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Costa with singer John Mayer, whom he covered as a music critic for the local paper—and eventually persuaded to perform at his prom: “He came on, and it was a magical moment.” Photograph courtesy of Robert Costa.for Maroon 5—until his parents encouraged him to take the job. “I thought, ‘If my parents are encouraging me to be a roadie, maybe I’ll think about going to college,’ ” he says.
“In the fall of 2002, I go down to the Liacouras Center at Temple University to cover John Mayer. I’m taking meticulous notes as the opening band is playing. [Their manager] taps me on the shoulder: ‘Would you like to meet them?’ So I go backstage, and I meet and interview Maroon 5. I say, ‘You guys should come play at my high school.’ They’re like, ‘Well, how much are you going to pay?’ I said, ‘Nothing.
“I kept trying to nudge Mayer’s management to have him come [too]. Then the day before my prom in May of 2004, I got a call that Mayer was willing to come, but he needed to keep it super-secret. He came on, and it was a magical moment. He finished his set by saying, ‘Go be amazing people.’ And that’s how I ended my own speech when I spoke to my graduation a few weeks later.
“I used to think there was a line between people in the world who are doing interesting things and those of us who are just regular. When I was in high school, I realized we have the ability, all of us, to kind of make things happen. That inspired how I approached journalism, which is you can interview anybody, you can talk to anybody, if you just approach it in a way that has some integrity and some ingenuity.
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