1.10.18 Howard Bloom and Danny Goldberg
will converse on Bloom’s new book
How I Accidentally Started the Sixties.
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Britain’s Channel 4 TV calls Bloom the Einstein, Newton, Darwin and Freud of the 21st century and Gear Magazine says
“Howard Bloom may just be the new Stephen Hawking, only he’s not interested in science alone; he’s interested in the soul.”
Bloom is the author of six books. Timothy Leary says about How I Accidentally Started the Sixties:
This is a monumental, epic, glorious literary achievement. Every page, every paragraph, every sentence sparkles with captivating metaphors, delightful verbal concoctions, alchemical insights, philosophic whimsy, absurd illogicals, scientific comedy routines, relentless, non-stop waves of hilarity. The comparisons to James Joyce are inevitable and undeniable. Finnegans’s Wake wanders through the rock ‘n roll sixties. Wow! Whew! Wild! Wonderful!
Danny Goldberg is the author of In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea, and runs Gold Village Entertainment whose management clients include Steve Earle. He was previously President of Atlantic Records and Mercury Records and before that managed Nirvana and Bonnie Raitt among others.
This will be a once-in-a-lifetime pairing. Bloom and Goldberg have been strange doppelgangers. In 1971, Goldberg edited the rock monthly Circus Magazine. Though Bloom knew nothing about popular music, he became Circus’ editor when Goldberg left. Bloom boosted circulation by 211% and was credited by Rolling Stone’s Chet Flippo with “creating a new magazine genre—the heavy metal magazine.” Meanwhile, Goldberg started a public and artist relations department for Gulf & Western’s fourteen record companies. A few months after he left, Bloom was asked by Gulf & Western to create a new public and artist relations department from scratch. According to one Gulf & Western attorney, Bloom doubled the value of G&W’s music operation in a year.
In 1976, Seymour Stein, head of Sire Records — the man who signed the Ramones and Madonna — said to Bloom, “Schmuck, if you’re so smart, why don’t you have your own company?” Goldberg encouraged Bloom to found a PR firm on the coffee table in his living room. From 1976 to 1988, that music PR organization became the biggest in the business, working with clients like Michael Jackson, Prince, Bob Marley, Bette Midler, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Billy Idol, Joan Jett, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Kiss, Queen, Peter Gabriel, David Byrne, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and Run DMC.
Since then Goldberg has testified before Congress, co-produced and co-directed the political rock documentary No Nukes starring Bruce Springsteen and run Air America.
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And when Bloom was hit in 1988 with an illness that imprisoned him in a bedroom for fifteen years, he went back to his original field, science. Pavel Kurakin of the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Science in Moscow says,
“Bloom has created a new Scientific Paradigm. He explains in vast and compelling terms why we should forget all we know in complicated modern math and should start from the very beginning. …Bloom’s Grand Unified Theory… opens a window into entire systems we don’t yet know and/or see, new…collectivities that live, love, battle, win and lose each day of our gray lives. I never imagined that a new system of thought could produce so much light.”