Fri 1/23 @ 7:30PM

David Spero first became known to the wider northeast Ohio music community as one of the founding air personalities at WMMS, just as it was beginning to influence the area’s entire music scene. Before that, as a teenager he’d been an errand boy for his father Herman Spero, producer of the syndicated Cleveland-based music program The Upbeat Show, gaining a valuable inside education.

Spero left WMMS to manage Michael Stanley, and helping him form the Michael Stanley Band which he managed for several years before turning management over to Belkin Productions. Later on he spent more than a decade in the film industry before returning to music management at the request of his friend Joe Walsh. Since then he’s worked as manager or tour manager with an array of significant artists, such as Harry Nilsson, Cat Stevens and Bad Company, while still based here in Northeast Ohio. (He also served for a while as education and programming director at the Rock Hall.) His released a memoir called A Life in the Wings in 2022.

His colorful, wide-ranging career has now been captured on film by filmmaker Pat Donovan called The Heart of Rock and Roll: A Cleveland Rocks Story. The Music Box Supper Club is hosting a movie night and discussion where the film will be screened and Spero and Donovan will talk about it afterwards.

Admission is free, but please make a reservation. Doors open at 6pm for dinner; film and discussion start at 7:30pm.