Table of Contents
Acknowledgments V
Foreword: Stranded in the Combat Zone Bruce Gentile VI
Introduction X
Chapter 1 And Never Saw his Father Anymore 1
Chapter 2 Children Lived in Levittown 7
Chapter 3 You Might Have Heard I Run with a Dangerous Crowd 12
Chapter 4 There's a New Band in Town 23
Chapter 5 We All Fall in Love, But we Disregard the Danger 34
Chapter 6 So Much to do and Only so Many Hours in a Day 41
Chapter 7 The Things I Did not Know at First I Learned by Doing Twice 50
Chapter 8 I Bring to You My Songs 57
Chapter 9 A Good Reputation Laying on the Line 67
Chapter 10 Sing us a Song, You're the Piano Man 73
Chapter 11 She's Nobody's Fool 86
Chapter 12 I Can Finally Find out What I've Been Looking For 94
Chapter 13 Everybody's All Excited by it 102
Chapter 14 Doesn't Matter What They Say in the Papers 126
Chapter 15 I Came Home to a Woman That I Could Not Recognize 136
Chapter 16 A Fool Who's not Afraid of Rejection 142
Chapter 17 Made His Move on Christie Lee 148
Chapter 18 When You're Counting on a Killing, Always Count me in 156
Chapter 19 Red Flags are Flying 165
Chapter 20 I Try to Keep Fighting 177
Chapter 21 So Far She Hasn't Run 186
Chapter 22 I Give My Time to Total Strangers 193
Chapter 25 Could I Have Missed the Overture 201
Chapter 24 Every Drunk Must Have His Drink 212
Chapter 25 I Saw the Lights go Out on Broadway 218
Chapter 26 Got a New Wife 226
Chapter 27 Go Ahead with Your Own Life 232
Chapter 28 Another Serenader and Another Long-Haired Band 239
Chapter 29 I'm Trying Just to Get to Second Base 249
Chapter 30 He Can't Understand why his Heart Always Breaks 257
Chapter 31 I Can't Tell You More Than I've Told You Already 274
Chapter 32 That is the Story 282
Afterword: I Write My Book and I Have My Say and I Draw Conclusions 285
Appendix A Album Charts 288
Billboard 200 Albums 288
Top Internet Album Sales 288
Top Classical Albums 288
Appendix B Singles & Tracks 289
Pop Singles 289
The Billboard Hot 100 289
Adult Contemporary 290
Club Play 291
Mainstream Rock Tracks 291
Top 40 Mainstream 291
Appendix C Grammy Awards & Nominations 292
Appendix D Other Awards & Honors 293
Appendix E Gold & Platinum Awards 294
Platinum Albums 294
Platinum Singles 294
Gold Singles 294
Gold Long-Form Videos 294
Platinum Long-Form Video 294
Bibliography 295
Notes 306
Index 326