17 Facts About Howard Bloom

Howard Bloom was born on June 25,1943 and is an American author.

Howard Bloom was a music publicist in the 1970s and 1980s for singers and bands such as Prince, Billy Joel, and Styx.

Howard Bloom has published a book on Islam, The Muhammad Code, an autobiography, How I Accidentally Started The Sixties, and three books on human evolution and group behavior: The Genius of the Beast, Global Brain, and The Lucifer Principle.

Howard Bloom became interested in science, especially cosmology and microbiology, as early as the age of ten.

Howard Bloom graduated from New York University and, at the age of twenty-five, veered from his scientific studies to work as an editor for a rock magazine.

Howard Bloom would go on to found one of the largest public relations firms in the music industry.

In 1974 Howard Bloom was made the head of public relations of ABC Records.

Howard Bloom was briefly head of Gulf+Western's music publicity department.

Howard Bloom tutored the band Styx in how to appeal to "more staid magazines" such as the Wall Street Journal and People and so make them mainstream.

Howard Bloom was hired by Columbia Records to make Billy Joel "more media friendly".

Howard Bloom has been described in a biography of Billy Joel as "the public relations spinmeister to have on your payroll in the seventies and eighties if you were a musician and your image needed to be authenticated to the masses".

Howard Bloom has written a number of books, including: The Genius of the Beast, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century, and The Lucifer Principle.

Howard Bloom's books discuss ideas ranging from human nature to what makes rock and roll artists successful.

Howard Bloom founded the International Paleopsychology Project, an Internet group "to study the development of the universe from its conception to the present".

Howard Bloom developed chronic fatigue syndrome in 1988, which left him housebound.

Howard Bloom considers himself a non-militant yet "stone-cold atheist" and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Howard Bloom's article has been described as "not unlike some forms of religious anti-Semitism", and together with similar comments in his book The Lucifer Principle, "an example of Orientalist literature".