My favorite music memoirs…  Ozzy - I am Ozzy / Tommy James - Me, the Mob and Music / Don Felder - Heaven and Hell / Tony Visconti - Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy / The Beatles - Anthology

Lance Armstrong should be his understudy.  As the Broadway saying goes… the show must go on!  

Lance Armstrong should be his understudy.  As the Broadway saying goes… the show must go on!  

I hope the show gets picked up so they can have the Standells on to perform a hit song by… oh I don't know… Mumford and Sons or something.

I hope the show gets picked up so they can have the Standells on to perform a hit song by… oh I don't know… Mumford and Sons or something.

It is very confusing.  And I don't get the Sousa component here either.  Bizarro.

It is very confusing.  And I don't get the Sousa component here either.  Bizarro.

Except for that hilarious Hazel character of course.

Except for that hilarious Hazel character of course.

The only thing this episode was missing to make it perfect was a guest appearance by Ted McGinley.

The only thing this episode was missing to make it perfect was a guest appearance by Ted McGinley.

I liked the B and C plots better and think they deserved more than a paragraph.  But then again, I don't think women are funny. 

I liked the B and C plots better and think they deserved more than a paragraph.  But then again, I don't think women are funny. 

You should have asked her what it was like testifying to congress that those aren't her boobs on display in Blue Lagoon.

You should have asked her what it was like testifying to congress that those aren't her boobs on display in Blue Lagoon.

I think the recording is on youtube… check out how grim he sounds.

I think the recording is on youtube… check out how grim he sounds.

Del Shannon had 8 top 40 hits in the US and 14 in the UK.  His cover of the Beatles "From Me To You" was the first Lennon/McCartney song to enter the charts.  He has long been cited as an influence on a number of big acts.  The song "Runaway" was one of the very first rock songs to feature a synthesizer.  He is just…

Del Shannon had 8 top 40 hits in the US and 14 in the UK.  His cover of the Beatles "From Me To You" was the first Lennon/McCartney song to enter the charts.  He has long been cited as an influence on a number of big acts.  The song "Runaway" was one of the very first rock songs to feature a synthesizer.  He is just…

No kidding.  So many of his songs are so sad.