Table of Contents

MARK ABRAMSON
Elektra producer from the early Sixties on, with a gentle touch and an appetite for encounter. In the late Nineties, running a crisis center near Woodstock.

BILL ALEXANDER
A Marin County therapist.

DAVID ANDERLE
The incarnation of Elektra in Sixties LA. Beloved of artists. Later senior VP for A&R at A&M Records.

ALAN ARKIN
A Tarrier, later a movie star.

ARS NOVA
Classically trained musicians going medieval on the ars of rock.

MOSES ASCH
An obsessive, invaluable chronicler of world folk music on his Folkways label.

K.O. ASHER
The "Scroogiest" and most honest independent record distributor in the Midwest.

TED ASHLEY
Former chairman of Warner Bros. Inc.

OONA AUSTIN
A lady of the canyon.

EVE BABITZ
A Sixties LA watcher and writer. Sister of Mirandi.

MIRANDI BABITZ
Sister of Eve. Measured the inside leg of Jim Morrison for his custom-made leather pants.

PETER BARTÓK
Early genius audio engineer. Son of the composer.

PAUL BEAVER
A Moog man who departed this earth on a UFO ... Strange days.

THEODORE BIKEL
Actor, folk singer, conscience. Recorded sixteen LPs for Elektra.

MIKE BLOOMFIELD
Guitarist. For sheer skill and passion, a white Hendrix. Died of drug overdose in 1981.

BRUCE BOTNICK
Boy wonder recording engineer for Love, Tim Buckley, the Doors, and co-producer of "LA Woman." In the Nineties, a producer of movie soundtracks and Disney cast albums.

BONNIE BRAMLETT
As in Delaney & Bonnie. A great white blues singer.

DELANEY BRAMLETT
Husband of Bonnie. Put his name ahead of hers and blacked her eye.

OSCAR BRAND
Folk interpreter with an encyclopedic repertoire. Recorded nonstop for Elektra in the Sixties.

MARLON BRANDO
A fan of bizarre sound effects.

DAVID BRAUN
Music business attorney and wit.

BREAD
A sweet-harmony soft-rock group.

BERTOLT BRECHT
A lyricist for the Doors.

JACKSON BROWNE
Signed to Elektra's publishing unit as a teenage songwriter.

LENNY BRUCE
Once called a "sick" comedian; died of dope and genius.

LORD BUCKLEY
Before Lenny Bruce there was Lord Buckley.

TIM BUCKLEY
A doomed angel with a four-octave voice and a bad habit. OD'd at twenty-seven.

ERIC BURDON
An Animal, with war stories of Jim Morrison's night tripping.

PAUL BUTTERFIELD
White electric blues man. Knew the South Side of Chicago, made a noise at Newport. Died in 1987 after years of poor health.

EDWARD TATNALL CANBY
An early enlightened stereophile and music critic.

HARRY CHAPIN
The last artist Jac personally produced and sent on his way—'Taxi'! Killed in an auto accident 1980.

CIGAR PAIN
Burned his throat so his voice would sound like Jim Morrison's.

ERIC CLAPTON
A fan of Delaney & Bonnie.

JOE COCKER
Another fan of Delaney & Bonnie; a Mad Dog and Englishman.

ALAN COHEN
Executive VP for Warner Communications, Steve Ross's right hand until he allegedly tried to bite it.

HERB COHEN
Castro "freedom fighter," sky diver, LA coffee house pioneer, partner of Theo Bikel, manager of Judy Henske and Tim Buckley.

LEONARD COHEN
A poet in his youth.

JUDY COLLINS
Began as a folk maid of constant sorrow, became an artist of taste and constantly refreshing inventiveness.

STAN CORNYN
Head of creative services for Warner Bros. Records.

PAMELA COURSON
Emotional partner in crime of Jim Morrison, till death did them part.

CROSBY, STILLS AND NASH
Sat on Paul Rothchild's couch in Laurel Canyon and sang.

MARIA D'AMATO
Singer with the Even Dozen Jug Band; later Maria Muldaur.

ALLEN DAVIAU
Camera store clerk in his youth; later a cinematographer with five Academy Award nominations.

CLIVE DAVIS
Highly talented record company president who threw a demo tape of Carly Simon across the room. In the Nineties, well thought-of chairman of Arista Records.

DOROTHY DEAN
The Spade of Queens. Famous doorperson at Max's Kansas City.

