January 31st, 1968, San Francisco. Janice Joplain sat down and wrote a letter to her parents in Port Arthur. She wrote about a lot of things, the band, the city,...
In the summer of 1967, Albert Gman came to see Janice Joplain perform. He had already made Bob Dylan. He had managed Peter, Paul, and Mary. He had taken unknown...
In the summer of 1966, somewhere in Haight-Ashbury, a man handed Janis Joplin a bottle of Southern Comfort. His name was Ron McKernan. His friends called him Pigpen. He was...
In 1969, Tom Jones was one of the biggest stars in the world, not just in music, in the world. The Welsh coal miner’s son who had gone to number...
June 29th, 1970. Toronto. A train pulled out of Union Station heading west. It was a chartered Canadian National Railways train. 14 cars, two engines, a diner, five sleepers, two...
September 1968. Beverly Hills, the Estes Zipper Motor Company on Wilshire Boulevard. Cheap Thrills had just gone to number one. Janis Joplin had money for the first time in her...
Somewhere on board HMS Hermes on the night of May the 15th, 1982, a senior United States Marine officer stood in a steel doorway and watched 45 very tired men...
The most lopsided ground engagement in modern special air service history was fought by nine men around one Second World War artillery piece. Mirbat, Southern Omen, 19th July 1972. The...
1968 Fuokto Toy Province, South Vietnam. A Vietkong tracker team followed the Australian SASR deep into the jungle. Certain they had found them, certain they had them cornered, and then...
The Boy Who Saved the Empire: How a Disgraced Father and His Son Taught a Ruthless CEO the Meaning of Humanity The CEO didn’t see a grieving father doing his...