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Danny Fields

Danny Fields

In the '60s, Danny Fields wrote for 16 magazine, Hullabaloo and other titles. As a music industry executive in the '60s, '70s and '80s, he was one of the most influential figures in the history of punk rock. He managed Iggy and the Stooges, as well as the Ramones, as has worked in various roles with Jim Morrison, the MC5, and the Velvet Underground and the Modern Lovers. Fields has been described as "one of the godfathers of punk".

Giovanni Dadomo's 1977 interview with Danny

Danny Fields on the RBP podcast

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James Brown, Kix, Diana Ross, Simon & Garfunkel, UB40: Talking All That Jazz: the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame

Column by Danny Fields, Spin, April 1990

The Dish, The Dirt, The Inside Dope Sussed by DANNY FIELDS ...

Leonard Cohen Interviewed

Interview by Danny Fields, SoHo Weekly News, 5 December 1974

Leonard Cohen sat down for a wide-ranging interview with Danny Fields on November 6, 1974, at the Chelsea Hotel, New York City. They discuss how ...

The Doors

Report by Danny Fields, Hullabaloo, October 1967

It was a different New York they returned to this time, and the underground they remembered seemed almost as remote as the subways in which ...

Herman's Hermits, Peter Noone: Herman's Hermits: After Noone In Hollywood

Interview by Danny Fields, Hullabaloo, March 1967

Can a straight cat from England find happiness in America the beautiful? Tune in to day's heart-warming installment: Alone With The Hermit, By Danny Fields. ...

Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant: Robert Plant

Retrospective and Interview by Danny Fields, Details, July 1988

"Well, don't forget that the reason people dress up and become rock 'n'roll stars is because I think we have something wrong with us anyway. ...

The Mamas and The Papas, The Velvet Underground: Mama Cass: Andy Warhol And the Big Bird — Pop Pope Casts Cass

Report by Danny Fields, Hullabaloo, May 1967

SHE HAD ALWAYS BEEN FASCINATED WITH HIM... AND HE HAD ALWAYS WANTED TO MEET HER ...HULLABALOO SAW THEM TOGETHER, SAW HER POSING, SAW HIM FILMING ...

Melanie: Festivals: Powder Ridge A Ball Anyway

Report by Danny Fields, Circus, October 1970

Let me take you down Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields Nothing is real Nothing to get hung about Strawberry Fields forever Strawberry Fields forever ...

Pete Townshend, The Who: Pete Townshend

Interview by Danny Fields, Datebook, November 1966

THE ELABORATE lunch for Herman's Hermits was just about over, and the hotel ballroom was a dismal vista of plastic décor and messy, empty tables. ...

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