Kenny's at the wheel of a rented Lincoln Continental, Meryl's up front, and me and Joan and seven-year-old Carianne Laguna are scrunching together in the back seat like mom and dad and the kids in the 'burbs, and this is the way it is for Joan a lot of the time, 'cause she lives with Kenny and Meryl and Cari in Rockville Center, Long Island, when she's not on the road. And it became more important to me than politics, more important to me than anything else in this society. “Whoa! And then there was Chuck Berry! And then there was this whole thing. “I never got over seeing Jailhouse Rock,” is one of the first things Kenny Laguna, who's managed Joan for the last eight years with his wife Meryl, tells me. You can do anything.”ĭo you believe in rock 'n' roll? Do you believe in the magic that'll thrill your soul? Do you still wanna die before you get old?
“And then,” she smiles, her mouth sneaking up at the corners like a leprechaun-gone-wrong, “once you get a following, nobody can take that away from you. And once you get a following, you can get more gigs, and get a bigger following. Even if ya gotta play for nothin', or almost nothin'.” “But the most important thing is to keep playing. “Yeah, I know it's hard.” Joan says in her gravel rasp that lets you know just how hard.
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