![]() It was on the West Coast that he lost his virginity, and soon after, stumbled into rock and roll in its infancy. So in the summer of 1960, a 19-year-old Heller left home. The hardscrabble Midwest reared him good, he believed, stoking the pugnacity that would serve him well later in life.īut an incidental screening of the Sandra Dee schmaltz-fest A Summer Place was enough to convince him that California was where he belonged. He was born and raised in Ohio, the son of a second-generation scrap-metal man who palled around with Jewish mobsters like Moe Dalitz and Shondor “The Bull” Birns. ![]() 26 caliber Mauser a family member had taken off a German soldier in the fields of World War II. At age 8, Jerry Heller was dodging beatings by the Polish kids on the west side of Cleveland.
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