Southside Johnny Lyon’s voice always contained the kind of soul and grit that The Jersey Sound is all about. Unfortunately, in 2024, the 77-year old legend retired from live performances, citing health reasons. Yet on May 6, at The Elbow Room in Bradley Beach, he quietly stepped up to the microphone to sing with his old friend—and bandmate in the Asbury Jukes from 1986 to 2000—Bobby Bandiera.

Dennis P. Laverty—creator of such indie documentaries on Southside Johnny, Clarence Clemons and John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band—has finished a three-hour doc on Bobby Bandiera with concert footage, interviews, photo stills and clips from the ‘Aquarian Weekly’ and other regional newspapers