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GOD BLESS THE LATE ROMAN KOZAK
MOST ALBUM REVIEWS IN BILLBOARD HAD TO BE AMERICAN ALBUMS.
MY LOVE AND FLAME ON NEW ROSE/MUSIDISC - A HUGE DISTRIBUTOR IN EUROPE - WAS AN IMPORT. (WE LEFT RCA RECORDS TO GO WITH MUSIDISC IN PARIS BECAUSE THEY WERE LARGER IN REGARDS TO THE MUSIC INDUSTRY THERE - AS A & R MAN I SIGNED WILLIE LOCO TO THE RCA / NEW ROSE IMPRINT)
IT WAS VERY RARE FOR AN IMPORT ALBUM TO BE CONSIDERED FOR A TOP ALBUM PICK
A GUITARIST OF MINE FROM THE 1980S PHONED ME TWO DAYS AGO, WE TALKED FOR 2 1/2 HOURS. HE AND HIS BROTHER COLLECTED 99 OF MY SONGS AND DIGITIZED THEM. AMAZING. HE SAID TO ME "THE LOVE AND FLAME ALBUM IS GREAT."
IT IS. ONE OF MY FAVORITES
ROMAN WAS ONLY 40 WHEN HE PASSED IN 1988...AROUND THE TIME I SAW HIM.
SO GLAD I GOT TO SEE HIM AGAIN.
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/19/obituaries/roman-kozak-writer-about-rock-dies-at-40.html
I SAW BILLBOARD EDITOR ROMAN KOZAK AT THE BAR WHERE THE BALL DROPS IN NEW YORK CITY ON NEW YEAR'S EVE...FORGET THE NAME OF IT. JOY SILVER, AN OLD FRIEND FROM BOSTON, WAS MANAGING THE BAR, GO FIGURE? AND LIV TYLER'S MOM WAS ON STAGE SINGING...BEBE BEULL OR IS IT BUELL...I REALLY DON'T CARE...BEBE WAS IN A FUR COAT ON A HOT SUMMER NIGHT ONSTAGE...WASN'T BEBE IN PLAYBOY LIKE I WAS? OH, NOT LIKE i WAS, I GOT TO KEEP MY CLOTHING ON! ALL KIDDING ASIDE, BEBE WAS FANTASTIC WITH A SONG 'X MARKS THE SPOT' THAT COULD HAVE BEEN A HIT.
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ANYWAY, ROMAN WAS AT THE BAR, I BOUGHT HIM A DRINK, HE SAID "HOW KIND OF YOU" I SAID - IT'S AN HONOR, YOU WERE SO SUPPORTIVE. ROMAN REVIEWED LOVE AND FLAME FOR BILLBOARD
A WEEK OR SO LATER BEBE CALLS ME AND SAYS "I WILL WORK WITH YOU GUYS IF YOU AND JIMMY DROP ALL THE WOMEN ON YOUR LABEL."
MY REPLY: BEBE, GO FUCK YOURSELF.
AND THAT WAS THAT...HAVEN'T TALKED TO HER SINCE.
SHE CALLED JIMMY YAPPING (HE WAS IN MEDFORD AT THE TIME BEHIND KAPPY'S IN THE APARTMENT) AND JIMMY JUST HELD THE PHONE AWAY FROM HIS EAR!
ONCE A GROUPIE...ALWAYS A GROUPIE...BUT LIV CAN ENABLE HER MOMMY NOW, WE DIDN'T HAVE THE TIME
LOVE AND FLAME INDEED!
AND IT WAS A BILLBOARD PICK TO CLICK. RECOMMENDED LP
I REMEMBER LISTENING TO IT AFTER RELEASE AND MARVELING AT WHAT WE HAD ACCOMPLISHED
DAN WAS ONE OF MY BEST CO-WRITERS AND GUITARISTS
SUCH A SHAME HE WAS AND STILL IS A PSYCHOPATH
DANNY DANNY DANNY I DON'T LOVE YOU ANYMORE
THERE'S YOUR FUCKING BOOTS NOW GET OUT THE FUCKING DOOR
DANNY DANNY DANNY I DON'T LOVE YOU....ANYMORE
WE LIVED TOGETHER THREE TIMES...THAT LOU REED SONG WAS RIGHT...
'YOU CAN'T RELIVE THE PAST'
LOU'S GUITARIST PLAYED WITH US THE EVENING SOME YEARS BACK THAT I THREW DANNY OUT FOR GOOD. SUCH A SHAME BUT I CANNOT FIX HIS ISSUES
LOU'S GUITARIST SAID 'HE'S FANTASTIC ON GUITAR...FIND A WAY TO MAKE IT WORK"
BEEN THERE, DONE THAT, AND THE CLUB DIDN'T WANT HIM BACK EITHER
PHENOMENAL MUSICIAN...PHENOMENAL CO-WRITER
GOD BLESS ROMAN!
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