Rivers Cuomo [SEP] place of birth
-titled Japanese-language album under the name Scott & Rivers.
Early life.
Rivers Cuomo was born in Manhattan to parents of Italian and German-English descent. Accounts differ as to the origin of his name. According to one account, Cuomo's mother Beverly Shoenberger named him Rivers either because he was born between East and Hudson rivers in Manhattan or because she could hear a river outside her hospital window. However, his father, Frank Cuomo, a musician who played drums on the 1971 album "Odyssey
that Rivers wrote entirely on piano. According to Cuomo, Rubin told Tom Petty the same thing and he wrote "It's Good To Be King."
As the band was working on the album, a deal was struck to have "My Best Friend" be included in the film "Shrek 2", but this deal was scrapped when the makers of the film didn't think it fit to the timings of the visuals. The Counting Crows song "Accidentally in Love" took the place of "My Best