Footnotes

I'm fascinated by uber-footnotes in history; either in pictures (ie. who's the woman in the picture they always show kneeling over the body at Kent State?) or otherwise (Raymond Jones walking into the NEMS shop and asking Brian Epstein for the "My Bonnie" single, which made Epstein curious about The Beatles) Who are these people? Has anyone ever interviewed them? That should be a whole book, interviews with these footnote people. - MORE XMASTIME FOOTNOTES HERE

The miraculous story of Money (That's What I Want), the song that launched a music empire: 

The song developed out of a spontaneous recording session at the Hitsville studio A in Detroit.  Authors Jim Cogan and William Clark only identify the guitarist and bass guitarist as "two white kids walking home from high school who heard the music out on the street and wandered in to Hitsville and asked if they could play along." They add "Strong claimed he never saw the two boys who played bass and guitar again".

WHO THE HELL ARE THESE TWO PEOPLE??!?!?!?

I heard this via the astonishingly thorough LET IT ROLL podcast, the first season of which featured the recently-deceased intoxicating-to-listen-to Ed Ward.