Bob Spitz
Bob Spitz, a veteran of the music industry, has parlayed his experience and interest in music into his writing. He has authored nonfiction books on topics ranging from the workings of the industry in The Making of Superstars: Artists and Executives of the Rock Music Business, to the famous Woodstock concert in Barefoot in Babylon: The Creation of the Woodstock Music Festival, 1969. Spitz's biography of Bob Dylan, Dylan: A Biography, which was published in 1989, continues to be viewed as relevant and, as of 2005, remains in print. The Beatles: The Biography, however, is Spitz's most widely reviewed book; it has been called "the definitive Beatles biography" by numerous critics.
12 articles
List of articles in the library
Sting: "I think I am the edge": Sting faces 50 and the millennium
Interview by Bob Spitz, Delta Sky, December 1999
FROM THE MOMENT the Police made their debut in 1978, it was clear that Sting wasn't about to go away. It wasn't so much that ...
Foreigner: Foreigner (Atlantic SD 18215)
Review by Bob Spitz, Crawdaddy!, June 1977
FOREIGNER IS a Boston/Cream pie a la mode whose futile search for the perfect hard-rock formula is diverted long enough for them to squeeze out ...
Felix Cavaliere, Rick Derringer, Foreigner, Nils Lofgren, Leslie West: The Rock'n'Roll Fantasy Camp
Report and Interview by Bob Spitz, Delta Sky, December 1997
IT WASN'T UNTIL Friday night, when Frank Gonzales belted out a monster version of 'Double Vision', that everyone realized the significance-the true beauty of the ...
Review by Bob Spitz, Crawdaddy!, March 1987
BETTE'S OFF, NO CISSY STRUT ...
Barry Manilow: Trying To Get the Feeling
Interview by Bob Spitz, Crawdaddy!, September 1977
IT'S ELEVEN-below-zero on the Avenue, pitch black and hailing glassy bullets the size of golf balls. Empty buses on the suicide run choke back jetstreams ...
Review by Bob Spitz, Crawdaddy!, November 1977
DON'T CRY DADDY ...
Review by Bob Spitz, Crawdaddy!, July 1977
RIDDLE OF THE SOUTHSIDE ...
The Beatles, Paul McCartney: He May Be Sir Paul, But He's Still a Beatle
Interview by Bob Spitz, The New York Times, 25 May 1997
ON A RECENT afternoon in the kitchen of a quaint 17th-century mill house overlooking the English Channel, there was a sense of eventfulness. The room ...
Boz Scaggs: Down Two Then Left (Columbia JC 34729)
Review by Bob Spitz, Crawdaddy!, January 1978
MO' DANCING & SLICK DEBRIS ...
The Modern Lovers, Jonathan Richman: Ultra-Modern Lovers: Sophomoric Seduction In The Big, Red Apple
Report and Interview by Bob Spitz, Crawdaddy!, January 1977
NEW YORK — It had been pouring for most of two days, but the rain began to let up about four in the afternoon. As ...
Report by Bob Spitz, Crawdaddy!, March 1977
NEW YORK — "Disc jockeys' mortgages were being paid, women were being provided; it was a slimy era." ...
Jefferson Starship: Earth (Grunt BXL1-2515)
Review by Bob Spitz, Crawdaddy!, May 1978
STARSHIP FINDS PEACE ON EARTH ...
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