1. Andy Shernoff was born on April 19,1952 and is an American musician, songwriter and record producer.
16 Facts About Andy Shernoff
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Andy Shernoff is a founding member of The Dictators, one of the original New York punk bands, in which he wrote nearly all of the songs, played bass guitar and keyboards, and sang backing vocals and occasional leads.
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Andy Shernoff has been involved with a variety of other musical projects, most notably the heavily Dictators-populated Manitoba's Wild Kingdom and Joey Ramone's first studio album, Don't Worry About Me.
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Andy Shernoff sang "California Sun" in the official Major League Baseball promotional video for the 2010 All-Star Game.
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On March 24,2012, Andy Shernoff played the Reason Rally, the largest secular gathering in American history, on the National Mall in Washington DC.
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Andy Shernoff released his first solo EP Don't Fade Away in October 2012.
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Andy Shernoff grew up in New York City, in the Queens neighborhood of Jackson Heights.
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Andy Shernoff attended elementary school with Johnny Thunders and Flushing High School with Peter Zaremba and Keith Streng of the Fleshtones.
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The publication's contributors included famed rock critic Lester Bangs, who invited Andy Shernoff to write for Creem magazine.
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Andy Shernoff has never explained the reasoning behind this stylistic quirk.
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Andy Shernoff penned the vast majority of the songs, a pattern that would continue throughout the group's career.
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Disillusioned, Andy Shernoff left the Dictators for a short time and was replaced on bass by Mark "The Animal" Mendoza before returning to the band, on keyboards.
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Andy Shernoff was back playing bass in 1978 after Mendoza left the band, and the Dictators recorded their third album with Pearlman and Krugman, Bloodbrothers.
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Andy Shernoff wrote and produced the band's 1990 MCA Records debut,.
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Andy Shernoff has appeared as a guest musician on albums by the Ramones and the Fleshtones, as well as Joey Ramone's solo album.
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Andy Shernoff wrote all the original songs for The Dictators and Manitoba's Wild Kingdom.