Decades In Obscurity, Beau Brummels Front Man Surfaces To Remind Us What The Fuss Was All About
Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 February 2006
SAL VALENTINO WAS washed up. "No one called in a long time," he says. "No one knew where I was."
There were even reports of his death. "My mother laughs every time she hears that," the 63-year-old rock singer says. "I didn't call her, either."
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