An artist I only really investigated for the first time yesterday. I'd long associated him with Bruce Springsteen who'd always revered and supported him but yesterday discovered that he was held in similar high esteem by The New York Dolls which gave me an entirely different impression of him. His golden years were 1960 and '61 when he amassed a total of five Billboard Top 10 Hits and he soundtracked tens of thousands of American High School lives. These two come from '62 and charted lower and typically these were the two that The Dolls and Johnny Thunders later covered. Much else in his wonderful back catalogue is also worthy of investigation. The man himself is still touring over fifty years later!
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