1970: Allentown Art Festival. Mark was 12 years old in the summer of ‘69 when he had heard the
Woodstock album would be out in summer of 1970. A three record set with all of the groups. So he went around door-to-door in the neighborhood getting deposits for frozen pizzas he would deliver, made
candles, and with the with the money, which Mark doubled, got a booth at the festival to sell his posters, jewelry and candles. And by the way, he got that Woodstock album..
1973: Mark is performing his rock opera “Alienation” at age 17. Later that year, Peter Gabriel
would compliment those horns and try them on.
1973: Mark Live
1976: Concert In The Park. After Mark murdered a watermelon with a butcher knife, a punk came on stage and beat him up. Nobody had
ever seen a punk rocker vefore, short hair, safety pins, shades and aggression, it was surreal.
1981: Scene from Mark’s solo musical theatre piece, The
Elephant Man Who Sold The World. Fusing the music and movie into a play.
1983: Recording in N.Y.C. with Japanese superstar Motoharu Sano. Playing guitar and t.v. set on his
“Visitors” album. It went #1 in Japan and 2 of the songs Mark performed on were included 20 years later on his greatest hits Double Disc.
1983: Recording in N.Y.C. with Japanese superstar Motoharu Sano. Playing guitar and t.v. set on his
“Visitors” album. It went #1 in Japan and 2 of the songs Mark performed on were included 20 years later on his greatest hits Double Disc.
1985: Moto Sano (left), Kent Weber (middle) and Mark Freeland (right), at Jimi Hendrix’s Electric
Ladyland Studios for the recording of Moto Sano’s Christmas Album. Mark was in the video that day as well.
