Dorian Passante

Originally released in 1977 but apparently recorded at least a couple years before, the “Dorian” LP was supposed to launch Dorian (Kenneth Dorian Passante, 1948-1994) as a glam rock artist. The name Dorian Zero (with different variations such as Dorian & Zero, Dorian Zero Revue and so on) was his band name, but seems to also stick to his own persona. The album and a single taken from it were also documented by John Holmstrom in a memorable – and disastrous – inteview on Punk Magazine #14 (1978). Omitting to credit the other musicians involved in the making of the LP – including guitarist Jeff Beck on “Destination Nowhere” and “Inside Looking Out” – Dorian declared on the original album cover “I have no one to thank for this album but myself”. Before recording the album, Dorian had been on an elusive 7" single released in 1969 by B.T. Puppy Records, the record label founded by The Tokens, with a track written by Brute Force (2) (Stephen Friedland). Other tracks were only fixed on acetates and remained unreleased. Some are entirely lost. In 2022, a previously unreleased reggae track from 1975, "In Transit to Bermuda", recorded at Electric Lady Studios by Eddie Kramer, was included in Episode 3 of Stranger Things 4 (Vol.1) and in the Stranger Things Official Playlist.