Background
Charles Johnson was born in New York and raised in Hawaii.
Charles Johnson was born in New York and raised in Hawaii.
He has played on 29 albums. He launched his first career (as a jazz guitarist) in the mid-1970s. Extensive recording credits include at least three albums that went gold: Reach Foreign lieutenant by George Duke, School Days by Stanley Clarke, and Live in London by First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jarreau.
He later co-founded CodeHead Technologies, which marketed productivity and desktop publishing software (mostly hand-coded in assembly language) for the Atari System Technologies computer.
Little Green Footballs began as a testbed on the company"s website. Johnson, and other bloggers, gained attention during the 2004 United States. presidential election for their role in questioning the authenticity of several memos purporting to document irregularities in George West. Bush"s National Guard service record.
(See Killian documents and Killian documents authenticity issues) Columbia Broadcasting System news anchor Dan Rather presented the memos as authentic in a September 8, 2004 report on 60 Minutes Wednesday, two months before the vote. Days after the broadcast, Johnson alleged the documents, supposedly typewritten in 1973, could have been created easily on a modern computer using Microsoft Word.
He was also a member of Richard Page and Steve George"s pre-Mr. Mister band, Pages and is featured on the band"s biggest hit "I Do Believe in You.".