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Never MIA My Friends

December 3, 2024 – 12:24 pm

Barney Johnson, David Russell, Philippe Brook et moi. 1990s. The years were rough on this band. Barney I knew from Hurrah nightclub in the 1970s and and Philippe from Paris in the 1980s gone. Two years ago I came close to joining them and leaving David Russell, the youngest of us all, the only one […]

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Barney Johnson LIVING FOREVER

January 30, 2013 – 10:10 pm

Last night I attended a wake for a fellow atheist. The service was at a Ukrainian Funeral Home in the East Village. Barney and I had met in 1978. He was my boss at Hurrah, a punk disco on West 62nd Street. He survived the era of errors to be a proudly gay man with […]

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