I did a search on google and I wasn’t able to find a thread about him.
Below I’ve linked the Amsterdam show. His best based on the scarcity of what’s out there.
He was talented and I enjoy this show a lot, also troubled and had a three year window between 1977-1980 before it all fell apart.
I listened to a CBC interview from 1977 when his movie Outrageous (which won him the Silver Bear in Germany) was released and it’s sad how insecure he seems. Drugs seem to have been a part of his life early on, but it became extreme after he became successful outside his native Toronto.
He played Carnegie Hall twice. Once successfully, the second time was a disaster with him spending the evening under the piano, singing songs the band had not rehearsed. His last major show was in Vancouver which was also a shambles.
He went to live in Germany for five years and came back in 1987 to make a sequel to this movie which flopped. He died from a stroke related to HIV Halloween of 1990.
How many of us here remember him? Did anyone here ever meet him or have any interaction with those around them? There’s a man on YouTube who claims to be his biographer, but he has not released a book.