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Born in '37, in Plainfield, Plainfield, he worked as a pool-filler and lunch-counter cleaner. After the whiteout of '67, Reagan began to fold universes via a modified hot-dog pushcart this his father aquired in '33 to feed his immigrant family. Seeking his fortunes in Las Vegas, his pushcart had a chance encounter with a one of Liberace's discarded grands in an alleyway behind the MGM Grand. Chorusgirl Eliza Merchand offered to put him up in Wayne Newton's back-up aerodrome, and he began to pound out some un-Jellyrole Morton-like piano pieces. This attracted the attention of janitor (and former Ann Margaret manager) Percy Schelldreme, who set up a gig for him in the Crimean Room of the Frontier Hotel. However, Reagan was hot happy with the color-scheme, and set out to find spiritual enlightenment, dragging his grand piano into the Short Hills of Arizona. There he composed his first great work "The Rainbows Of The Crystal-Eyed Unicorn". Soon after he created a suite of ...
