Frank Tortorici
Frank Tortorici is a corporate communications director for a major business research organization who has moonlighted periodically as a music writer. He was a contributing editor to Sonicnet/Vh1.com for more than four years and was also a contributing editor to Addicted to Noise, and he has written for Preamp.com and Katrillion.com. Frank lives in Garwood, New Jersey with his wife, two children, and three cats, and commutes to Manhattan daily. He has also ghostwritten innumerable business articles for corporate executives during his quarter-century-long career.
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List of articles in the library
Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page/Robert Plant: Page and Plant (1998)
Interview by Frank Tortorici, Rock's Backpages audio, 1998
The ex-Zep duo talk about the more straightforward direction of their new Walking Into Clarksdale album; and about working with Steve Albini, meeting Jeff Buckley and their love of Joni Mitchell.
File format: mp3; file size: 12.9mb, interview length: 13' 25" sound quality: ***
KRS-One Launches 'Hip-Hop Appreciation Week'
Report by Frank Tortorici, Addicted To Noise, 9 February 1998
Rapper brings rap and music community together to raise awareness. ...
Jimmy Page/Robert Plant: Ex-Zeppelin Pilots Page & Plant Launch New LP
Interview by Frank Tortorici, Addicted To Noise, 24 March 1998
NEW YORK – Robert Plant was in a playful mood, despite the fact that he had been waiting anxiously for his former Led Zeppelin cohort ...
Stevie Nicks: '98's Best: One A Stevie, Two A Stevie, Three A Stevie...
Report by Frank Tortorici, Addicted To Noise, 13 May 1998
IN A CROWD of 500, you could count about 200 look-alike, sound-alike, dress-alike Stevies. But there's only one Stevie Nicks. ...
Profile by Frank Tortorici, Addicted To Noise, 11 June 1998
ZZ TOP'S DRUMMER, Frank Beard, was born on this day in 1949 in Frankston, Texas. He began drumming in 1964 and formed ZZ Top, the ...
Placebo Aim To Shed Drug-Crazed Hedonist Image
Interview by Frank Tortorici, VH1.com, 3 October 1998
On upcoming second album, funk-punk trio takes mature look at personal toll of fame. ...
Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello: Pop Go Costello And Bacharach Onstage
Live Review by Frank Tortorici, sonicnet.com, 15 October 1998
New-wave pioneer and '60s-pop tunesmith open their tour at Radio City Music Hall. Contributing Editor Frank Tortorici reports ...
The Beatles: Tony Barrow: Beatles Confidant Offers Glimpse Inside Mania
Report and Interview by Frank Tortorici, sonicnet.com, 29 March 1999
Publicist Tony Barrow was there for the "We're more popular than Jesus" and "Paul is dead" crises. ...
Retrospective by Frank Tortorici, MTV.com, 25 June 1999
SINGER HARRIET WHEELER is the main ingredient in the sound of the British jangle-pop band the Sundays. Her high, lilting voice floating over boyfriend David ...
Profile by Frank Tortorici, MTV.com, 28 June 1999
THE TALENTS of Colin Hay were one of the main reasons for the phenomenal early-'80s success of the Australian pop-rock band Men at Work. The ...
Profile by Frank Tortorici, Addicted To Noise, 30 September 1999
ROBBY TAKAC is bassist/singer for the Goo Goo Dolls, the highly successful thrash-pop band best known for such smash ballads as 'Iris' and 'Name'. ...
The Band, Rick Danko: The Band's Rick Danko Dies At 56
Obituary by Frank Tortorici, sonicnet.com, 11 December 1999
RICK DANKO, whose high voice marked such roots-rock classics by The Band as 'The Weight' and 'Stage Fright', was found dead Friday morning (Dec. 10) ...
The Fleetwoods' Gretchen Christopher
Profile by Frank Tortorici, MTV.com, 28 February 2000
ONE OF THE FEW leap-year babies to make a mark on the pop charts is Gretchen Christopher, one-third of the pop-vocal trio the Fleetwoods, best ...
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