Artie Shaw left home at age 15 to play in a band.  He was an extraordinary musical talent.

He was married 8 times - most well known were the movie stars Lana Turner and Ave Gardner (whose husbands also included Micky Rooney and Frank Sinatra).  Shaw was earning an incredible $60,000 weekly in the pre WWII period - he joined the Navy early in the war. 

He appeared at Fern Brook on September 7, 1941, shortly be he enlisted in the Navy.  He abruptly quit the music business in 1954 and survived to age 94 when he died in December 2004. next