Wayyyy before there was Bono and U2, there was Van “the man” Morrison and the world’s most dangerous band, THEM—the originals of punk and garage rock bands whose song “Gloria” got its second life from Francis Ford Coppola’s movie version of S.E. Hinton’s great novel “the Outsiders” that marked the movie debuts of Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Matt Dillon and Rob Lowe among other Hollywood stars-to-be.
And if this doesn’t get your jitterbugger legs all dance-ready for Saturday night, well . . . lie down and have someone check your pulse
(For my brother Charlie who’s crazy about Don Imus who’s a close personal friend of Van the man Morrison)
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