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The astonishing story of a gay Puerto Rican kid growing up in a Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhood, who got on the subway one | dG1fdXlRVENWTU9KM28
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00:00I was a gay record executive.
00:13Keep in mind I love heavy metal, I love the noise, I love the sweat, I love when I go
00:19to concerts it's 99% guys there.
00:39And then all of a sudden this important little cassette came across my desk.
00:47You know I'm so glad that Elago showed up to see us live.
00:51You know Michael Elago was an outsider in a mainstream kind of environment and we always
00:59considered ourselves to be outsiders in a sort of potentially mainstream environment.
01:05You could argue that we were perfect for each other you know.
01:08We were part of this worldwide new music thing that was happening.
01:13It was coming from England, it was coming from New York, it was coming from Australia.
01:17It was exciting.
01:18He was out to make it in the music business and you knew it.
01:23As cute and as sweet and as friendly and as enthusiastic as he was, he was also pretty
01:29seriously aggressive.
01:30Because when you're young and you're in a rock band and you go on the road for the first
01:34time and you've read Circus Magazine and all your heroes are drug addicts and alcoholics and
01:41so you want to do that too.
01:43When is this going to stop or when is this guy going to die?
01:46Where my mind would take me, never coming near.
01:47Scared my heart would break me, why am I here?
01:48Where my mind would take me, never coming near.
01:53Scared my heart would break me, why am I here?
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