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Today's Guest: Legendary rock singer Gary U.S. Bonds, author of the rock memoir By US Bonds.
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media® interview with 'Quarter to Three' rock 'n' roll singing legend Gary U.S. Bonds by clicking on the video player above!Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of people who claim to know the actual words to "Louie Louie" but probably stand a better chance of knowing who Daddy G is in "Quarter to Three" … in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

Here's a story you don't know about a man whose music you do know: Norfolk, Virginia's favorite and the Jersey shore's adopted son, Gary "U.S." Bonds!

I just finished reading By U.S. Bonds: That's My Story. It's the kind of book we need more of, one that tells what happens to a performer that rockets to fame and what happens to them when the kleig lights are turned to the next "superstar."
GARY U.S. BONDS podcast excerpt: "I had no idea who Bruce Springsteen was. I was doing the 'Holiday Inn Tour.' Whoever had a lounge, that's where I'd be playing. I wasn't listening to a lot of radio. I was too busy learning what I had to do to make the crowd happy in whatever city I was in. What old songs do they like? I didn't hear the new guys. I knew Bob Dylan, but I didn't like him. One of Bruce's friends came up to me at this hotel lounge sage and said, 'I've got a friend who really likes your music--he'd like to come up and do a song.' It was cool to have anybody come up and give me a chance to go to the bar and have a beer! I said, 'Here's a friend of mine, he'd like to sing a song: Mr. Bruce Springsteen!' And the crowd went wild. I'm going, "Who the hell IS this guy?"'" 

In the case of Bonds -- who was born Gary Anderson -- he was the recipient of a second shot at the brass ring 20 years after he first hit it big with his such as "New Orleans" and "Quarter to Three," thanks to the admiration and attention of New Jersey's favorite son, Bruce

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