was so focused in my pursuit that it never dawned on me that I wouldn’t make it. You just have to have this ‘knowing’ in your heart that this is what you were meant to do.” Those first few months were


tough. He had a small apartment with “one knife, one fork, one bowl”, and a cheap lawn chair that doubled as a bed. When that proved to be too uncomfortable, he slept on the floor. But he was getting gigs; his face,


THE STRANGERS


and talent, were out there; and there was a buzz starting about this young, good-looking kid from Canada. You can hear the emotion in his


voice when he remembers his first standing ovation in Vegas. “When you don’t have something,


and you’ve been craving it for the longest time, to go to Vegas and to finally play there, and get a standing ovation – that was the greatest moment in my life to that point.” But that was just the beginning of


this fairy tale. After all, this was Las Vegas! He met his idols, Paul Anka


and Rich Little, and earned their respect and ongoing friendship. A great memory


of those early days was meeting Anka is his dressing room at the famed Golden Nugget, and Paul’s gig in the showroom. Ironically, today that venue is called The Gordie Brown Showroom, and Paul’s old dressing room is now his. Still, the photo that greets visitors to Gordie’s dressing room captures that moment he and Paul first met. Now an


established star of the Vegas strip,


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