Danny Goldberg
Danny Goldberg began his career in 1969 as a music journalist having written for Rolling Stone, Circus, Crawdaddy, Record World, Billboard and The Village Voice. Later he wrote about culture for The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and Tikkun.
From 1974-1976 Danny was Vice-President of Led Zeppelin's Swan Song Records, and in the early nineteen eighties he co-owned Modern Records, which released Stevie Nicks' solo albums.
From 1983-1992, Danny was the founder and President of Gold Mountain Entertainment, a personal management firm whose clients included Nirvana, Hole, Sonic Youth, Bonnie Raitt, and The Allman Brothers.
Subsequently, Danny became Chairman and CEO of the Mercury Records Group, Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Records and President of Atlantic Records.
Danny formed the indie label Artemis Records in 1999, which and ran until 2005. Artemis releases included Warren Zevon's Grammy winning The Wind, Steve Earle’s Grammy winner The Revolution Starts Now, and the Baha Men’s Who Let The Dogs Out.
Danny formed Gold Village Entertainment, of which he is President, in July, 2006. The company manages the careers of The Cranberries, The Hives, Peaches, Steve Earle, Tom Morello, STARS, Dolores O’Riordan, Allison Moorer, Ben Lee, Old 97’s, David Broza, Rhett Miler, A Camp , The Bodeans, and Care Bears on Fire, and co-manages School of Seven Bells and Street Sweeper Social Club .
In 1980, Danny co-produced and co-directed the rock documentary feature, No Nukes, starring Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, and Jackson Browne. In 2004 he was the Executive Producer of the documentary about Steve Earle, Just An American Boy. He was the Executive Producer of the soundtrack from the TV series Miami Vice and was Music Supervisor on numerous feature films including Dirty Dancing.
Danny is author of the book Bumping Into Geniuses, (Gotham Books). He is also author of the 2004 book How The Left Lost Teen Spirit (Akashic) and he co-edited the 2002 anthology It’s A Free Country.
He is on the Board of the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, the NYCLU, The Nation Institute and Americans for Peace Now. He is the Chair of the Board of the American Symphony Orchestra.
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Profile by Danny Goldberg, Circus, January 1971
ODDLY ENOUGH, the first question that come to mind writing about Grand Funk Railroad is, why don't people like them? This is followed quickly – ...
Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna: Hot Tuna
Report and Interview by Danny Goldberg, Circus, April 1971
"THE JEFFERSON Airplane" Jerry Garcia has said, "are a bunch of crazy madmen. Together, they have their own unique chemistry which is like a very ...
Profile by Danny Goldberg, Circus, March 1970
JOHNNY CASH the Misfit: Drug induced and being busted for possession of benzedrine at the Mexican border happened long after he had made a name ...
Doug Kershaw: Crazy Cajun Fiddler
Profile and Interview by Danny Goldberg, Circus, April 1970
DOUG KERSHAW, before his current tour was primarily known as "the guy who was on the Johnny Cash Show the same night that Dylan was ...
Led Zeppelin: Under The Hood – A Backstage Chronicle Of The Historic 1975 Tour
Report by Danny Goldberg, Circus, May 1975
THERE WAS an historic purple aura in the clouds that hung over the audience at Madison Square that evening in February. ...
Van Morrison: Egotistical and Brilliant
Profile by Danny Goldberg, Circus, June 1970
VAN MORRISON has finally begun to get his due. Finally is a pretty strange word to use with someone who is not yet twenty-five, but ...
Procol Harum: The Problematic Career of Procol Harum
Profile and Interview by Danny Goldberg, Circus, August 1971
'Most groups start at the bottom and work their way up,' says Keith Reid. 'But we started right in at the top.' ...
Savoy Brown: Kim Simmonds Makes Savoy Brown A New Group
Interview by Danny Goldberg, Circus, April 1972
SAVOY BROWN is an oddity in the rock pantheon. Never really disappearing, yet never really together they can be compared most easily to John Mayall. ...
Edgar Winter's White Trash: Edgar Winter's White Trash
Review by Danny Goldberg, Circus, May 1971
THIS IS MY pick for the greatest album of the year; it certainly is the most impressive surprise masterpiece to hit the rock scene in ...
Youngbloods, The: The Youngbloods: Youngbloods Leave Live
Report and Interview by Danny Goldberg, Circus, June 1970
THE YOUNGBLOODS have split from RCA, leaving behind a live album, Ride the Wind, which fulfills their contractual obligations to RCA and have begun their ...
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Book Review by Danny Goldberg, Truthdig, June 2009
STEVE KNOPPER'S Appetite for Self-Destruction is an entertaining, well-written attempt to chronicle the economic decline of record companies, but his thesis echoes conventional wisdom that ...
Report by Danny Goldberg, Billboard, August 1969
BETHEL, N.Y. – About 400,000 rock fans gave peace a chance Aug. 15-18, and it worked. For them and the overwhelmed residents of this Catskills ...
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