We chat with ’80s icon Dale Bozzio of the Missing Persons, who has just released “Life Is So Strange – Missing Persons, Frank Zappa, Prince & Beyond.”
The association with Zappa, of course, led directly to starting Missing Persons with Terry Bozzio and Warren Cuccurullo.With Terry and Warren, I was in paradise musically. There is just no way around it. I don’t even know how lucky I could be to have that happen in my life — Frank saying one day, “You three should put a band together and call yourselves the Cute Persons.” We laughed and said, “No, Frank, we’re not cute. We’re radical.
I was dating Henry. We were so cool together. And all of a sudden I disappeared — and he never even cared to find out where I went or what happened to me. I fell out a window and totally forgot about everybody.Prince was important enough to you that he’s in the book’s title. What was it like dating Prince?It was a big secret. He was secretive about everything he did. And who knows what else he did that we don’t even know about? He was the master of disguise. He was a genius.
I don’t want anyone to misjudge him. I know the world loves him. And it’s important to keep it that way.That’s how this happened. When he invited me to his house, he played an 8-track for me for eight hours of Missing Persons music. He was originally a drummer, so he loved Terry Bozzio. And he knew my timing was precise. He could tell immediately.He asked me to marry him and I said no, I just couldn’t do it. I was taking care of Dale. I was a young girl, looking for fame and fortune.
Well, I’m an Italian. I do that. I love to cook and clean and take care of things. So I would have been making sure that things were right and clean — and yes, pasta!
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