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Rock Music Legend Sandy Pearlman On The Passing Of Feminine Culture Power Source, Ellie Greenwich

Howie Klein, Huffington Post, 6 September 2009

ON MY FIRST DAY of college freshman orientation I met the president of the student body, Sandy Pearlman. He had long hair and I figured I could get pot from him. He turned out to be virtually the only non-pot smoker that I ever met at college. But he taught me about the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, the Rolling Stones and The Byrds. He talked me into running for freshman class president and we've been friends ever since.

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