"Taraborrelli" Blogs & Blog Posts

 My blog got hacked. 🤐 This blog which I have written since 2006, about black music, inspired by J Randy Taraborrelli's biographies. Featured in the fabulous book by Joe Vogel on the creative life of Michael Jackson. I've lost five years' pos...

After a long hiatus I have got heavily back into Michael Jackson,  his work and life.  this came about through reading  La Toya Jackson's first autobiography,  which was fascinating, followed by her later work, Starting Over (sacc...

Los Angeles, Santa Monica (Pic: Wikipedia)I share some of these posts to Twitter. This has resulted, bizarrely, in me being followed by a fair number of Los Angeles-based, or LA-connected, people. Among them is my writing hero J Randy...

Being a forum member is strange for me. I've not been posting here as I am hanging out on the Guns n' Roses forum, on and off.  The only other forum I belong to is a self-help one and everyone there is ultra-respectful. On the GNR one conve...

אקסל רוז בהופעה בישראל (Photo credit: Wikipedia)BOOK: W Axl Rose by Mick Wall.I got the 2007 hardback version of this book.Turgid and misleading. This is a biography about Guns n' Roses not Axl Rose.Did I get insights into Axl...

I picked up Slash's autobiography, a second-hand copy, this week in the flower shop where my Michael Jackson love started. That big love was back in 2007, when I stumbled across Michael Jackson, The Magic and the Madness, by J Randy Taraborelli. At 2...

I picked up Slash's autobiography, a second-hand copy, this week in the flower shop where my Michael Jackson love started. That big love was back in 2007, when I stumbled across Michael Jackson, The Magic and the Madness, by J Randy Taraborelli. At 2...