If there’s one thing that can be said about Joe Walsh, it’s that he knows his position in the rock community and he takes it seriously. He knows thousands of kids will cling to his every word and take it as the gospel.

Wilson Pickett served as a role model for thousands of potential soul singers with his style, gruff delivery and charisma. For the last three years of the 1970s, however, the man and his music were unaccountably silent. When one reaches the height and then drops from sight, it’s natural for the rumor mill to start grinding.

This is a movie blockbuster that has yet to be made. The story of Concetta Rosemarie Franconero of Newark is filled with heartbreak, drama and violence amid some of the greatest vocal performances on record ever.

Bill Evans, from North Plainfield, is “one of the greatest pianists” according to Herbie Hancock. The genius of Bill Evans lay in how he utilized harmonic structures to create almost an impressionist interpretation of the jazz idiom.

Inducted posthumously into the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, the story of Clyde McPhatter can only be construed as a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions.

No one, not even Bruce, ever actually named one of his albums ‘New Jersey.’ Back then, JonBon, as we used to call him, wore his Jersey roots on his sleeve. Literally.