IN MEMORIAM

Benny Mardones

roducer Joel Diamond said, “I am deeply saddened that my longtime friend Benny Mardones has died.” In his 2018 interview Joel shared, “In 1969 I was new at Mercury. Benny got off of the bus, came to my office and said ‘I want to sing for you.’ I knew right away that he had potential. I have enjoyed working with him throughout his career. At the end of the 1980s, DJ Scott Shannon had a nightly Where Are They Now? radio show on KZZP. Even though ‘Into the Night’ reached No. 11 in 1980, a lot of people still hadn’t heard it, maybe these were younger listeners who missed it at the beginning