JOHN DENSMORE
The Doors' drummer. Suffered for his sanity.

MAYA DEREN
Haitian voodoo adept, avant-garde film maker.

DEADLY DIANE
Waitress at the Unicorn on the Sunset Strip. A bare-breasted portrait is in the Herb Cohen collection.

JIM DICKSON
Producer, scene-maker in Sixties LA.

DIGBY DIEHL
Journalist, Doors observer, later wrote for Playboy.

ROGER DI FIORE
Cook, master joint roller, W.C. Fields admirer.

THE DILLARDS
The real bluegrass thing.

HENRY DILTZ
Photographer to the stars of rock.

CONNIE DI NARDO
One of the Three Graces of Paxton Lodge.

NED DOHENY
Teenage guitar wizard.

THE DOORS
The Elektra band—high musical intelligence and five gold albums in a row, on the way to platinum.

BOB DYLAN
The road not taken: signed to Columbia while Jac was out of town.

JACLYN EASTON
Daughter of Jac and Nina.

CASS ELLIOTT
A Laurel Canyon Mama.

ALLAN EMIG
Helped design Elektra's LA studio.

AHMET ERTEGUN
Founder, with brother Nesuhi, of Atlantic Records. One of the greats.

NESUHI ERTEGUN
With brother Ahmet, founder of Atlantic Records. An internationalist in musical and cultural reach.

THE EVEN DOZEN JUG BAND
Count 'em. What you hear is what you get.

PAT FARALLA
Of Elektra West. Later the master baker of Santa Fe.

CYRUS FARYAR
The Persian minstrel of Barham Boulevard. Nearly a Sufi.

DANNY FIELDS
Elektra publicist, designated company freak. The hippest guy in New York. Close personal friend of Max's Kansas City.

MITCHELL FINK
On the scene then... and now.

HARRISON FORD
A carpenter in his youth.

MICHAEL FORD
A poet in his youth.

BARRY FRIEDMAN
AKA Frazier Mohawk. Laurel Canyon prankster, circus clown, fire eater, wearer of gorilla suits, escape artist. In the late Nineties, producing records in Canada.

DAVE GAHR
Folk and rock photographer with a discerning eye.

DIANE GARDINER
Publicist for the Doors, friend and long-suffering neighbor of Jim Morrison.

DAVID GATES
A civilized recording artist. Leader of Bread.

BILL GAZZARI
Sunset Strip club owner, auditioned the Doors.

DAVID GEFFEN
Once and future enfant terrible, baby mogul, billionaire rising.

BOB GIBSON
Washington Square folkie, traveling twelve-string guitarist, talent scout extraordinaire. Died in 1996.

TONY "LITTLE SUN" GLOVER
Of Koerner, Ray & Glover. A young white blues musician out of Minneapolis.

CYNTHIA GOODING
Tall, beautiful, intelligent, multilingual Village folk singer.

PEARL GOODMAN
Jac's soul-of-discretion secretary for three decades.

SAM GOODY
Big record store man in New York City.

JIM GORDON
Rock drummer on a Judy Collins album, later beat his mother to death with a hammer.

ARTHUR GORSON
Manager of singer-songwriters, Sixties activist.

BILL GRAHAM
Mr. Fillmore, West and East. Killed in helicopter accident 1991.

GEORGE GRAVES
Jac's driver. Played great pool, spoke softly, and carried a big switchblade.

ANTON GREENE
A stuffer of quail eggs.

JEANIE GREENE
Southern reincarnation of Mary Magdalene.

MARLIN GREENE
Husband of Jeanie. An Alabama State Trouper.

JOYCE GRENFELL
An English comedienne with a spy camera.

ALBERT GROSSMAN
The Jabba the Hutt of artist managers, sometimes referred to as "the floating Buddha." Represented Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Band, Janis Joplin. Died 1986.

WOODY GUTHRIE
Nonpareil folk chronicler of America: this land was his land.

JOHN HAENY
Elektra studio engineer of great virtuosity and Virgosity.

BRUCE HARRIS
A miniskirt-mesmerized freshman, later an Elektra publicist.

LARRY HARRIS
Music business lawyer at CBS who walked across the street to Elektra.

STEVE HARRIS
Elektra's good shepherd for Jim Morrison, Tim Buckley, and Carly Simon.

GEORGE HARRISON
A fan of Delaney & Bonnie.

