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Frank Tortorici

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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Band, The, Rick Danko: The Band's Rick Danko Dies At 56

Obituary by Frank Tortorici, sonicnet.com, 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) ...

Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach: Pop Go Costello And Bacharach Onstage

Live Review by Frank Tortorici, sonicnet.com, October 1998

New-wave pioneer and '60s-pop tunesmith open their tour at Radio City Music Hall. Contributing Editor Frank Tortorici reports ...

Goo Goo Dolls' Robby Takac

Profile by Frank Tortorici, Addicted To Noise, 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'. ...

KRS-One Launches 'Hip-Hop Appreciation Week'

Report by Frank Tortorici, Addicted To Noise, February 1998

Rapper brings rap and music community together to raise awareness. ...

Stevie Nicks: '98's Best: One A Stevie, Two A Stevie, Three A Stevie...

Report by Frank Tortorici, Addicted To Noise, 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. ...

Jimmy Page/Robert Plant: Ex-Zeppelin Pilots Page & Plant Launch New LP

Interview by Frank Tortorici, Addicted To Noise, 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 ...

Placebo Aim To Shed Drug-Crazed Hedonist Image

Interview by Frank Tortorici, VH1.com, October 1998

On upcoming second album, funk-punk trio takes mature look at personal toll of fame. ...

ZZ Top's Frank Beard

Profile by Frank Tortorici, Addicted To Noise, 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 ...

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