            the Rundown on the Backstage Pass
                 Introduction

                Working it Backstage: The Early Years
                    George Thorogood & the Delaware Destroyers
                    The Rascals: Reunion
                    Eric Clapton: Slowhand
                    Bon Jovi: the Homecoming
                    INXS: ’88
                    Pink Floyd: When pigs fly
                    Lynyrd Skynyrd: Freebird
                    Van Halen: All over the world
                    John Cougar Mellencamp: the Meadowlands
                    Depeche Mode: Throughout the years
                    Robert Plant & Cheap Trick: the Same Bill
                More Working it: the Hotel Years
                    Rolling Stones: Rehearsals
                    B. B. King: the Grammys
                    The The: their Hotel Rooms
                    Rod Stewart: Warming up
                    Tupac Shakur: a brief interaction
                    Lennox Lewis: NYC, late nineties
                    The Boss: the Tunnel of Love
                    Barry White: at the Garden
                Anything Can Happen in a NY Minute
                    Ramones
                    Koko Taylor: downtown in ’92
                    Big Audio Dynamite: Five nights straight
                    Shea Stadium: opening day ’91
                    Queen Latifah: her show, Chelsea Studios
                    Scissor Sisters: The making of a music video
                    Alannis Morissette: Tramps bar
                    AC/DC: on the set of Private Parts
                    The Beach Boys: Yankee Stadium
                    The Dandy Warhols: The Blackout of ’03
                    U2: It’s a beautiful day for a bike sprint
                    Sting: in Central Park
                    z100 Jingle Ball of 2007
                Volunteer Working it: the Lifebeat era
                    the MTV beach house
                    Trainspotting premiere
                    Skate Aid: at Chelsea Piers
                    Counter Aid: at HMV Records
                    Urban Aid: at the Garden
                 Still at it
                    Krishna Das: feeling the peace
                    Billy Idol: the Hammerstein
                    The Allman Brothers Band: Roseland
                    Stone Temple Pilots: Jones Beach
                    Jay-Z/Eminem: the new Yankee Stadium
                    Twisted Sister: Point Lookout beach
                acknowledgments