BILL HARVEY
Elektra art director. Created and elaborated the label's visual identity. Died in early Nineties.

FRED HELLERMAN
A Weaver of wisdom, arranger for Theodore Bikel.

SUZANNE HELMS
Ran Elektra's West Coast office. Jazz aficionado, auto mechanic, chocolate lover, dog trainer, disciplinarian of Jim Morrison. Married a jazz bassist, lives in Switzerland.

JIMI HENDRIX
A jammer in a cabana, and a Plaster Castee.

JUDY HENSKE
Stood tall, sang strong, opened for Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen in a Louise Brooks wig.

THE HOLY MODAL ROUNDERS
On drums, Sam Shepard. Rockin' around on that belladonna cloud—Euphoria!

ADAM HOLZMAN
Son of Jac and Nina. Grew up to play keyboard with Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Chaka Khan, Grover Washington Jr.

JAC HOLZMAN
El Supremo of Elektra 1950-1973, from age nineteen to forty-two. Continued with Warner Communications as Chief Technologist. In 1982, became chairman of Panavision Inc. In 1986, created FirstMedia, which acquired Cinema Products, makers of the Steadicam. Came back to music in 1991, establishing the Discovery family of labels, which in the late Nineties became part of the Sire Records Group, a unit of Time Warner.

KEITH HOLZMAN
Jac's brother and working colleague at Elektra and Nonesuch.

NINA HOLZMAN
Was Nina Merrick. Married Jac in 1955. Mother of Adam and Jaclyn. At Elektra, invaluable yin to Jac's yang. Later Nina Lamb.

THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND
A trippy British group.

MICHAEL JAMES JACKSON
Stockboy-novelist-observer of the Elektra LA scene.

SANDY JACKSON
An escapee from Synanon. Second chair in an encounter group.

RON JACOBS
Boss Jock of Southern California rock radio.

MICK JAGGER
A fan of the Elektra studio in LA.

BILLY JAMES
Laurel Canyon hipster. One of the earliest record business company freaks. Saw the Doors as worth signing, managed the teenage Jackson Browne. Husband of Judy.

JUDY JAMES
Wife of Billy. Watched the Laurel Canyon creatures come and go. Theater and philosophy major, later a theater and movie producer, partner of Richard Dreyfuss.

DICK JAMES
Publisher of the Beatles' music.

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
Toured with the Doors, sharing notes about the nature and quality of life and pharmacology in the Sixties.

DR. JOHN
A night tripper, a somewhat strung-out session musician for Judy Collins.

JANIS JOPLIN
Almost but not quite an Elektra artist.

SHERRI KANDELL
A high school Strip chick in bellbottom hip huggers. Danced in a go-go cage at the Whisky and on top of the deli at Canter's.

DAVE KAPP
Of Kapp Records. Made an offer that Jac could refuse.

KATHY AND CAROL
Joan Baez times two.

LENNY KAYE
Musician, writer, anthologist and thinker.

STACY KEACH
An actor encountered by Jac. Lover of Judy Collins.

SALLY KELLERMAN
A waitress at the Unicorn.

JANICE KENNER
Teenage beloved of the teenage Jackson Browne. One of the Three Graces of Paxton.

FRED KEWLEY
Manager of Harry Chapin.

CAROLE KING
A Laurel Canyon dog owner.

"SPIDER" JOHN KOERNER
Out of Minneapolis, a young white urban blues man.

KOERNER, RAY & GLOVER
Surprised and delighted Jac's ear—a new direction for Elektra.

SANDY KONIKOFF
Sal Mineo as Gene Krupa. A drummer for Dylan. Purveyor of the Sphincterphone.

BERNIE KRAUSE
With Paul Beaver, a pioneer of synthesizer music.

ROBBY KRIEGER
The Doors' guitarist. The Jackson Pollock of rock. Writer of 'Light My Fire.'

KRIS KRISTOFFERSON
Played with Carly Simon.

JIM LADD
A Doors true believer.

BOB LANDY
An anagrammatic piano player.

RHONDA LANE
Go-go dancer in a go-go cage.

KANDY LATSON
Leader of an encounter group. And a snorter.

TIMOTHY LEARY
Evangelist of the sacrament of LSD.

ARTHUR LEE
Early into psychedelic eyewear. Leader of Love. Emblematic of the mid-Sixties west coast scene.

