I chanced upon two things this morning that really struck a chord (you’ll get the pun when you see that both are about famous musicians). First, my Twitter feed offered up this jewel of an article about Carol Kaye called “The Beach Girl Behind the Beach Boys”. The Beach Boys were what I was raised on in 1970’s southern California, and I spent countless Saturdays dancing with my mother to their records as we put away the laundry and dusted the bookshelves. I was thrilled and s

Prince died today. He was one of the people from my heyday, though I was more in the Cyndi Lauper camp at the time (note that he did write her When You Were Mine). As I grew older I could appreciate how clearly talented and innovative he was – a true Renaissance Man in purple brocade. In the rainbow of posts documenting his career, I chanced upon this video of Dick Clark interviewing a very self-assured yet casual-cool 19 year old Prince. In this screen shot he’s explaining t