Biography
Salvatore Phillip Bono, 16 February 1935, Detroit, Michigan, USA, d. 5 January 1998, Lake Tahoe, California, USA. Although primarily associated with the 60s folk rock boom, Bono’s career began the previous decade as director of A&R at Specialty Records. He co-wrote ‘She Said Yeah’ for Larry Williams, later covered by the Rolling Stones, and penned ‘KoKo Joe’ for Don & Dewey. Bono also pursued an unsuccessful recording career with the first of several singles bearing numerous aliases, including Don Christy (‘Wearing Black’), Sonny Christy and Ronny Sommers (‘Don’t Shake My Tree (Mama)’), and set-up the ill-fated Rush label. In 1963 he came under the aegis of producer Phil Spector at the Philles label, working as a PR man and studio assistant at the Goldstar Studios, but achieved greater fame when ‘Needles And Pins’, a collaboration with Spector’s engineer Jack Nitzsche, was successfully...
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