The Men We Became: My Friendship with John F. Kennedy, Jr.

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The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years

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Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story

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Johnny Carson

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Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years

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Jackie's Girl: My Life with the Kennedy Family

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The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

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Kennedy's Last Days: The Assassination That Defined a Generation

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A Little Thing Called Life: On Loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and Songs in Between

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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit

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Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir

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America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy

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Lady Bird and Lyndon: The Hidden Story of a Marriage That Made a President

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Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot

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Forever Young: My Friendship with John F. Kennedy, Jr.

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Love, Lucy

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What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love

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Hope: Entertainer of the Century

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A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York

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Fairy Tale Interrupted: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss

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The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence

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The Kennedy Wives: Triumph and Tragedy in America's Most Public Family

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Five Days in November

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Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant

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Madonna

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Robert Kennedy: JFK: The Death of Marilyn Monroe: Who Didn't Kill Them

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The Tripp-Lewinsky Tapes

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The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley

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RFK Jr.: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Dark Side of the Dream

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Nevertheless

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Lenny Kravitz

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Exploring Anderson Island with Bill Miller: Bill Miller, Pacific North Westerner, and Justin’s father-in-law sits down with the guys on this episode to talk about his life and adventures on Anderson Island.

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#191 - Lyn, Jan & Him

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Episode 5: The Ballad of Bob and J.R.: A quick prologue: we stop by the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, where they opened up a very cool exhibit in March of 2015. Then we move on to Newport, Rhode Island, where Pete Seeger is about to introduce Johnny Cash, an established country star playing for the first time to a folk festival audience. After a rough beginning, the show goes very well. Afterwards, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan—mutual fans—meet for the first time and begin a lifelong friendship. We then spend some time getting to know the Man in Black; we learn about the family tragedy that moved J.R. Cash to write and make music. We find out the real origins of “Folsom Prison Blues.” We leave Johnny Cash in Memphis for the meantime, and head north to Hibbing, Minnesota and check in on young Robert Allen Zimmerman. As a teen, Bobby is a leather-jacketed Rock N Roll rebel; but he takes on a new name and identity when he discovers folk music as a freshman at the University of Minn

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JFK Jr. The Prince of Camelot | 8

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E97: Joel Selvin on Early '60s L.A. + Jack Nitzsche + Malcolm Cecil R.I.P.: In this episode of the RBP podcast, we welcome San Francisco Chronicle legend Joel Selvin into the virtual cupboard to talk about Hollywood Eden, his terrific new book about L.A.'s pop scene in the early '60s. After explaining how he first came to write for "the Chron" at the end of that decade, Joel recalls his early fascination with L.A. as the burgeoning "surf city" celebrated by Jan & Dean and the Beach Boys. Barney & Mark press him for stories about the scurrilous but brilliant "bottom feeder" Kim Fowley, after which we hear three audio clips from John Tobler's 1973 interview with (Jan &) Dean Torrence. (Among those namechecked along the way: Jan Berry, inevitably, and Lou Adler, Bruce Johnston, Terry Melcher & Jill Gibson...) Staying in a Southern California groove, Joel also reminisces about the troubled Jack Nitzsche, whom he interviewed for Melody Maker in 1978. We discuss Nitzsche's achievements as a

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Episode 3: The Day the Music Died: We describe Rock N Roll as an “enfant terrible,” then an unruly toddler, then a hyperactive kid. When Buddy Holly breaks out in late 1957, we see Rock N Roll has stepped out into the world as a confident young adult. Our story begins on a snowy two-lane highway in rural Iowa, on February 2nd, 1959: the fateful last day of the Winter Dance Party tour. The shows are going well, but the tour is a real grind. Cold, tired, and fed up, Buddy Holly decides to charter a small plane after the show that night in Clear Lake, Iowa. We meet the Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens, and Dion DiMucci. We discuss how Ritchie Valens was the first Latino crossover artist, and his 1957 release “La Bamba” is the first Spanish-language pop hit. We then devote a good chunk of the show to Buddy Holly’s life and musical career. We emphasize his giant influence on future Rock N Roll legends, and talk about The Crickets’ groundbreaking tour of the United Kingdom in early 1958. We meet “

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E122: David Dalton on The Beach Boys + The Beatles + Charles Manson: In this episode we welcome the legendary — and highly amusing — David Dalton to join us all the way from his rural retreat in upstate New York. We start by comparing our shocked reactions to Vladimir Putin's horrific invasion of Ukraine before asking David how he moved to America from England in 1961. He tells us about his mid-'60s adventures as a photographer of British Invasion acts like the Animals — with assistance from a pre-Beatle Linda McCartney — and then about his mid-stream switch to profiles of James Brown and Janis Joplin for Jann Wenner's nascent Rolling Stone. We revisit the award-winning 1970 Stone piece David co-wrote about Charles Manson and the Family, hearing along the way about Manson's connections with the Beach Boys. This leads almost seamlessly into clips from the late Andy Gill's 1988 audio interview with Dr. Eugene Landy, the shrink who "saved" Brian Wilson only to abuse his professional trust

