LA Times – Rickie Lee Jones remembers Chuck E. Weiss: ‘He was a Svengali to Tom Waits and everyone who knew him’
Musician and bandleader Chuck E. Weiss died on July 19 at 76. Here, Rickie Lee Jones, who famously name-checked Weiss on her breakthrough 1979 hit “Chuck E.'s in Love,” recalls days and nights spent prowling L.A.'s hipster demimonde with Weiss and his partner-in-crime, Tom Waits....
28 July, 2021