At last, the goal Green Gostard – though his friends called him Krazy Kat – had set himself when he decided to write his stories begins to reveal itself. The third story, which we have had to divide into two parts because of its length, recounts some of the many events that marked the rise to the throne of the finest guitarist of his generation: the ineffable John McLaughlin, whom everyone called Johnny Mac until mid-February 1969. “He was a strange guy,” friends who often crossed paths with him at the London home of Ella Natale and Brian Auger confided to me. For those who may not know, Ella Natale, from Sardinia, and Brian Auger, from London, married very young and remained together until Ella’s death in December 2019. Ella was a capable wife-manager who knew how to keep the business running; Brian remains, to this day, an exuberant and […]
