Jerry Granelli Jazz drummer

“I knew — I knew! — that if I didn’t go back in I’d never get there.”

From This is True for 25 July 2021

Peter Zinovieff Musician

“I personally have had a computer longer than anyone in the world — brilliant!”

From This is True for 28 June 2021

Graeme Ferguson Filmmaker

A cinematographer, Ferguson was so obsessed with image quality that inventing IMAX was the only way to satisfy him.

From This is True for 9 May 2021

Dale Baer Animator

Born in Denver, Colo., at 8 years old Baer saw Disney’s animated Peter Pan, and vowed that someday, he’d work for Disney. He attended the Chouinard Art Institute (which Roy and Walt Disney helped merge with the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music to establish the California Institute of the Arts, or “CalArts”), and in 1970 took … Read more

From This is True for 17 January 2021

Baron Wolman Photographer

Wenner convinced him to work for the magazine for free. Wolman had one condition….

From This is True for 8 November 2020

Viola Smith Jazz Drummer

Viola was billed as the “fastest girl drummer in the world.”

From This is True for 26 October 2020