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Insight With Vicki Gonzalez

 

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Award-winning journalist Vicki Gonzalez hosts interviews with community leaders, advocates, experts, artists and more to provide background and understanding on breaking news, big events, politics and culture in the Sacramento region and beyond.

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Remembering Tower Records Founder Russ Solomon

  •  Jen Picard 
Tuesday, March 6, 2018 | Sacramento, CA
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Tower Records founder Russ Solomon at Blue Line Arts in Sacramento.

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Russ Solomon, the founder of what became a worldwide empire, Tower Records, died at home in Sacramento Sunday night while watching the Oscars with his wife and enjoying a glass of whiskey. He was 92 years old.

Insight revisits a 2015 interview with Solomon and artist Tony Natsoulas, who was opening a show that featured some of Solomon's massive art collection.

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