“It was Vito, Carl Franzoni, Sue, Beatle Bob, Bryan Maclean and me…people would come to Ben Frank’s to hang out with us after we played shows.”

But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood.

When LOVE played the still hipper Whisky A Go-Go, further west along Sunset, Arthur Lee claims they ‘started the whole hippy thing’ in tandem with an in-crowd of freaks led by aging beatnik sculptor Vito Paulekas.

Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

George Harrison: The day after the Blue Angel audition.

I’ve had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we’re truly after.

But it’s a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life.” -Damien

10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed?

Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

It is the first cry after birth