He played 96 shows across the world with Turner on her 1987 Break Every Rule World Tour. 'And I walked over and she gave me a big hug and a kiss and she said 'thank you for coming.'' Deric Dyer playing saxophone with Tina Turner 'She's standing there in the middle of the room and she's like giving me dirty looks and she says, 'I told them all to be mad at you because you were late,'' he chuckled. Unfortunately, he almost missed his shot when he was late to the audition. 'It's exactly how the industry works,' Deric Dyer said, explaining how a 1987 phone call to a friend landed the Boston saxophonist (Ireland native, English and Bermuda raised) an audition with Turner.

Reading resident Deric Dyer was lucky enough to play with the icon on her biggest world tour. The music icon died Wednesday at the age of 83. An impressively researched and richly detailed narrative.READING - We know her as the Queen of Rock and Roll, but those who loved her say Tina Turner was 'probably one of the nicest people you ever want to meet.' 'A heroic work of journalism on what must rank as one of the foremost catastrophes of modern history.'The New York Times This book remains one of the great works of contemporary journalism and provides the foundation for continuing debates over governmental failure in handling lethal epidemics.Īn international bestseller and winner of the Stonewall Book Award, which inspired an award-winning film And the Band Played On exposes why AIDS was allowed to spread while the medical and political authorities ignored and even denied the threat. He was perfectly placed to understand the cultural, medical and political impact of the disease on the gay community and United States society as a whole.

Shilts interviewed over 1,000 people, weaving together extensive research in the form of personal stories and political reportage. In 1981, the year when AIDS came to international attention, he quickly devoted himself to reporting on the developing epidemic, one which devastated his community and eventually took his life as well. Randy Shilts was the first openly gay journalist dealing with gay issues for the San Francisco Chronicle.

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