PAUL REVERE AND THE RAIDERS
Of all the acts that sprang up out of the Pacific Northwest during rock and roll's early years, Paul Revere and the Raiders were the most fun-loving of the bunch, possessing the ability to excite an audience and make them cry out for more. A number of "lucky breaks," as Revere called them, led to more than a decade of strong record sales, big radio hits, persistent touring and the most prominent television presence of just about any music act of the 1960s. This success hinged on two distinct personalities: Harvard, Nebraska-born Paul Revere Dick spent most of his early life in Caldwell, Idaho, about 30 miles east of Boise, while the four-years-younger Mark Lindsay, born in Eugene, Oregon in 1942, moved to the same area and began singing at age 15 with a local ... MORE ››
