With an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music and a magnetic ear, Paul Shaffer broke into late-night television with "Saturday Night Live" in the mid-’70s and has been laying down our cultural soundtrack ever since.
David Letterman’s longtime musical director, and author of the new memoir “We’ll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives,” refused comment, for legal reasons, on his boss’ current troubles, but he did talk with Eric Estrin about touring topless bars and missile bases, hanging with the Canadian showbiz mafia, and the secret to playing rock ’n roll piano
I graduated from college at the University of Toronto, and I made a deal with my parents that I would take a year to try to get into the music business.