Pristine Condition, Paul Reubens wearing an outfit he bought off a valet at the Bel Age hotel where we were the night before the party, me and songwriter Dean Pitchford.
Nancy Ferguson, me and Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo wearing one of the 400 'Nyet Allee!' babushkas I handpainted and a matching "spudnik" pendant that I made out of a red potato
Drilling 400 Russian potatoes to make souvenir Spudnik pendants for guests at my Borscht Belt Birthday party.
Painting 400 'Nyet Allee!' souvenir burlap babushkas in my backyard for my Borscht Belt Birthday party.
Borscht Belt Birthday, 1986 Me and Angelyne.
Tim Hauser from Manhattan Transfer. music publisher Lance Freed, and me in between brilliantly prolific songwriters Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil.
In 1985, I was named one of the most dangerous subversives living in US by the Russian newspaper, Pravada, which singled me out with Prince as one fo the two most dangerous people in Rock 'n Roll. The article, which referred to me throughout as 'Mr. Willis', branded me a "happy gravedigger" and "priest of nuclear art" based on my writing of "Neutron Dance", which they mistranslated as "Neutron Bomb". I was scheduled to go to Russia with ten other American songwriters representing BMI to collaborate with Russian songwriters but it was requested I drop out to "avoid any problems". Although my lawyer advised me to "stay under the radar" I celebrated my subversiveness by throwing myself a Borscht Belt Birthday Party.
