rod mckuen
this page has been created cos i was very disappointed to find nothing about hot rod on the web, except for the outlist.
this is ,
in other words, it doesn´t really give any information as of now.
[i will be including biog info, an incomplete discography, lyrics & audio (maybe) once i find the time.]
but i hope this page serves to get me in touch with people interested in rod mckuen.
so, if there´s any rodheads around, please
mail whatever contributions you have to me, subject: rod or so. and rod,
if you should get to know of this, please mail with yr comments and criticism, too!
biog
Rod was born in a Salvation Army
hospital in Oakland, California, thirty-three years ago (1934? -
according to this source
, rod mckuen was born on april 29, 1933 - guess this page should be perfect
by april 29 ...ed.) - with nothing.
Today, he claims, he has enough money to buy candy bars when
he wants them and take plane rides when he likes. He made it by
himself. There weren’t many who even wanted to help—or, if they
did, they didn’t seem to know how to go about it.
When he came to Hollywood after an Army stint, an agent thought
he looked a little like the late James Dean and wanted to rename
him Dean James. After Hollywood came New York and a manager
that pushed him into rock-and-roll and had him screaming over a
rock band for more than a year. That gave him the husky voice
that’s now his trademark. He doesn’t have a manager or an agent
now, which deprives him of someone to run interference but makes
him more or less his own master. Now he does pretty much what he
likes, which means spending most of his eighteen-hour day working.
When Rod gets fed up with work or harassed by the demands of
his growing success, he usually takes off for Europe. More than just
a change, it offers him a chance to work with some of the top com
posers on the continent. These collaborations have produced one of
1966’s biggest songs If You Go Away, Seasons in the Sun, and more
than a dozen other songs Rod has written with Jacques Brel. He
was, in fact, the first writer to successfully translate Brel’s songs in
this country, and Rod is the only writer Brel has elected to translate
into French.
[liner notes for "through european windows" ed habib, 1967]
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