Samuel Clarke "Sandy" Pearlman was an American music producer, artist manager, music journalist and critic, professor, poet, songwriter, and record company executive.
20 Facts About Sandy Pearlman
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Sandy Pearlman was best known for founding, writing for, producing, or co-producing many LPs by Blue Oyster Cult, as well as producing notable albums by The Clash, The Dictators, Pavlov's Dog, and Dream Syndicate; he was the founding Vice President of eMusic.
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Sandy Pearlman 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 of the University of Toronto Faculty of Information as part of the CHI's McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology.
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Sandy Pearlman received a Bachelor of Arts from Stony Brook University in 1966, where he had been student president.
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Sandy Pearlman was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in the History of Ideas, and completed graduate work at Brandeis University.
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Sandy Pearlman was a New School Fellow in sociology and anthropology.
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In 1967, Sandy Pearlman hand-picked musicians for a rock band to perform the lyrics that he was writing, based on his Imaginos poems.
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Sandy Pearlman dubbed the band "Soft White Underbelly" and later changed their name to "Blue Oyster Cult".
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Sandy Pearlman managed the band from 1967 to 1995, and produced or co-produced 7 of their studio albums, and 4 of their live albums.
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Significantly, Sandy Pearlman was co-producer, with David Lucas and Murray Krugman, of BOC's " The Reaper" in 1976.
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Sandy Pearlman was considered an important figure in the development of both alternative and commercial American rock music, and for his intervention in British punk.
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Sandy Pearlman was drafted by record company CBS to produce Give 'Em Enough Rope, The Clash's second album, which gave the band their largest audience to date, and produced many of the tracks that were compiled in "Black Market Clash".
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Sandy Pearlman worked as a full-time artist manager, managing the careers of Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, Romeo Void, The Dictators, Shakin' Street, Aldo Nova and others.
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In 1983, Sandy Pearlman leased Studio C in San Francisco's The Automatt Studios from studio owner David Rubinson and dubbed it Time Enough World Enough Studios.
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Sandy Pearlman used it for his own projects, including those on his short-lived MCA-distributed label Popular Metaphysics, and he sub-leased it to other producers and artists.
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Sandy Pearlman served as vice-president of media development for MoodLogic.
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In 2009, Sandy Pearlman was appointed as an at-large member of the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress.
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Sandy Pearlman was the Schulich Distinguished Chair of music at McGill University in Montreal, specializing in the programs in music theory, sound recording and music technology; he later served as Centenary Fellow at the McLuhan Center for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto, where he co-taught a course on Digital Media Distribution.
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Sandy Pearlman was the recipient of 17 gold and platinum records.
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Sandy Pearlman died on July 26,2016, in Novato, California, from pneumonia due to stroke-related complications.