The veteran OC entertainer, who kept the spirit of early rock alive for generations, died at 73.
Veteran Orange County nightclub entertainer Greg Topper died March 12 at age 73 after more than a half century of performing rock oldies.
"No one else plays the ’50s rock ’n’ roll; I love the way Topper does,” veteran English rock-country guitarist Albert Lee, a frequent guest with Topper, said several years ago. Greg Topper was born Aug. 11, 1945, in Los Angeles, the son of an executive for Fox West Coast Theaters. His entrepreneur mother developed the Half Moon Hotel on 400 acres in Montego Bay, Jamaica, where, after divorcing, she moved with Topper and his older brother.“I went into the schoolhouse and looked at the piano in there, and I’ll never forget what it did to me,”. “I looked at that piano and I knew, just by looking at it, that it was right for me.
“My dad, after putting me through college, wouldn’t talk to me for a long time,” he said in 2010. “But then, when I started getting good notices and was making six figures, all of a sudden, he started getting respect for me. When he saw what kind of business I was doing, filling 500-seat rooms every night, then he felt that I wasn’t a failure.”
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