While I busy myself turning my mammoth look at Jean Acker’s life and career, and her life-long association with Rudolph Valentino, from a three part post to a four part post, an opporunity presents itself for me to reshare my hour long chat about Rudy on local radio last year. The interviewer, Alan Porter Barnes, quizzes me during the sixty minutes, about how I first became interested in Valentino, allows me to talk about my travels, my Blog, Rudolph’s amazing career and some of his most important films, and asks me about my planned book about the Immortal Superstar. Along the way we play no less than four related tunes: Rudy singing Kashmiri Song (Pale Hands I Loved), The Beatles singing The Sheik of Araby, The Bangles singing Manic Monday, and Years and Years and MNEK singing Valentino.
The interview and the four tracks can be heard in full here:
His Fame Still Lives 
I did enjoy this interview a lot, Simon. Can’ t wait for your book, I am pretty sure it will be excellent one.
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I’m SO pleased. And it was a lot of fun to prepare and to do.
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Sadly, I had to leave before I could hear the whole interview, but I’ll come back to listen to the rest.
Your dedication is remarkable. Thanks for sharing your findings with us here in your blog. 🙂
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And thank you for reading and feeding back. Much appreciated.
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Great interview.Just happened to find your blog this week. Learning a lot about Rudy. The book sounds like it will be a must-read. Thank you
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Thank you. And sorry for the late reply. The book is underway and I’m really enjoying writing it.
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