Diana Told the Queen He’s a Nightmare — Elizabeth’s Response Was Not What She Expected She didn’t say it to a journalist. She didn’t say it to a friend. She...
Princess Diana’s Secret Cry for Help — Why the Queen Never Forgave Her for It She never told anyone publicly, not the press, not her friends, not the public who...
Audrey Hepburn Was Called “Not Sexy Enough” — She Went to Givenchy and SILENCED the Entire Studio It was 1953 and Paramount Studios smelled like cigarette smoke and hairspray and...
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...