NAMEDROPS KEEP FALLING
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedYes, for you readers in San Francisco, you’ll recognise that play on words from the late Herb Cain’s daily column in the SF Chronicle newspaper. It just seemed appropriate for this story. Six months ago, I wrote about meeting the (at the time) recently deceased country music legend Charley Pride when he and I were […]
50 YEARS AGO, A NEW ACT EMERGES
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedAs May 1971 was drawing to a close, some things were becoming certain, though other things like, “how am I going to make a living” weren’t so certain. I knew that my future was in San Francisco, punctuated by one ride on a cable car earlier that month, after which I was totally sold. I […]
THE DAY I DISCOVERED THE 60s WERE OVER
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIt was April, 1971, 50 years ago to the month, and only 16 months since the calendar years of the 1960s had officially ended. We still wanted to hang on to the values that we carried over from the summer of love, and I had had several semi-euphoric moments in those ensuing years where I […]
SINCE EVERYONE ELSE IS CELEBRATING THE CORONA-VERSARY….
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedExactly a year ago today, Maggie and I were in the southern coastal town of Rye, knowing that this could be our last time away for the unforeseeable future. That “future” has made it to a full year, and while there’s light at the end of the tunnel, it’s still a relatively dim one. In […]
40 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK – A SHORT LIVED TV CAREER
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI’ve talked many times about the events of 1979 and 1980 that eventually led to my move to Los Angeles at the beginning of 1981. Various factions had been hinting over that time that if we were in LA, we’d have a better chance of getting the national acclaim we were hoping for. We made […]
WORKING (UNKNOWINGLY) FOR THE MOB
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedOK, Trump is no longer President and I’ve gotten my first Covid jab, so a lot of my anxieties of the past few months are alleviated. While I’m still in Lockdown, I plan to use some of this time to reflect on things that I’m amazed I can still remember from 20, 30, 40, and […]
Another Remembrance, Met Him In Australia
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIt’s been a while since any celeb I met passed away, and how apropos of 2020 that the Country superstar Charley Pride died yesterday of complications related to Covid-19. The story is that he appeared at an awards ceremony in November and may have caught it there, but the Country Music Academy has sworn that […]
The Day The 60’s Was REALLY Over
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI have chronicled the whole “where I was when it happened” scenario in a blog I wrote on the 30th anniversary of John Lennon’s tragic death. It’s easily accessible by going to rickright.com and once you’re on the home page, just scroll down a bit and you’ll see the blogs categorised by what month they […]
A Nice Birthday Present
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedFour years ago on my birthday, I was woken up around 8:00 AM by my doorbell, then just as quickly, a call on my mobile. Both were from Maggie, who decided to bring me my birthday presents. We had just come back from a wonderful holiday in New York, where I hadn’t been for six […]
20 Years Ago — The Future Decided For Me
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedWhile my first trip to UK in August 2000 was mostly a showcase to see how audiences took to me, and how I related to them, the real test would come for two weeks at the end of October. It would not only mean spending my 50th birthday in Cork, Ireland, which I’d never heard […]
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