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E106: Jennifer Otter Bickerdike on Nico + Jackson Browne + Britney Spears: In this week's podcast, Mark and Jasper are joined by the excellent Dr. Jennifer Otter Bickerdike to talk about her new Nico book, You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone: The Biography of Nico. Jennifer shares the story of where the idea for the book came from and contemplates comparisons of Nico with Marianne Faithfull. The three of them also consider her remarkable music from Chelsea Girl to Camera Obscura and her time in the Velvet Underground that led to long-lasting collaboration with John Cale. They then listen to two excerpts from the week's audio interview with Jackson Browne, in which he reminisces about cheap rents in Los Angeles and learning the piano, plus why he often doesn't write political songs. Following the sad news of rapper Biz Markie's death, the trio pay tribute to his infectious humour and joyful singing. Talk then turns to what's new in the library, with Mark highlighting pieces about Bob Dy

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E119: Michael Simmons on country punk + '60s counterculture + Van Dyke Parks: In this episode, Barney, Mark & Jasper invite counterculture chronicler and "father of country punk" Michael Simmons to join them in RBP's virtual cupboard… all the way from his Culver City lair in small-hours Southern California. Michael talks very entertainingly about his dad Matty's '60s "hippie mag" Cheetah and about National Lampoon, the satirical '70s institution that succeeded it. Yarns about John Belushi and chums lead into Simmons Jr.'s unlikely but lifelong love of country music; his New York band Slewfoot; depping for George Jones at the Bottom Line; and his late '70s stint as one of Kinky Friedman's self-styled "Texas Jewboys". We also hear about our guest's parallel writing career and his move to Los Angeles, from whence he has long contributed to such outlets as the L.A. Weekly and (from the mid-noughties on) MOJO. He reminisces about his teenage Greenwich Village obsession with Bob Dylan, and t

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E139: Billy James on Bob Dylan + Columbia Records + Laurel Canyon: In this episode we welcome the legendary Billy James, all the way from the Bay Area, and tap him for his memories of working with Bob Dylan, the Doors and more. We start with Dylan and the interview the young Minnesotan gave to Billy in October 1961 in the latter's capacity as a Columbia Records publicist. Billy reminisces about his early interactions with the kid born Zimmerman; we hear a snatch of that 1961 audio, plus two clips from Eric Von Schmidt talking to Larry Jaffee about his friendship with Bob in that same period. In passing, we mention two great Dylan pieces by the week's featured scribe Greil Marcus, author of a new Bob "biography in seven songs" entitled Folk Music. From the early Bob years we switch coasts to California, where Billy worked in Columbia's Hollywood office and fell in with the Byrds between arranging press conferences for Patti Page, Percy Faith and his beloved Tony Bennett (pictured in the

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1. The Kennedy Women: When Jackie Met Jack

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Doris Kearns Goodwin: Presidential Ambitions: When Doris Kearns Goodwin was six year old, she used to carefully document the Brooklyn Dodgers' games. And that, she says, eventually led her to the career she now has, as one of America's favorite historians and political commentators. Goodwin's books are so engaging, because they focus on the very human side of her subjects: Lincoln, Kennedy, Johnson, Taft and Roosevelt (Franklin, Eleanor AND Teddy). In this episode, she talks about her unusual approach. She also tells amazing stories about the extraordinary relationship she had with LBJ, which began when she was a White House fellow in her early 20's and led to her first book. And, she describes a night unlike any other, sleeping in the bedroom where Winston Churchill slept as a guest in FDR's White House.

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Brett Dennen, ep. 206

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Andy Aledort: Growing up in New York in the late 60’s & early 70’s, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, Arthur Brown, Steve Morse, Jeff Beck, Jackson Browne, Johnny WInter… getting the gig with Dickey Betts and stories from 12 years on the road with him -...

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John Barnes: Broadcaster Huey Morgan on his latest musical adventure and mudlark Lisa Woollett.

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Ep. 101 - KINKY FRIEDMAN ("Sold American"): Kinky Friedman reveals who he believes deserves credit for starting country music's outlaw movement; what Waylon Jennings said when he saw Kinky walking down the street with his laundry; how he ended up receiving the Male Chauvinist Pig of the Year Award from the National Organization for Women; the way Nelson Mandela embraced one of his songs; the advice Willie Nelson gave him that changed his life; the reason he writes about Jesus so much; and why he says you've got to be miserable to write great songs.

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Introducing About A Girl Season 3

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203. Tony Sandler

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Bonnie and Clyde’s Final Ride

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Bonus Episode: Michael Oberman Recalls Hosting David Bowie on His First Night in America in 1971

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DC #412: ABC The Game Operation: On today's ABC episode of Daytime Confidential Luke, Belinda and Bernard discuss the latest All My Children, General Hospital and One Life to Live storylines and news, including:Do soaps need pop ups to help viewers know what is going on?Stuart...

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New Year: Re-Imagined Radio produces live and recorded old classics and new!

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39. When John F. Kennedy Jr. Met Carolyn Bessette

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GGACP Classic: Neil Sedaka

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15: Interview with Dunne Biographer Robert Hofler, Part One

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#22- Rock 'N' Roll Pioneer Buddy Holly: This week, Scott, Karl, and Trent talk about the life and music of rock 'n' roll legend Buddy Holly.  Growing up in Lubbock, Texas, Buddy began his musical career singing country and western songs. Scott points out, "Buddy's love songs aren't the...

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Home Alone 3

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3. The Kennedy Women: When Carolyn Met JFK Jr.

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Richard Thompson, ep. 166