Bette Midler (71 page)

Valli, Frankie

Vandross, Luther

Vanity Fair
magazine

Variety

Vaughn, Sarah

VH1 Honors celebration

Viacom Inc.

“The Vicki Eydie Show”

Video Movie Guide 2001

Video Movie Guide 2002

Vierra, Merideth

A View from a Broad
(book)

The View
(talk show)

Vilanch, Bruce

Village People

Village Voice

voice lessons

von Haselberg, Martin.
See also
Kipper, Harry

von Haselberg, Sophie Frederica Alohilani

Von Sydow, Max

Wahl, Ken

Waits, Tom

“Wall of Sound” (song)

Walsh, Brock

Walton, Tony

Warhol, Andy

Warner Brothers Records

Warwick, Dionne

Was, Don

Washington, Dinah

Washington Post

Waters, Ethel

“We Are Family” (song)

“We Are the World” (song)

websites

Webster, Paul Francis

Weill, Kurt

“Weird Peanuts” (story)

Welch, Raquel

Welk, Lawrence

“We’ll Be Together Again” (song)

West, Mae

Weyman, Andrew D.

“What A Difference a Day Makes” (song)

What Women Want
(film)

“Wheel of Fortune” (song)

wheelchairs

“When a Man Loves a Woman” (song)

“When Your Life Was Low” (song)

White House, Washington, D.C.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
(TV show)

“Whose Side Are You On?” (song)

“Why Bother?”

Wilde, Oscar

Williams, Esther

Williams, Robin

Wilson, Flip

Wiltern Theater, Los Angeles

“The Wind beneath My Wings” (song)

awards for

sung at 911 memorial service

sung at prayer gathering

sung in
Diva Las Vegas

Winfrey, Oprah

Winnie: My Life in the Institution

“Winter Wonderland” (song)

The Wiz
(Broadway show)

The Wizard of Oz
(Broadway show)

WKTU radio station

Wlosczyna, Susan

WMAQ-TV

Wogan
(TV show)

Wonder, Stevie

Wood, Natalie

work ethic

Working
(Broadway show)

world concert tours

World Trade Center

Worth, Marvin

Would Anyone Please Kill My Wife?
(film)

WWOR-TV

“Wynken, Blynken and Nod” (song)

Yakety Yak: Take It Back
(video)

“Yakety Yak (Don’t Talk Back)” (song)

Yankee Stadurn, New York

Yanni, Nick

“Yellow Beach Umbrella” (song)

York, Don

“You Can’t Always Get What You Want” (song)

“You Do Something to Me” (song)

“You Don’t Know Me” (song)

“You Don’t Own Me” (song)

“You Got to Have Friends” (song)

“You’ll Never Get Away from Me” (song)

“Young Americans” (song)

Young, Neil

“You’re Moving Out Today” (song)

Yugo Car Company

Ziegfeld Theater, New York City

Zsigmond, Vilmos

Zucker, David

Zucker, Jerry

ZZ Top

Mark Bego
is the author of several best-selling books on rock & roll and show business. With forty books published and over ten million books in print, he is acknowledged as the best-selling biographer in the rock and pop music field. His biographies have included the life stories of some of the biggest stars of rock, soul, pop, and country. His first Top Ten
New York Times
best-seller was
Michael!
about Michael Jackson (1984). Since that time, he has written about the lives of
Cher!
(2001),
Rock Hudson: Public & Private
(1986),
Aretha Franklin: Queen of Soul
(1989),
Bonnie Raitt: Just in the Nick of Time
(1996),
Jewel
(1998), and
Madonna: Blonde Ambition
(2000).

In the 1990s Bego has branched out into country music books, writing
Country Hunks
(1994),
Country Gals
(1995),
I Fall to Pieces: The Music and the Life of Patsy Cline
(1995),
Alan Jackson: Gone Country
(1996),
George Strait: The Story of Country’s Living Legend
(1997),
LeAnn Rimes
(1998), and
Vince Gill
(2000).

Bego has coauthored books with several rock stars, including Martha Reeves:
Dancing in the Street, Confessions of a Motown Diva
, which spent five weeks on the
Chicago Tribune
Best-Seller list in 1994. He worked with Micky Dolenz of the Monkees (
I’m a Believer
, 1993), Jimmy Greenspoon of Three Dog Night
(One Is the Loneliest Number
, 1991), and Mary Wilson (
Dreamgirl: My Life As a Supreme
, 2000 edition).

His writing has also been featured in several record albums and compact discs. In 1982 he wrote the interior notes to the Columbia House five-record boxed set
The Motown Collection
. His liner notes can also be found in the CD
Mary Wilson, Walk the Line
(1992).

In 1998 Mark wrote books about three of the hottest leading men in late ’90s cinema. His
Leonardo DiCaprio: Romantic Hero
spent six weeks on the
New York Times
best-seller list. He followed it up with
Matt Damon: Chasing a Dream
and
Will Smith: The Freshest Prince
.

In 1998 Melitta Coffee launched
Mark Bego: Romantic Hero
blend coffee as part of its Celebrity Series. He is currently developing his book
Rock and Roll Almanac
(1995) into a television series and writing a novel called
Motor City
. Mark divides his time among New York City, Los Angeles, and Tucson, Arizona.

Visit his website:
www.markbego.com
.