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VINTAGE NEON: LA 1979 In 1979, singer and long time New Yorker Billy Vera relocated to Los Angeles to write songs for Warner Bros Music. After a decade off the charts, his song, “I Really Got The Feeling” had reached number one in a recording by Dolly Parton. “It felt like an omen, like I was back in show business,” says Vera today. Hooking up with his former bass player, Chuck Fiore, who’d been in town for three years, the two hit upon the idea of forming a band, “to meet girls.” Thus, Billy Vera & the Beaters were born. While in St. Croix in the Virgin Islands, Vera had taken some photographs with a camera borrowed from a well-known fashion photographer who told him he had a natural talent and an unusually good eye for composition that he should develop. With the newcomer’s eye that sees what locals tend to ignore, Vera noticed that there were a lot of great old neon signs in LA, so he recruited his friend Fiore to drive him around at night to shoot pi
