Fundraiser for rock legend Sonny Geraci steeped in controversy over missing funds

Fundraiser for rock legend Sonny Geraci steeped in controversy over missing funds

[@jessiem276]

This is sad. He should have been given the money. That guy struct me as being a crook.

[@queenbee3647]

How awful for Sonny and embarrassing for Streetsboro. ☹️ Sonny has alot of fans out here. Hope that swindler got what he deserved! RIP Sonny. 💖

[@rosarioreside3327]

This is absolutely awful I hope they get the money !

[@TheWorld-of7dd]

It's 2022 is it settled ?

[@WolfRun59]

When I saw him in concert, he didn’t sing Life and Breath which bummed out my wife and myself. Was this because he didn’t write the song and wasn’t given permission to perform it anymore? Poor guy didn’t get much money from those big hits Life and Breath and Precious and Few? So sad. Anyone know what the outcome of this story was? Did they ever get the money?

[@WolfRun59]

This was so wrong. I hope the family either received the money they should have gotten or the perpetrator was arrested for fraud.

[@jimmymacker2600]

The week end was too positive to end this way. I hope Sonny is not being affected by this. Praying for the best! I would gladly do it over again!!!

[@raneebrincat5195]

some one are going to hell for sure.

[@alanmurphy8293]

Did the family finally getting the money

[@davidthompson4649]

Thompson was convicted of stealing the money,

[@javelin1010]

I wrote to Sonny to wish him well per the address on his website and have no idea if he even saw it. I tried.

[@mikelevand8272]

Sonny is in a better place now, but let me say..........'Karma's a bitch'. Around 1966'ish, after 'Time Won't Let Me' was a gigantic hit, The Outsiders came to play at Wichita, Kansas at the Cotillion Ballroom. The audience waited and waited for the band to appear. Long story short, turns out the band was in the dressing room waiting for Sonny to arrive. The owner of the ballroom, after booing from the audience, went to the dressing room to ask what the hold up was...............the band said they were waiting for sonny to arrive. The owner told the band that Sonny had been in the owners office half an hour earlier, demanding (against contract) the band's payment up front, instead of the traditional post show agreements. The owner had paid Sonny, and instead of Sonny going to the dressing room, he fled the ballroom, hailed a cab and went to the airport with the proceeds. He was arrested at the airport, the proceeds were given back to the owner of the ballroom, and all was forgotten, especially after the refund to the patrons who sat patiently for a few hours waiting for the concert to start.

[@artjuarez3274]

New shoes and new track suit

[@sammorreale3372]

and a big gut!

[@pgroove163]

paperwork...🕵️

[@Vetriot6971]

Maybe he spent it on his food addiction 😳

[@stevelaconte8802]

Fund raiser for what? Didn't he have a will or was he that broke?

[@jennyq4979]

He had a whole lot of medical bills and was looking at years of rehab if he pulled through. I sure wish that they would update this, even though he has passed now.

[@tod3msn]

A lot of these guys have sung the hit but didn;t write it. Sonny's two hits "Precious and Few" and "Time Won't Let Me" were written by others. This means no songwriting credits and missing out on the big bucks. Then on top of that Sonny would miss publishing credit which is more money. The bottom line is that while Sonny did the impossible and had two big hits because he was not the songwriter or publisher he'd be stuck to touring all the time to earn a living. I read he worked in homne building in Ohio until he resumed touring after many years of not doing so. Sonny was amazing but it seems did not have the vast riches people think rockers possess RIP Sonny.

[@michaelkoszowski3716]

Give them the money shitbird .