>>> I HOPE ALL MY READERS WATCHED CNN'S FILM : LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING -- or sees it soon, as CNN is likely to re-run it.
Just confirming that title, I ran right into Pubishers Weekly's announcement of the hard-cover release of my memoir: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20100125/41725-spring-2010-hardcovers-biography-amp-memoir.html
Like Little Richard, I TOO, have NEVER GOTTEN MY DUE -- due to my parents, siblings, and later the CIA and others at the TOP of the U.S., Georgia, and North Carolina Governments trying so hard to kill me -- or at least permanently shut me up.
They COULDN'T, and even though I've proved them IMPOTENT (in this matter), they continue to harass -- mostly messing with my TV reception and the SPECTRUM Internet it comes over, and my Windows 10 computer, but especially Google/Blogger -- but FACEBOOK is now my FRIEND!!!
I went to see Little Richard because Gary Tucker, one of those who conspired with the Episcopal Church/Sewanee via Lawyer Michael Remer; CIA Agent John Eastman (who had ordered the murder of John Lennon, and was Paul McCartney's first brother-in-law); and Maria St. Just (nee Britneva), plotted and then carried out Tennessee's murder. Gary had often bragged that HE had orchestrated Little Richard's SECOND comeback.
When I asked him about it, Richard said -- and I remember it verbatim -- "Baby, I have met and worked with many people, but I do not remember a white boy named Gary Tucker."
Funny that I met someone so KEY to the development of Rock and Roll -- and although I was familiar with much of his music and much of his influence, that was all of our conversation -- and then he signed my book in silence.
The ONLY other BIG ONES I've met in POP music were the Village People who often all together ate meals while vacationing a week in Key West at the restaurant, bar, and deli/bakery I managed, TUX, Gail Brockway's restaurant in the space that today contains Jimmy Buffet's FLAGSHIP Margaritaville!!!
Glenn Hughes (the Leatherman), STOLE my best bartender, Gary, and they lived together for years until one of them died of cancer. Randy Jones, the leader, turned up later in my life when I discovered he is from Raleigh, but really the Lower Cape Fear, and hosted a FUNDRAISER every year at the Lazy Pirate on Carolina Beach.
Not only THAT, but he was CLOSE FRIENDS with my still friend then, Ryan Lee Burris, 3rd Vice Chair of New Hanover County Democrats. But when I discovered they were doing BIG DRUG TRAFFICKING with Ryan's TOP BUDDIES who included Roy Cooper, NC Repub State Senator Thom Goolsby, Dem State Representative Susie Hamilton, who since was replaced by Gov. Cooper's appointment and now elections, Deb Butler (who partnered with Repub Jonathan Deputy) -- WELL that ended THAT friendship and Randy Jones BLOCKED ME EVERYWHERE, and WHO ever hears about him, today???
In a much nicer story, after meeting Duke Ellington who asked me directions to where he was to perform north of Boston in 1972, I ALSO met Ella Fitzgerald and her date, Joe Williams, at the State Department Dinner that kicked off the 1981 Kennedy Center Honors:
https://laterdaysoftennesseewilliams.blogspot.com/2013/10/chapter-7-dinner-at-seven-thirty.html
BUT, getting back to Little Richard, I saw several other people I knew who were interviewed -- chief among them John Waters:
John Waters knew Jean Babette Stein better than I did:
It was Jean Stein and George Plimpton who threw the party for Tennessee Williams, when Jackie Kennedy Onassis told Tennessee that the CIA, FBI, Republican Party, and Episcopal Church planned to MURDER HIM and steal his estate from Harvard -- which they eventually did.
https://laterdaysoftennesseewilliams.blogspot.com/2013/10/chapter-23-uptown-soiree.html
>>> OF INTEREST TO "TRUE HISTORY TOURS" -- although "truth-be-told", I'm champing at the BIT to do the JEWISH TOURS of Wilmington!!!
Everyone knows that I was made an "Honorary Jew" by Jonathan Reiner who has his own EMMYS now -- and like me, is a Trained Practitioner of Science of Mind (Religious Science). And Jonathan and his first cousin Rob Reiner and their families are NON-OBSERVANT JEWS, anyway -- LOL!!!
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When I first visted Key West and met Gail Brockway, I was a guest of her divorced husband the Artist Bill Brockway, in 1974 or '75, Jimmy Buffett had just been BUSTED as a HUGE DISTRIBUTOR of powder Cocaine. He RATTED on all the Major Dealers he supplied, and got off SCOT-FREE!!!
EVERYONE -- at least those who liked any kind of drug -- absolutely HATED HIM -- and he went on to make a FORTUNE knowing he had STEPPED ON all those who DID WHAT HE DID -- but NOT AS HEAVILY as he did.
NO WONDER JOE BIDEN AND OTHERS WHO PROFIT OFF ADDICTIVE DRUG TRAFFICKING ARE CALLING HIM A "NATIONAL TREASURE"!!!
That said, despite his ASS-HOLE ETHICS, he and all of his "Parrot-Heads" (two of whom were on our Cemetery Tour, yesterday), know how to have FUN!!!
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