Draft:Jason Mershon

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Jason Mershon
Jason Mershon in 2016
Born
Jay Jeffrey Mershon

February 24, 1951
Chicago, Illinois
Other namesLegs Hunter, JJ Breeze
Years active1969 - present

Jason Mershon is an American entrepreneur and businessman whose career included being a newspaper editor and publisher, nightclub promoter, and producer of beauty pageants and rock and roll concerts in the 1970s and 1980s. He is also known as a singer and songwriter, who wrote the book, music, and lyrics for the award-winning musical comedy, Heaven Rocks, later re-titled Rock and Roll Heaven - The Musical Comedy, which he produced and directed theatrically in the 1990s through the early 2000s.[1][2]

Mershon is the subject of A Baby Boomer’s Last Stand: A True Story of a Novel Life from Truman to Trump, a series of books by author Jon Alexander Young published from 2020 - 2024.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ "Rock N' Roll Heaven". LA Music Awards. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Young, Jon Alexander (2022). A Baby Boomer's Last Stand: The Prologue. Las Vegas, Nevada: Empire Publishing (published July 15, 2022). ISBN 979-8-8403-7405-4.
  4. ^ Young, Jon Alexander (2024). A Baby Boomer's Last Stand - Volume One: The First Stand (2nd ed.). Las Vegas, Nevada: Empire Publishing (published June 5, 2024). ISBN 979-8-6983-5356-0.
  5. ^ Young, Jon Alexander (2021). A Baby Boomer's Last Stand - Volume Two: The Second Stand. Las Vegas, Nevada: Empire Publishing (published March 14, 2021). ISBN 979-8721-65716-0.