Songwriter Andrew Gold has died

Too young.

June 6, 2011 at 3:07PM

"Lonely Boy" was the most successful solo song, IIRC - a tune about a pampered kid who ran away from home because his parents had another kid, it seems. The airwaves were full of that stuff back then - piano-driven sensitive-troubadour rock. In this case, the guitar solo came from Waddy Wachtel, one of the best studio musicians of the era.

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