He wanted to emulate The King of Pop and Feldman soon became known for his ability to dance like him, relatively speaking, even performing at 12 years old in front of 40,000 people one day at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles. He liked “Weird Al” and his parody songs. He made sketch tapes and had musical interludes. He started hosting “pretend concerts” with friends in his front yard, bringing out pots and pans and wooden sticks for drums. He remembers seeing Buddy Holly, he remembers falling in love with the band KISS at seven years old. “I really connected to that,” Feldman says. Feldman’s grandmother, who helped raise him, also had an old record player (the kind you wound up) and one record that resonated with him: Bill Haley & His Comets, who he knew from the show, Happy Days. He also watched older relatives play piano and his elderly aunt would teach him songs on the instrument. In fact, he says, as a three-year-old, because he couldn’t read then (like all three-year-olds), his mother would prepare him for acting auditions by putting him in a room and telling him to memorize a song “frontwards and backwards.” He learned Beatles songs. He was around rehearsals, musical performances. So, between those examples, music and songs were everywhere. And his sister was a Mousketeer in the Mickey Mouse Club. Acting was a secondary thought.”įeldman’s father, Robert, performed in the band Strawberry Alarm Clock as well as in cover groups in places like amusement parks, including Magic Mountain in California. “I was raised in a musical household,” the 50-year-old Feldman tells American Songwriter. But all of that begins with his very first love: music. For someone who’s lived a tumultuous life with high highs and low lows, Feldman is poised for what’s ahead of him. Lately, he’s released several new singles, shared plans for a new six-disc box set and has announced a 20-plus-stop tour, spanning August through September. And underscoring all that work is Feldman’s reprieved role as a songwriter. He has a mantra: Discover, recover and discard. Now, though, he’s beginning a new chapter. But that doesn’t mean his life was glitzy and glorious all the time-in fact, far from it. And he was famously friends with Michael Jackson. He was a teen idol, gracing the covers of many magazines. He voiced Donatello in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Later, he became a child star with movies like The Lost Boys, The Goonies, and Stand By Me. The well-known celebrity began doing commercials at the age of three, including for McDonald’s. Few performers in the history of Hollywood have experienced careers with the length and breadth of Corey Feldman’s.
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