Jeff Beck had said the words in print. Prince uses vocals as a crutch. Tonight in London, Prince was about to prove him wrong without singing a single note. What nobody in that audience knew was this. Prince had invited Jeff Beck personally. This wasn’t a concert. This was a master class….
The old mechanic wiped the grease from his hands and said, “You Hollywood types always think money fixes everything.” Then he opened Prince’s glove box to get the registration, and what fell out made him drop his wrench and stare at Prince like he’d seen a ghost. Route 66, Arizona desert, 87…
November 7th, 2009, 7:34 p.m. Paisley Park, Chanhassen, Minnesota. Prince’s legendary estate and recording compound. That evening, Prince was hosting an intimate dinner for 20 carefully selected guests, musicians, producers, and close friends. Black Thai, classical music, fivecourse meal prepared by a Michelin starred chef. Everything perfect, everything controlled, everything about to…
Hello, did you hear that? He said hello. The funniest comedy on The Tonight Show came from unpredictable animals that refused to follow any script. These are the most funny animals on The Tonight Show. The dog who sang to Carson. Ah, now that is a very…
Ed Sullivan revealed the seven music legends who were actually evil. The Ed Sullivan Show brought America’s living rooms the greatest musical talents of a generation. Every Sunday night, families gathered around their television sets to watch the parade of stars Sullivan had personally selected to entertain…
Before his death, Frank Sinatra named the five actresses with the worst hygiene. Frank Sinatra took secrets to his grave, but this wasn’t one of them. The chairman of the board, perfectionist, control freak, hyper sensitive to every sight, sound, and smell, kept a mental blacklist of Hollywood’s most glamorous women who failed his impossible…
Paul Newman once revealed the eight beautiful women of all time. Those blue eyes saw everything. For decades, Paul Newman stood as Hollywood’s gold standard of masculine beauty. But it was his assessment of beauty and others that revealed the depth behind those legendary eyes. Newman understood women in a way most…
Three words. That’s all it took for Johnny Carson to end a man’s career and change television history. Not on my show. October 14th, 1983. Comedian Frank Dalton was killing it on the Tonight Show. The audience loved him. The jokes were landing. Then Frank spotted a black man in the third…
Johnny Carson was interviewing Tom Celich when a young woman in the third row stood up and did something that stopped the entire Tonight Show. What happened next broke every rule of live television and left 12 million viewers in tears. It was February 12th, 1981 at NBC’s Burbank Studios. Johnny Carson was in…
And then it became and it went on Jukebox Jury and it was voted a miss. Engelbert Humperdinck once had the kind of fame most artists would sacrifice everything for. But the life he is living now feels nothing like the dream people remember. Behind the velvet voice, the sold-out crowds, and the romantic…
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