David Baerwald

The Marquee, New York, NY

Baerwald performed this show with the wrist of his strumming hand in a cast.

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I was working occasionally at his label, A&M, at the time (from where I got the tickets), so I sidled up to one of the label's publicists and asked what happened to his wrist. "I know," she shouted back at me over the music, "he won't tell us." 

 

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