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TOBY KEITH
Everybody’s got a story, and I love it when songwriters work theirs into the lyrics of country music. I was at the Hilton closest to Lo...
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GRANDMASTER FLASH
It was a sunny summer day in San Diego. A friend of mine was playing the role of concert promoter and had set up an event at the local co...
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RONNIE WOOD
Say you’re walking down a Parisian side street. You and your travel map are minding your own business until you turn the corner and sudd...
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REO SPEEDWAGON GUITARIST
My date ditched me while we were out at a fabulous party and I can’t thank him enough. I was all dressed up at the Beverly Wilshire hote...
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DICK VAN DYKE
Back when I was working in advertising, my creative partner and I wrote a TV commercial starring Dick Van Dyke. It was a qui...
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DJ RUN
I used to like this guy. I’d been a fan since 1983 when he and his friends introduced themselves to the world as Run-DMC. Back then he c...
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JON BATISTE
Six hundred years ago, in 1987, I met my first boyfriend, Mr. ____ Batiste. He told me he belonged to a musical family from New Orleans t...
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BRANDY
There were 40 people, at best, in this big, open soundstage, on a small studio lot in Hollywood. I was at a taping of the Source Sound La...
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50 CENT
Only 12 hours in, and this year is off to a great start!! After a night of quality celebrating in America's playground, I was headed ou...
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SNOOP DOGG
Smoke. Cloudy, white smoke drifting down the hall and permeating everybody’s everything. Snoop was down the hall. My frie...
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JOE SAMPLE
The hills are alive at the Montreux Jazz Festival. For the next few days, this cute little town will be up to its Swiss Alps in musicia...
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“WEIRD AL” YANKOVIC
In some strange turn of events, I was on a date with “Weird Al” Yankovic. We didn’t hike to the Hollywood sign as he’d originally sugge...
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