Rickie Lee Jones’ 1979 song “Chuck E’s in Love” was singing about Chuck E. Weiss, the same person Tom Waits name-checks in several songs including “Jitterbug Boy” & “Wish I Was In New Orleans”. All three lived at L.A.’s Tropicana Motel in the early 1970s.

Proto-punk band The Stooges’ guitarist James Williamson left the music business to design microchips at AMD, and was a Vice President of technical standards at Sony.

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