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New book chronicles the history of  THE TURTLES and  FLO & EDDIE, with stops at Zappa, Springsteen, Alice Cooper, Ray Davies, and T. Rex.  Zoom interview with authors Mark Arnold and Charles Rosenay!!!  Harold Lepidus (Boston Harold Video Podcast) You know their biggest hits - “Happy Together” and “Elenore.” If you’re like me (they were a bit before my time), you may have heard some of their most popular songs yet not known they were by them - “She’d Rather Be With Me,” “You Baby,” “She’s My Girl,” and an electric folk-rock version of Bob Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me, Babe.” (They’re playing in your head right now, aren’t they?) However, that is only the beginning of the story of the Turtles, one of the most popular acts on American AM Top 40 radio in the 1960s. In 466 pages, co-authors Mark Arnold and Charles Rosenay!!! have chronicled the fascinating and outrageous history of that band, and their convoluted and tumultuous post-Turtles career, in their just published book, “NOT JUST HAPPY

JEFF SLATE ON INTERVIEWING DYLAN, INTERACTING WITH TOWNSHEND, AND HIS NEW ALBUM (FEATURING HIS DAVE STEWART-PRODUCED SINGLE) by Harold Lepidus (Boston Harold Video Podcast, February 28, 2024) Musician/journalist Jeff Slate should be no stranger to anyone reading this. In addition to interviewing just about every major rock musician over the years, from Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page to Chrissie Hynde and Janelle Monae to Noel Gallagher and Paul Weller, he has also written the liner notes for recent box sets by Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and the Rolling Stones. He is the co-author of The Authorized Biography of Roy Orbison, and interviewed Roger McGuinn and Margo Price in Tulsa, OK, at recent Bob Dylan Center-related events. He is also a frequent guest on SiriusXM.  (Courtesy Jeff Slate/Credit Bob Gruen) Slate is a musician in his own right. From his time with his bands The Badge and Mindless Thinkers to his recent solo career, as well as his tribute shows cel

Hello and welcome to the Boston Harold Video Podcast.  My special guest today is Danny Fingeroth, who, in addition to being a fellow admirer of Bob Dylan, is a published author. His most recent book. JACK RUBY - THE MANY FACES OF OSWALD’S ASSASSIN , was published by The Chicago Review Press this past November, 21. INTERVIEW WITH DANNY FINGEROTH, DECEMBER 12, 2023 Danny Fingeroth is a biographer and cultural historian/commentator, specializing in the intersection of Jewish and American cultures. He’s the author of Superman on the Couch and Disguised as Clark Kent . His acclaimed 2019 biography of Stan Lee, A Marvelous Life , is a laser-sharp look at this controversial figure—the innovative force behind the beginnings of Marvel Comics. Fingeroth has spoken at venues including the Smithsonian Institution and Columbia University, as well as on NBC’s Today Show and NPR’s All Things Considered . He has written commentaries for publications including the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street

Hello and welcome to the Boston Harold Video Podcast. My guests today are two of the most respected scholars of the music and art of Bob Dylan, Michael Gray and Ray Padgett.  This cross-generational joint interview covers not only their work as authors, but we discuss such subjects as typewriters, critical theories, the Bob Dylan Center, Shadow Kingdom, Budokan, the Rough and Rowdy Way s tour … and dogs. (Boston Harold Video Podcast interview with Michael Gray and Pay Padgett) Michael Gray is a pioneer in the studies of Bob Dylan. In the early 1970s, he published Song and Dance Man , the first serious collection in book form of an exploration of what makes Dylan an important artist, one worthy of academic consideration. The book has been updated twice since then, in the early 1980s and late 1990s. That most recent version, which clocked in at over 900 pages and has been out of print for quite some time, was recently reissued by FM Press in three more manageable volumes - Vol. 1- La