While making his new record, Danny Rocco blew out two discs in his spine and lost the use of his right leg. A showman with Freddie Mercury in his heart and Bruce Springsteen in his work ethic, he wasn’t deterred.
“I almost died several times, proverbially and physically,” the New Yorker says. “There’s a fine line between that initial burst of creativity and magic, and then putting in the hours to refine stuff over a long period of time and just being like: ‘Not good enough, not good enough…’ I wrote about fifty songs for this record.”
