Laurie Kaye BIO and book story !  It's all featured and described in my memoir - Confessions Of a Rock 'n' Roll Name-Dropper: My Life Leading Up to John Lennon's Last Interview - it's includes the details of my rock radio related life and career wrapped around December 8th. 1980 !

Laurie Kaye began her career in radio at KFRC-AM San Francisco, for years the nation’s greatest top 40 stations, where she started out as an intern and worked her way up to on-air reporter and news anchor as well as at other radio stations including WOW in Omaha and KING in Seattle. She wrote and co-produced numerous national radio rock specials for RKO Radio, including the lengthy 14 hour show RKO Presents the Beatles which was later internationally syndicated and expanded to 17 hours when she retitled it The Beatles from Liverpool to Legend!  In June 1979, Rock reporter Laurie Kaye and her RKO team interviewed Paul and Linda McCartney and their latest lineup of Wings in London, and then they were sent to New York to interview Yoko Ono and John Lennon at the Dakota on December 8th. 1980 - mere hours before John was shot and killed!  Directly that tragic day, Laurie wrote the 3 hour international special John Lennon: The Man The Memory, which featured the bulk of their incredible interview.

After their time with John and Yoko ended,  Laurie went outside the Dakota and was immediately accosted by a creepy guy who she refuses to name  - he turned out later that night to be John's assassin!  She recounts the full story of that fateful day in her recently released book - Confessions of a Rock ’n’ Roll Name-Dropper: My Life Leading Up to John Lennon’s Last Interview - which is her memoir about her life as a SoCal Gal with a troubled childhood (rasied by a dysfunctional family!) who got into rock and roll before becoming a toddler thanks to a transistor radio, which led her to listen to, see on TV and in concert, and eventually interview many of the world’s most famous rock stars!

After her experience at RKO Radio, Laurie went to work for the late, great Dick Clark to write his weekly radio countdown show and weekly syndicated national newspaper column! She then moved on to producing/creating music video magazines and television and film promos, pilots, etc. as a writer, producer, and casting director.