JOHN LENNON
Fan of Koerner, Ray & Glover.

HAROLD LEVENTHAL
Grand old man of folk artist management, from the Weavers to Judy Collins to Arlo Guthrie.

HARRY LEW
An Elektra distributor.

MONSIEUR L'HÔPITAL
An immaculately clad Frenchman whose word was good.

THE LIMELITERS
Jac's first chart group: Lou Gottlieb, Alex Hassilev, Glenn Yarbrough.

FRANK LISCIANDRO
A Morrison watcher.

ALAN LOMAX
Like his father John, a great white folk collector.

THE LOS ANGELES FANTASY ORCHESTRA
It seemed like a good idea at the time.

LOVE
Jac's first West Coast rock and roll band.

THE LOVIN' SPOONFUL
One that Jac missed out on. John Sebastian was his friend.

THE LOWER EAST SIDE
David Peel's stoned band—"Have a Marijuana."

LONNIE MACK
A wham of a Memphis man, later a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitar player.

CHARLES MANSON
Wannabe Elektra artist, mass murderer.

RAY MANZAREK
Doors keyboardist and keeper of the flame.

PHIL MANZINI
Threw Manzarek, Morrison, Krieger, and Densmore out of the Whisky onto the Sunset Strip—"This is the end!" MC5. Revolutionary rockers out of Detroit.

PAUL McCARTNEY
A recommender of bespoke boots.

PAT McCOY
A fan in the radio business.

ED McCURDY
Village folkie. Recorded for Jac in the Fifties. Big baritone voice and sharp tongue.

BROWNIE McGHEE
Vintage black folk singer.

GEORGE McGOVERN
Fan of 'Amazing Grace.'

BARRY McGUIRE
The voice of God in Laurel Canyon.

BHASKAR MENON
Head of Capitol Records, later Chairman of EMI.

FREDDIE MERCURY
Glam rocker, lead singer of Queen. Died November 1991.

BETTE MIDLER
Judy Henske was what Bette wanted to be when she grew up.

RUSS MILLER
Ran Elektra's publishing, produced; was Elektra's man in Nashville.

JONI MITCHELL
A beginning song writer and lady of the Canyon.

FRAZIER MOHAWK
AKA Barry Friedman. Practitioner of Laurel Canyon voodoo, inducer and producer of psychedelic albums.

JIM MORRISON
Lead singer of the Doors. Rock icon, lethally intelligent stoned explorer of the dark and the deep. Dead poet, July 1971.

VAN MORRISON
Jammed with the Doors at the Whisky.

CRAZY NANCY
Crazy for Jim Morrison. Hung out for love, broke in and stole for desperation.

FRED NEIL
Uniquely talented musician, prototypical flake.

PAUL NELSON
Founder of the Little Sandy Review, folk-friend of Jac.

MICHAEL NESMITH
Ex-Monkee. Produced for Countryside Records.

BOB NEUWIRTH
Hippest of the hip, sharpest of the sharp, hired gun of Bob Dylan, designated minder of Jim Morrison.

JACK NICHOLSON
Friend of a friend of Carly Simon.

NICO
An apparition, a disapparition, a death-talker, a waver of guns, a naked dancer with Jim Morrison. Also a member of the Velvet Underground. Died from heat exhaustion while bicycling in Spain 1988.

MICHAEL OCHS
The ultimate rock archivist. Brother of Phil.

PHIL OCHS
Protest singer second only to Dylan—but that hurt. Died a suicide 1976.

LOTTIE OLCOTT
One of the Three Graces of Paxton Lodge.

MO OSTIN
A recording industry legend. Chairman of Warner Bros. Records, and in the Nineties Dreamworks Records.

DR. PANGLOSS.
Voltaire's philosopher. Would have made an enthusiastic radio promotion man.

CHARLIE PARKER
A night visitor.

VAN DYKE PARKS
Backup musician for Judy Collins.

PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND
White and black electric blues. Blew the house down at Newport.

TOM PAXTON
A singer-songwriter, endlessly productive.

RICHARD PEASLEE
Composer of the music for "Marat/Sade."

DAVID PEEL
Voice of the Lower East Side.

MICHELLE PHILLIPS
A Mama.

GEORGE PICKOW
Photographer. Did early album covers for Elektra. Husband of Jean Ritchie.

THE PLASTER CASTERS
Cynthia and Diane. Performance artists ahead of their time.

