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Bill Adler

American journalist · United States · On the map · Journalists · Born 1951 · age 74

Bill Adler is an American music journalist and critic. Since the late 1960s, he has worked in the music business in a variety of capacities, including as a record store clerk, radio disc jockey, critic, publicist, biographer, record label executive, documentary filmmaker, museum consultant, art gallerist, curator, and...

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Since the late 1960s, he has worked in the music business in a variety of capacities, including as a record store clerk, radio disc jockey, critic, publicist, biographer, record label executive, documentary filmmaker, museum consultant, art gallerist, curator, and archivist. He is known best for his tenure as director of publicity at Def Jam Recordings (1984-1990), the period of his career to which the critic Robert Christgau was referring when he described Adler as a "legendary publicist".

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Journalists
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Born 1951 · age 74

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