Burning questions answered (Image is a graphic consisting of album covers, images via Charlie Grappone & video stills)

My Substack — most of the posts are free or you can volunteer a small fee — is my labor of love, and my latest has more love and labor than most!

I spoke at length with Charlie Grappone, who with his wife Debbie owned and operated NYC's HiNRG music store Vinylmania in Greenwich VIllage from the late '70s until 2007.

So many issues came up — think about how much music, NYC, the gay scene and business in general have changed in the past 40+ years.

Plus, there is a juicy Madonna element, with Charlie describing the unsuccessful (!) first-ever in-store that she did, way back in 1983.

Please check out the heavily illustrated (with music, too), nostalgic post.