Joe Jackson reassuring a ”tentative” Richard Harris during a 2001 phone call.

"This man seems to have a bottomless well of things he wants to tell you," said one of my editors, Madeleine Keane, while reading the last interview I did with Richard in 2001. When I told him that, he said, "tell her she's right!" It's a great quote. But it's not in my latest book, Richard Harris: Raising Hell and Reaching for Heaven. Why is it not? Becuase, as I say in the introduction to this podcast, I didn't discover the long-lost tape until after I finished the book. I also say that hearing the tape for the first time in 2023 saddens me because it reminds me that Harris and I were friends and that I still miss the man.