Celebrity Jukebox #90: Stacy Keach

I've long been a fan of hard-boiled private eyes. Even at a young age, I was into Bogart and Chandler, Sam Spade and Phillip Marlowe. It's an interest I shared with my Dad, and though I was only in my early teens when Stacy Keach appeared on TV as Mike Hammer: Private Eye, I remember it as being a show that both I and my Dad enjoyed.

In recent years, I've been reading a lot more noir and procedural writers, but when I tried a bit of Mickey Spillane, Hammer's creator left me rather cold. He's not a patch on Chandler or Hammett, or more modern writers like Lawrence Block, Joseph Wambaugh or even Ed McBain. The TV show was better... but maybe that's only in my memory.

Anyway, I had a great affection for Stacy Keach, who signed out earlier this week to go and pound gumshoe leather on another plain. 

Lost Dogs were a 90s band described as a "Christian rock version of the Travelling Wilburys". Let's not hold that against them, because they've just saved Stacy Keech a place on the jukebox...

Is that Stacy Keach passed out on the beach?

And if that wasn't enough, Stacy was also known to lend a hand to Fascinating Aïda...

G-spots are a joy

G-spots are a G

G-spot manipulation should go hand in hand

With a nice fantasy about Tom Cruise

Or even Stacy Keach

And for completeness' sake, I'll throw these two in...

Cosmonauts Hail Satan - Stacy Keach

Gozu - Stacy Keach

In the end, this is the best tribute I can offer today. Harlem Nocturne, by Earle Hagen, with Bud Shank on sax.