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I Got Fired for Performing a Beatles Song

I was told not to, but I did it anyway

In the early ’80s, Henry Africa’s was one of the most popular “fern bars” in San Francisco. It even earned a paragraph in Wikipedia’s page about fern bars…a phenomenon of the era that tried to counter the dark, “dive-y” vibe of the typical neighborhood bar with big windows, ferns and Tiffany-type lamps. I’m a piano player, and…