PLATO
An urban music critic.

POMPEO POSAR
Photographed album covers for Jac and later Playmates for Hugh Hefner.

MEL POSNER
A boy from Brooklyn. From stock boy to president of Elektra, later head of international division of Geffen Records.

THE PSYCHEDELIC STOOGES
Iggy's band.

ANN PURTILL
Brought Jac to listen to Harry Chapin.

QUEEN
The ultimate British glam rock band. Jac's last major signing.

IAN RALFINI
Ran the London office of Warner/Elektra/Atlantic—WEA—which was like juggling chainsaws.

DAVE "SNAKER" RAY
Of Koerner, Ray & Glover.

SUSAN REED
A red-haired folk singer.

JACK REINSTEIN
Elektra accountant, king of the adversary audit.

RHINOCEROS
A supergroup that staggered under the weight of talent and expectations.

FRITZ RICHMOND
Mr. Jug Band. His washtub bass is in the Smithsonian. Famous Cambridge folk scene viper. Studio engineer at Elektra LA. Brother of Marty.

MARTY RICHMOND
Brother of Fritz. Saw it all, from Paxton Lodge to Tranquility Base to Lahaina, Maui.

PAUL RICKOLT
Jac's first Elektra partner.

JOSHUA RIFKIN
Kazoo and piano player with the Even Dozen Jug Band, arranger for Judy Collins, wunderkind musicologist for Nonesuch Records, revitalizer of Scott Joplin rags.

LEONARD RIPLEY
Mustachioed playboy. Jac's Elektra partner, bought out in 1958. Husband of Alexandra, who later wrote "Scarlett," the sequel to "Gone with the Wind."

JEAN RITCHIE
Classic early folk singer from Viper, Kentucky. Wife of George Pickow.

SUE ROBERTS
Elektra business affairs supervisor. One of the first female record company executives.

ROLLING STONES
Heard and appreciated by Jac during an audition taping in London, but not available for signing.

PHIL ROSE
Record executive who ate more cake than he ever thought he would have to.

WESLEY ROSE
A Nashville music publisher.

STEVE ROSS
The charming conglomerateur of Warner Communications and then Time Warner. Died 1992.

ARLYNE ROTHBERG
Manager of Carly Simon.

DAN ROTHCHILD
Son of Paul and Terry, grew up to be a musician-producer.

PAUL ROTHCHILD
Jac's high-powered producer all through the big years of the Sixties. With the Doors, had five gold albums in a row and platinum rising. Died of cancer in the spring of 1995. Jac was with him to the end.

TERRY ROTHCHILD
Wife of Paul, mother of Dan.

ROBB ROYER
A member of Bread.

TOM RUSH
A singer-songwriter-guitarist with commanding presence.

IRWIN RUSSELL
More than corporate counsel, a wise personal counselor to Jac.

LEON RUSSELL
Heavy-duty keyboard player.

SABICAS
Fast-fingered flamenco guitarist.

BOB SACKS
At St. John's College, had a record player and a collection of folk 78s that turned Jac on.

ELLEN SANDER
Rock journalist, immortalizer in print of the Plaster Casters, Jac's lover, mother of Marin.

MARIN PAUL TAJ RAIN SANDER-HOLZMAN
Son of Ellen and Jac, born in Bolinas. Grew up to be an actor-dancer in San Francisco.

JOE SARASINO
Record executive who told the Doors to get out of his office with their insane songs.

AL SCHLESINGER
A gentlemanly music business attorney-at-law—and that is not an oxymoron.

JOHN SEBASTIAN
Session musician for Elektra, later for Lovin' Spoonful, later again lived in a tie-dye tent.

PETE SEEGER
Traditional folk music's voice of conscience.

CLIVE SELWOOD
Elektra's man in England. Released 'Amazing Grace' as a single.

MAURICE SENDAK
A West Village bathroom muralist.

SAM SHEPARD
A drummer, a Holy Modal Rounder.

BILL SIDDONS
Teenage manager of the Doors, grew to maturity and acquired wisdom on the job.

PAUL SIEBEL
Sixties singer-songwriter. An Elektra favorite who never found a big audience.

PETER SIEGEL
A producer with an ear for real folk.

JEFF SILVERMAN
A teenager with a camera, in the right place at the wrong time.

SHEL SILVERSTEIN
Hairy jazz man; later a famous cartoonist, versifier, and writer of children's books.

