HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS " OF TURTLES, LIOTTA AND PRIZEFIGHTS "- RICH BUCKLAND AND BILL MESNIK CELEBRATE THE LIFE OF MARK VOLMAN, THE INTENSITY OF RAY LIOTTA AND PREVIEW THE HISTORIC CANELO / CRAWFORD SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT CONTEST - DIG IT!!!

The story of one of the sunniest and funniest personalities to emerge in the world of rock, the Turtles‘ Mark Volman, is being told in a book whose title is a play on the name of his biggest hit, “Happy Together”. However, unlike many memoirs, Volman’s own words comprise less than five percent of the text. Instead, this is a third-person oral history, much like Legs McNeil’s wonderful punk rock history opus from 2016, Please Kill Me. Mark Volman’s Happy Forever is told almost entirely by 100 of his famous collaborators, rock scenesters, friends, and family, with the occasional sidebar from Mark himself. This six-decade-long narrative includes his rise to fame with the Turtles alongside his singing partner Howard Kaylan, their brilliant stint with Frank Zappa’s the Mothers of Invention, their solo career as Flo & Eddie, and their role as backup singers on mega-hits by Marc Bolan, Bruce Springsteen, Alice Cooper, the Ramones, Steely Dan and more.