i never went after becoming a performer or a singer or anything of the public eye. it was totally a surprise. reporter: what happened was sudden stardom. when he released mandy in 1974. it became his first gold single. clive davis came to you with a song named mandy. i found the love song in this rock n roll song. because i knew i couldn t do that. it s i tried the rock n roll thing but clive davis came down and heard my rock n roll verse and just like the original and he said, what s that? and i said it s the thing you just gave me. she thought it was terrible. but in the afternoon in order