Purple Rain
With Prince gone, so was the purple rain–the girls worried they would turn into dandelions . . .
Don’t Worry, Be Happy
Being Blue, everyone expected Herbie to do B. B. King, John Lee Hooker, or maybe Marcia Ball–the blues–at Karaoke night, but no, he did “Don’t Worry, Be Happy . . .”
The Lemon Sisters
Nostalgia prompted a remake of the old Ed Sullivan Show on cable; the first act they signed was the famous Lemon Sisters . . .
Elvis Wannabe
With his voice still changing, teenaged Chuckie (or Chucklehead, as his friends called him) couldn’t help but miss a few notes with his Elvis impersonation at the school talent show . . .
Blues Crowd
LaToya Jackson had made a surprise appearance at the festival and did all right; polite applause saved everyone from embarrassment, but the reality was that this was a hard core blues crowd.
Mixed Crowd
The rally to support Willy Nelson for Surgeon General for the incoming administration drew quite a mixed crowd . . .