Story Update: "The Lost Prince of Yacht Rock" Finally Gets His Encore
In 1978 he was music’s next big thing. Then his album bombed, he began a long slide into obscurity, and a bizarre fraud sent him to prison. Dane Donohue's second act has been 47 years in the making.
Narratively readers relished Keith Barry’s epic tale about “The Lost Prince of Yacht Rock” when it came out back in 2021. Two readers in particular. After the story was published, the story’s subject, Dane Donohue, did an interview on the Out of the Main podcast with Tom and John Nixon, two musicians with a fondness for West Coast and yacht rock music. Donohue and the Nixons hit it off and ultimately decided to work together on a new album. Now, L.A. Rainbow, Dane Donohue’s first new album in nearly 50 years, was released on vinyl this week!
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The Lost Prince of Yacht Rock
Picture yourself in 1978, behind the thin plastic steering wheel of your brand-new Chevy Nova, stuck in traffic on the 10 freeway. There’s smog obscuring the L.A. skyline and the smell of exhaust in the air. Over the crackle of the AM radio, the newsreader says something about Iran, a bright-voiced chorus promises that