BeatleChick
Aug 01, 2005, 08:44 PM
Very sad news--I used to go to his site quite often, and loved reading his writings about the lads, and other rockers... All the best to his soul as it continues on...
His site:
http://www.theblacklistedjournalist.com/
The obit:
Obituaries in the news
Associated Press
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/nation/12279431.htm
Al Aronowitz
ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) - Al Aronowitz, a pioneer of rock journalism who introduced Bob Dylan to the Beatles, died Monday, his son said. He was 77.
Aronowitz died of cancer, said his son, Joel Roi Aronowitz.
Al Aronowitz became a journalist after studying at Rutgers University in the mid-1950s. In 1959, at the New York Post, he wrote a 12-part series on the "beat" movement.
In reporting the series, he became a friend of such early counterculture luminaries as poet Allen Ginsberg and novelist Jack Kerouac. "He really fell into the whole lifestyle," said Gerry Nicosia, author of the Jack Kerouac biography "Memory Babe."
The pieces have been described as early examples of participatory journalism, a technique perfected by better-known writers such as Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson,
The 1964 summit of the Beatles and Dylan came about as Aronowitz was covering the British band for the Saturday Evening Post. He also claimed that Dylan wrote "Mr. Tambourine Man" in his kitchen.
In his last years, Aronowitz self-published two books, "Bob Dylan and the Beatles" and "Bobby Darin Was a Friend of Mine." He was working on another, "Mick and Miles," about Mick Jagger and Miles Davis, when he
His site:
http://www.theblacklistedjournalist.com/
The obit:
Obituaries in the news
Associated Press
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/nation/12279431.htm
Al Aronowitz
ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) - Al Aronowitz, a pioneer of rock journalism who introduced Bob Dylan to the Beatles, died Monday, his son said. He was 77.
Aronowitz died of cancer, said his son, Joel Roi Aronowitz.
Al Aronowitz became a journalist after studying at Rutgers University in the mid-1950s. In 1959, at the New York Post, he wrote a 12-part series on the "beat" movement.
In reporting the series, he became a friend of such early counterculture luminaries as poet Allen Ginsberg and novelist Jack Kerouac. "He really fell into the whole lifestyle," said Gerry Nicosia, author of the Jack Kerouac biography "Memory Babe."
The pieces have been described as early examples of participatory journalism, a technique perfected by better-known writers such as Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson,
The 1964 summit of the Beatles and Dylan came about as Aronowitz was covering the British band for the Saturday Evening Post. He also claimed that Dylan wrote "Mr. Tambourine Man" in his kitchen.
In his last years, Aronowitz self-published two books, "Bob Dylan and the Beatles" and "Bobby Darin Was a Friend of Mine." He was working on another, "Mick and Miles," about Mick Jagger and Miles Davis, when he