Stephen Hawkins (1945-2021) and The South Side Movement

This page is about trumpeter Stephen Hawkins, who was in the Chicago-based 70s soul/funk band, The South Side Movement. As I explain in My Library public list compiled at Google Books which is linked below, at times he is referred to as Steve Hawkins, and, as you can see from …

“Alexa! Who is Cleo Brown?”

As I submitted earlier this year to the Nostalgia Digest Facebook Group, a (moderated!) online forum companion to the Chicago Saturday afternoon weekly radio show (1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central Time), Those Were the Days, hosted by Steve Darnall with Ken Alexander (and founded in 1970 by Chuck Schaden), …

Lin-Manuel Miranda Essay: A Plan for the Interview When It Happens

(The assignment from October 2018 was to write a quick PR bio of Lin-Manuel Miranda, as if you were preparing to interview him.)   Lin-Manuel Miranda, born in New York to a chiefly Puerto Rican family, and fluent in Spanish, is a richly talented music artist and enthusiastic performer whose …

Tina Turner: My Love Story and I, Tina: My Life Story

My Love Story I, Tina: My Life Story What’s Love Got To Do With It?| Amazon Prime Video Tina: The Musical – UK West End  Tina: The Tina Turner Musical – USA Broadway Fall 2019                           TINA: • …

Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family

Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family by Daniel Bergner — about bass baritone Ryan Speedo Green       Today, Ryan Speedo Green is a member of the Vienna State Opera and performs worldwide in German, French, English and Italian. But as a kid, he …

Music and Theatres

My HEY DJ! Twitter List was my first Twitter list, which I originally created to get a handle on all of the deejays I was hearing in dance music, when I got interested in it in the late 2000s, early 2010s. I’d first connected with the music in the Second …