IN MEMORIAM

Michael Stanley

Midwest music icon, and friend of Goldmine, Michael Stanley passed away on March 5, at the age of 72.

In 1969, while in college, Stanley released his first album as part of the band Silk. After two solo albums featuring “Rosewood Bitters,” “Moving Right Along,” and “Let’s Get the Show on the Road” in the early 1970s, the Michael Stanley Band was formed in the middle of the decade, receiving FM radio airplay and enjoying a live regional hit single with “Nothing’s Gonna Change My Mind,” written by bandmate Jonah Koslen. Koslen told , “In 1973, we were wide-eyed and full of promise,