All of the Jan & Dean related music and studio clips in the promo video are from Jan Berry’s personal archive of tapes and acetates—his original recording sessions from the 1960s. The 1964 studio dialog between Jan Berry and Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys was first published in The Jan & Dean Record (2016)…
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Press Release – Dead Man’s Curve: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Life of Jan Berry
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Mark A. Moore, (919) New Biography Examines the Tragic Life of Jan Berry, a Pioneering Record Producer whose Music with Jan & Dean helped Establish the West Coast Sound in the late 1950s and Early 1960s. LOS ANGELES, CA – Summer 2021 – A new book from an award-winning author chronicles…
Book – Dead Man’s Curve: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Life of Jan Berry
Forthcoming on May 23, 2021. Pre-Order from Amazon.com Pre-Order from McFarland & Co. Jan Berry, leader of the music duo Jan & Dean from the late 1950s to mid-1960s, was an intense character who experienced more in his first 25 years than many do in a lifetime. As an architect of the West Coast sound,…