Sandy Pearlman | |
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| Birth name | Samuel Clarke Pearlman |
| Born | August 5, 1943 Rockaway, Queens, New York |
| Died | July 26, 2016 (aged 72) Novato, California |
| Occupation(s) | Music producer, talent manager, record executive |
| Years active | 1967–2016 |
Samuel Clarke "Sandy" Pearlman[1] (August 5, 1943 – July 26, 2016) was an American music producer, artist manager, music journalist and critic, professor, poet, songwriter, and record company executive. He was best known for founding, writing for, producing, or co-producing many LPs by Blue Öyster Cult, as well as producing notable albums by The Clash, The Dictators, Pavlov's Dog, and Dream Syndicate; he was also the founding Vice President of eMusic.com. He was the Schulich Distinguished Professor Chair at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montreal, and from August 2014 held a Marshall McLuhan Centenary Fellowship at the Coach House Institute (CHI) of the University of Toronto Faculty of Information as part of the CHI's McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology.