Episode 235: The Trials & Tribulations Of Michael Alago

Former A & R executive Michael Alago who grew up in a Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn in the early 1970s. At a young age, he began sneaking out of his house and going downtown to frequent legendary New York clubs CBGB and Max’s Kansas City. He formed The Dead Boys Fan club as a teenager and soon after became the talent booker at the Ritz nightclub in the East Village. 

At 24, he became the A & R executive that signed Metallica and went on to work with the Misfits, Cyndi Lauper, Nina Simone, and John Lydon. Surviving both substance abuse and AIDS he came out on the other end clean, sober and healthy. Reinventing himself as a photographer and writer he looks into the future with a healthy, sober lifestyle and attitude.