Tuesday, January 18, 2011
The star-launcher
Don Kirshner, Rock Producer and Promoter, Dies at 76
By Ben Sisario, New York Times - Arts Beat, January 18, 2011
Don Kirshner, who guided the course of Brill Building and bubblegum pop in the 1950s and ’60s as a music publisher and promoter, and later served as an Ed Sullivan for 1970s artists like Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Kiss and the Ramones with his weekly program “Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert” on television, died on Monday in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 76. The cause was heart failure. ...
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