CARLY SIMON
Singer-songwriter, Woman of the Seventies, class act.

PAUL SIMON
Almost but not quite an Elektra artist in his youth.

JOHN SINCLAIR
A White Panther.

GRACE SLICK
Would not be wooed away from Jefferson Airplane to solo at Elektra.

HARRY SMITH
Folk anthologist, formative for Bob Dylan.

JOE SMITH
One of the fastest minds and mouths in the record business. President of Warner Bros. Records and then Capitol Records.

MAYNARD SOLOMON
With brother Seymour, founder of Vanguard Records, friendly competitor of Elektra. Later the renowned biographer of Beethoven and Mozart.

SEYMOUR SOLOMON
With brother Maynard, founder of Vanguard Records.

ABE SOMER
Pit bull lawyer, and that's not an oxymoron.

ROGER SOMERS
Wild man of Muir Woods, Pied Piper of the hot tub, design genius.

EDWARD SOREL
An album cover illustrator for Nonesuch Records in his youth.

JOSEPH SPENCE
Guitar wizard of the Bahamas.

GEORGE STEELE
Played celebratory trumpet in the office when Elektra had a hit.

ESTELLE STERNBERGER
Jac's much loved maternal grandmother.

TERESA "TRACEY" STERNE
Presiding intelligence of Nonesuch Records.

CAT STEVENS
On the bill at the Troubadour with Carly Simon.

STEPHEN STILLS
A lover of Judy Collins.

IGGY STOOGE
Teenage father of premature punk.

JONATHAN TAPLIN
Roadie for Dylan, later a movie producer.

JAMES TAYLOR
Sat at the feet of Carly Simon.

STUDS TERKEL
A writer of liner notes for early Elektra, later a famous Chicago broadcaster and author.

SONNY TERRY
Vintage black folk singer.

THEM
Van Morrison's band. Jammed with the Doors at the Whisky.

THE TRAVELERS 3
Multicultural folk trio.

VINCE TREANOR
Sound man for the Doors' tours. The King of Loud.

JOHN VAN HAMMERSVELD
Observer of the LA scene.

DAVE VAN RONK
Village folkie, white blues man, jug band leader.

PAUL VENEKLASSEN
Acoustical engineer for the LA Elektra studio.

VITO
The old man of the Whisky dance floor.

ELLEN VOGT
Second chair to David Anderle at Elektra LA. Found Jim Morrison face down in the bushes.

KIM VON TEMPSKI
A ship's purser bearing an aromatic sealed envelope.

ANDY WARHOL
Artist famous for more than fifteen minutes. Gave Jim Morrison a gold Louis XIV phone.

ANNE WARNER
Fed Jac Brunswick stew in his hungry Village days. Wife of Frank.

FRANK WARNER
Husband of Anne. Folk song collector and singer. Recorded 'Tom Dooley.' Owned a famous autographed banjo.

THE WEAVERS
A founding folk group.

KURT WEILL
Songwriter for the Doors.

GEORGE WEIN
Founder of the Newport Folk Festival.

J. MAX WEIS
Jac's grandfather. A rebel rabbi.

JANN WENNER
The once and future Mr. Rolling Stone.

DOUG WESTON
Owner of the Troubadour in LA.

JERRY WEXLER
Mr. R&B. With the Ertegun brothers, made up the Atlantic Records triumvirate.

JOSH WHITE
Black folk singer, virtuoso guitarist, charismatic showman. Died September 1969.

TIMOTHY WHITE
Teenage Elektra fan from the Jersey ‘burbs. Later a writer of fine books about music and musicians, editor of Billboard.

THE WHO
Shared the bill with the Doors more than once.

FRED WILLIAMS
On the scene down on the Farm.

PAUL WILLIAMS
Founder of Ur-rock magazine Crawdaddy; godfather of Marin Sander-Holzman.

STEVIE WONDER
In pursuit of a Number One record.

JERRY YESTER
Guitarist for Judy Henske, later produced Tim Buckley, and later again Tom Waits.

IZZY YOUNG
Proprietor of the Folk Center in the Village, intermittent bill payer.

BOB ZACHARY
Elektra producer-executive.

FRANK ZAPPA
Father of the Mothers of Invention, patron of the Plaster Casters, passionate advocate of free speech in rock lyrics. Died 1993.

WARREN ZEVON
An excitable boy in Laurel Canyon.