Joey Gallo

Born in Red Hook, Brooklyn, in the year of who knows when, opened up his eyes to the tune of an accordion.

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Joey Gallo was a New York (Brooklyn) Mobster who was a fairly interesting character. He was killed at Umberto's Clam house while eating dinner with his family. He was known as Crazy Joe. The rest of the mob didn't like him because he didn't follow rules and also because he included blacks in his gang.
He was not a typical mobster, he had an awareness of things outside the mob such as philosophy art and literature and wasn't a bad painter either. Still, he was a vicious, crazy lunatic and not the hero Bob Dylan paints him to be, though he was worshipped by the people in his Brooklyn neighborhood. For more info, find a copy of "Joey" by Donald Goddard available at one time from Dell Paperbacks.
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Peter Stone Brown

Singer-songwriter, freelance writer, music editor for a Philadelphia alternative weekly, onetime WXPN DJ, huge Dylan fan, writer of Tell Tale Signs notes and brother of Tony Brown (Blood on the Tracks, Deliverance, Eric Andersen)