# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/danny-fields
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:03:34.799Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/danny-fields"
name: "Danny Fields"
slug: "danny-fields"
description: "Danny Fields is an American music manager, publicist, journalist, and author. As a music industry executive from the 1960s to the 1980s, he was one of the most influential figures in the history of punk rock. He signed and managed Iggy and the Stooges, signed the MC5 and managed the Ramones, and worked in various roles with Jim Morrison, the Velvet Underground and the Modern Lovers. In 2014 The New York Times said, \"You could make a convincing case that without Danny Fields, punk rock would not have happened.\""
tagline: "American music manager, publicist, journalist and author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Danny_Fields_2017_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1941"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.98
  momentum:             4.970414201183432
  historical:           8.85616
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0276219/"
    handle:    "nm0276219"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B2"
    title: "داني فيلدز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دانى فيلدز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Danny Fields"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Fields"
    title: "Danny Fields"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Fields"
    title: "Danny Fields"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Fields"
    title: "Danny Fields"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Fields"
    title: "Danny Fields"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Danny_Fields"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ca1e2b8c-ce3f-460f-a5cb-dd68e8dd2775"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1164585"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1069723"
    title: "Danny Fields"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump