Authors: Mark Bego
Turner, Lana
Turner, Tina
comeback
concert tours
The Turtles
Twain, Shania
Twiggy
“Two People Clinging to a Thread”
Two the Hard Way
Tyler, Bonnie
Tyler, Steve
Ullman, Tracy
United Armenian Fund Relief Organization
United Artists Records
Universal Music Records
Updike, John
Van Patten, Dick
Van Praagh, James
Vasquez, Junior
Vaughan, Robert
Vault Records
The Ventures
VH1 Divas Live ’99
videos, music
Cher’s Video Canteen
concert
“Walking in Memphis”
The Village People
Villechaize, Herve
Viva
Voight, Jon
Vreeland, Diana
Waggoner, Lyle
Waite, Ralph
The Walker Brothers
“Walking in Memphis”
“Wall of Sound” recording method.
See also
Spector, Phil
Ward, Fred
Warhol, Andy
Warner Brothers Pictures
Warner Brothers Records
rejections by.
See also
Reprise Records
Warren, Diane
Warwick, Dionne
“Wasn’t It Good”
Waters, John
“The Way of Love”
The Way of Love
“We All Sleep Alone”
WEA/Universal Records
Webb, Jimmy
Weinberg, Elyse
Weiner, Bob
Welch, Raquel
West Side Story
Wexler, Jerry
“What’ll I Do”
“When You Say Love”
Whitaker, Mary.
See
Bono, Mary (Whitaker)
White, Maurice
Whittaker, Forest
Whittaker, Steve
wigs.
See also
beauty; costumes; fashion; makeup
Wild on the Beach
Wilde, Oscar
Will & Grace
Williams, David
Williams, Larry
Williams, Robin
Willis, Bruce
Wilson, Flip
Wilson, Mary
Winters, Shelley
Winther, Jorn
The Witches of Eastwick
With Love, Cher
Wolf, Jeanne
Wolf, William
Wolfert, David
“A Woman’s Story”
Wonder, Stevie
The Wondrous World of Sonny & Cher
work schedule
Yates, Peter
“You Better Sit Down Kids”
“You Really Got a Hold on Me”
Young, Neil
Young, Robert
Zadora, Pia
Zeffirelli, Franco
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mark Bego is the author of several best-selling books on rock and roll and show business, with forty books published and over ten million books in print. His biographies include some of the biggest stars of rock, soul, pop, and country music. His first Top 10
New York Times
bestseller was
Michael!
[Jackson] (1984). Since that time he has written about the lives of Rock Hudson, Aretha Franklin, Jewel, and Madonna.
In the 1990s Bego branched out into country music books, writing
Country Hunks
(1994),
Country Gals
(1995),
I Fall to Pieces: The Music and the Life of Patsy Cline
(1995),
Alan Jackson: Gone Country
(1996),
George Strait: The Story of Country’s Living Legend
(1997),
LeAnn Rimes
(1998), and
Vince Gill
(2000). In 2000, his Patsy Cline biography was rated by
E! Online
as one of the Top 10 music bios of all times.
Bego has coauthored books with several rock stars, including Martha Reeves’s
Dancing in the Street: Confessions of a Motown Diva
, which spent five weeks on the
Chicago Tribune
bestseller list in 1994. He worked with Micky Dolenz of the Monkees (
I’m a Believer
, 1993), Jimmy Greenspoon of Three Dog Night (
One Is the Loneliest Number
, 1991), and Mary Wilson (
Dreamgirl: My Life as a Supreme
, 2000 edition).
His writing has also been featured in several record albums and compact discs. In 1982 he wrote the interior notes to the Columbia House five-record boxed set
The Motown Collection
. His liner notes can also be found in the CDs Mary Wilson,
Walk the Line
(1992) and Martha Reeves & the Vandellas,
Lost and Found
(Motown Records 2001).
In 1998 Mark wrote books about three of the hottest leading men in late 1990s cinema. His
Leonardo DiCaprio: Romantic Hero
spent six weeks on the
New York Times
bestseller list. He followed it up with
Matt Damon: Chasing a Dream
and
Will Smith: The Freshest Prince
.
In 1998 Melitta Coffee launched
Mark Bego: Romantic Hero
blend coffee as part of their Celebrity Series. Mark divides his time between New York City, Los Angeles, and Tucson, Arizona. Visit his website at
www.MarkBego.com
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Mark Bego
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