Alan Freed

“Slim Harpo . . . Bob ‘Bear’ Hite . . . Stevie Ray Vaughan . . .” “Twenty-three,” Sissy told her, and on stage Alan Freed went on screaming names at the almost empty town common as the stars came out, first a hundred stars, then a thousand, then too many to count, stars that had come out of the blue and now glittered everywhere in the black; he tolled the names of the drug o.d.’s, the alcohol o.d.’s, the …

Alan Freed is physically on stage announcing the dead musicians; Tower VII references a concert advertisement.

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