On The Cover

On the covers. Yeah that's right Barry Manilow made the cover of not one but three magazine. First he was voted GQ man of the year for 2014. So he was on GQ's December issue. Second he was on Esquire magazine and third he was on   Entertainment Weekly magazine. Both Entertainment Weekly and Esquire were going to be January issues.  Esquire named Barry Manilow one of their thirty most stylish  men in the world. Entertainment Weekly chose to do an all Barry Manilow issue. The issue would have articles on Barry and his friends Lorna Luft,  Bruce Sussman his Broadway songwriting partner and David Foster head of Verve his record label. Barry was letting Entertainment Weekly into his Brooklyn Heights home for a look around.  Plus they were doing a Q&A with him. Batty had already been on the cover of Rolling Stone magazines  November issue. He also was going to be on the February cover of Billboard magazine. The other thing Barry just learned was his album New York State Of Mind was entering the Hot 200 album and Jazz charts at number one. This would make Barry's eighth number one album on both the Hot 200 album and Jazz charts.  Barry's eight albums were 2:00 Am Paradise Café, Swing Street, Showstoppers, Manilow Live In Chicago,  Manilow Sings Sinatra Here at The Mayflower, Night Songs and New York State Of Mind. Barry was also recording and videoing one of his Brooklyn Blues Tour concerts for a duel disc. DVD and CD combo which would be sold during a PBS pledge break next fall. At that time  the  concert would be shown on PBS as a two hour concert. Barry was even going to be on PBS to talk about this concert and the DVD The Making of the New York State Of Mind album.. So Barry sure was one busy beaver.