews, quotes, and images. He co-wrote I Want to Take You Higher (documenting the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum exhibit by the same name) with Charles Perry and James Henke.

Miles wrote Paul McCartney’s official biography, Many Years from Now (1998). Miles has also written biographies of Frank Zappa, John Lennon, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski and Ginsberg, in addition to books on The Beatles, Pink Floyd and The Clash, as well as a definitive history of London’s counterculture since 1945, London Calling.

In March 1978, Miles wrote an article critical of the band Rush and its drummer Neil Peart, which contentiously labeled the band as right-wing; Peart described himself as a “left-libertarian.” The article, published in UK’s New Musical Express, took exception to Peart’s advocacy of the Objectivist philosophy of Ayn Rand. Peart had also described the Sex Pistols as products of a “socialist” state. Miles also described Rand (a Russian anti-communist who had become an American citizen) as an “ultra right-wing American.” Miles focused on Peart’s politics and criticized the band’s perceived aloofness and libertarian rhetoric.

In a 2005 biography of Frank Zappa, Miles criticized Zappa regarding his business-oriented approach to art and complaints about inefficient labor union regulations.[16] Zappa regularly described himself as “a devout capitalist” and attempted to broker joint commercial ventures with business interests in the former Soviet Union following the end of the Cold War in 1991. (wikipedia)

And here´s is his Rolling Stones discography from 1980:

A small paperback book made superfluous by better books:
This book features black and white photos and is copyright 1980. It tells you basics of each album in list form. Very few sentences. Its the only discography that tries to give an account of the production by each member outside of the band. Its got a large list of Bill Wyman’s production work for bands like Tucky Buzzard, which I’d never seen before. Additionally its got a section of each members session work and records released by their eponymous record label. It included side work by Mick Taylor which I’d never seen attempted before. I doubt it was complete. About a third of the book is a listing of bootleg vinyl recordings out there which is actually the most useful thing and interesting for historical reasons as one of the most successful bootlegs was of the Rolling Stones, which became a huge industry after the first truly successful bootleg (of Bob Dylan) helped put the bootleg recording industry on the map , along with the typical disclaimer saying they don’t condone that type of thing. (Thank Goodness!!!!). The book has no index. If you click on my name you’ll see my other reviews and I recommend 3 Rolling Stone Discography books that are much more worthwhile than this one, and I explain the plus and minuses of each one and in effect which one will fit which type of reader’s or collector’s needs. Each of the three has something to recommend it depending on your needs. The authors of those three are Martin Elliot, Steve Appleford, and Alan Clayson. (A. Perer)

Of course, there is now more recent discography from the Rolling Stones … but this discography was a beginning, and therefore an important example of the emerging rock music literature of the time.

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The official Barry Miles website:

Daniel Leseur – Les discques rares des annees 60 (Rare discs from the 60s) (1978)

During the seventies, the interest in old singles from the sixties began to increase more and more; in general, the scene of record collectors grew and grew.

Therefore, the interest in discographies, label catalogues and other information about rarities grew.

E.g. with singles and EPs of British and American beat and rock music; there you could find many and often expensive rarities.

Here is a rare overview of all the singles and EPs that were released especially for the French record market.

Unfortunately, the illustrations are only in black and white, but that was of course a question of printing costs.

This booklet (40 pages) is, of course, a paradies, a goldmine for serious record collectors like myself.

Enjoy this trip into the roaring Sixties !

And I’ve discovered bands that I’ve never heard of before, such as The Panthers, Warm Sounds, Wet  The People, The Loot or The Sheiks and many more …

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The backside of the booklet:

And I am still enthusiastic !

Peter Guralnick – The Listener’s Guide To The Blues (1982)

This is another out of print book from my Collection of Music books …

By delving into the livesm influences and recordings of the great blues makers, The Listener´s Guide To The Blues provides a unique tour through the growth and development of one of America´s finest Musical forms.

“If you were to only get one book about the blues, this is it. It provides all the necessary biographical and background information in short, readable chapters, and then discusses the albums most worth checking out for every artist and every style. Indispensable” (Patrick)

Abouth the author:

Peter Guralnick is an American music critic, writer on music, and historian of US American popular music, who is also active as an author and screenwriter. He has been married for over 45 years to Alexandra. He has a son and daughter, Jacob and Nina.

Guralnick’s first two books, Almost Grown (1964) and Mister Downchild (1967), were short story collections published by Larry Stark, whose small press in Cambridge, Larry Stark Press, was devoted to stories and poems. Mona Dickson, writing in MIT’s The Tech (May 13, 1964) gave Almost Grown a favorable review.

After Guralnick graduated from Boston University in 1971 with a master’s degree in creative writing, he began writing books chronicling the history of blues, country, rock and roll and soul.

Peter Guralnick with Chuck Berry, 2012

His two-volume biography of Elvis Presley, Last Train to Memphis in 1994, followed by Careless Love in 1999, placed the story of Presley’s career into a rise and fall arc. Encompassing more than 1,300 pages (including 1,150 pages of text), the work countered earlier biographies such as Albert Goldman’s Elvis from 1981 with an in-depth, scholarly examination of Presley’s life and music. Guralnick had previously written on Presley in the The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll, starting with the first edition in 1976, said article having been reprinted for each subsequent edition.

Larry Stark Press published Peter Guralnick’s second book in 1967. A first edition is currently valued at $200.

In contrast to contemporaries such as Lester Bangs, Ian Penman and Nick Tosches, whose music writings are marked by idiosyncratic, self-referential and highly personal styles, Guralnick’s writing is characterized by a colloquial approach that is clean and understated by comparison. In his best passages, he has an ability to simultaneously empathize and remain objective. Writing as a music fan, his enthusiasm powers his writing but doesn’t overpower it.

Guralnick wrote the script for A&E’s documentary, Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll, narrated by Billy Bob Thornton, and he also scripted Sam Cooke – Legend, narrated by Jeffrey Wright. (by goodreads.com)

This is an essential book about the blues and about all These great blues recordings through the last century

Here are some pics from the good … before you can read the book:

 

 

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Robin Leach + Ron Hutcheson – Go – Pop Annual (1968)

Here´s another item from my collection of music books.

GO Magazine was a North America-wide free newspaper/magazine that was distributed between 1967 and 1969. Believe it or not, the editor was Robin Leach (yes, the guy who later became famous for “Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous”). Basically, it contained syndicated articles about Top 40 artists and was the same in every city.

Here some more informations about Robin Leach:

Robin Douglas Leach (born 29 August 1941) is an English-born American entertainment celebrity reporter writer famous for hosting his first show, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, in the mid-1980s and into the mid-1990s, which focused on profiling well-known celebrities and their lavish homes, cars and other materialistic endeavors. His voice is often parodied by other actors with his signature phrase, “champagne wishes and caviar dreams.” During the final season, he was assisted by Shari Belafonte, and the show was renamed, Lifestyles with Robin Leach and Shari Belafonte. During grammar school at Harrow County School for Boys, 10 miles (16 km) from London, he edited a school magazine, The Gayton Times, at age 14. At age 15 he became a general news reporter for the Harrow Observer and started a monthly glossy town magazine at age 17. Leach moved on to the Daily Mail as Britain’s youngest “Page One” reporter, at age 18. In 1963, he emigrated to America and wrote for a number of publications (New York Daily News, People, Ladies Home Journal etc.) before launching GO Magazine and then was show business editor of The Star. Other television work includes reporting for People Tonight, on

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