At the height of disco in the late 1970s, Larry LaFreniere and some friends had a band playing ’50s songs in Lubbock.
They needed a drummer and he found one from a pilot training class at then-Reese Air Force Base – Reza Pahlavi, then Iran’s crown prince and son of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was soon to be overthrown by the Islamic revolution.
That drummer is the same man who recently on news show “60 Minutes” was willing to play a role in a transitional government if the Islamic regime in his native country loses power…