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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List of articles in the library
Linda Ronstadt: Bitter End, New York NY
Live Review by Danny Goldberg, Billboard, 9 August 1969
Bitter End Entranced By Linda Ronstadt ...
Report by Danny Goldberg, Billboard, 16 August 1969
GOSPEL MUSIC, songs with lyrics derived from the Old and New Testaments, a music with its roots in church choirs, is one of the oldest ...
Live Review by Danny Goldberg, Billboard, 23 August 1969
A Double Triumph For Elyse Weinberg ...
Report by Danny Goldberg, Billboard, 30 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 ...
Live Review by Danny Goldberg, Billboard, 6 September 1969
King of the Blues Courts Fans ...
Live Review by Danny Goldberg, Billboard, 13 September 1969
NEW YORK — The Cafe Au Go Go, relatively idle in recent months, interrupted renovations with a splash of good music Aug. 29-31, displaying the ...
Ravi Shankar: Fillmore East, New York NY
Live Review by Danny Goldberg, Billboard, 20 September 1969
Shankar Honors Ghandi in a Memorable Performance ...
Live Review by Danny Goldberg, Billboard, 27 September 1969
'Watsonia' Dazzles in 'Village' ...
Country Joe & The Fish: Country Joe And The Fish: Here We Are Again (Vanguard)
Review by Danny Goldberg, Fusion, 3 October 1969
COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH are certainly unique in American rock. By the time their first album came out they had really passed their peak ...
Fairport Convention: Fairport Convention (A&M SP 4199)
Review by Danny Goldberg, Fusion, 3 October 1969
THIS RECORD would be worth the price of purchase just for one cut: the group's rendition of an early Dylan song 'I'll Keep It With ...
Lee Michaels: Lee Michaels (A&M)
Review by Danny Goldberg, Fusion, 3 October 1969
IF YOU liked Al Kooper, you'll love Lee Michaels. I hate most of Kooper's stuff but Michaels is beginning to grow on me. ...
Tommy James & The Shondells: Cellophane Symphony (Roulette)
Review by Danny Goldberg, Fusion, 14 November 1969
WE ALL AGREE that Gary Puckett and The Union Cap is pretty awful and we all agree that The Rolling Stones are pretty good. Those ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 – ...
Lee Michaels Is Over The Barrel
Interview by Danny Goldberg, Circus, January 1971
IT WILL COME as no surprise to followers of Lee Michaels that his sound has changed again. On the heels of his most successful album, Barrel, the ...
Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane: 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 ...
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 ...
Alice Cooper: Love Them To Death
Profile and Interview by Danny Goldberg, Circus, June 1971
"WE'RE MERELY the end-product of an affluent society," Alice Cooper is fond of saying. "We enjoy getting on stage and showing the public what their ...
Karen Dalton: In My Own Time (Just Sunshine/Paramount)
Review by Danny Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 22 July 1971
KAREN DALTON is a folk legend whose name is spoken with reverence on MacDougal St., in Woodstock, in Texas, or anyplace else where she has ...
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.' ...
Interview by Danny Goldberg, Creem, December 1971
EDGAR WINTER'S White Trash is probably the best evidence this side of Grand Funk that rock is not dead. An unbelievable bunch of Southerners who ...
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. ...
Review by Danny Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 26 October 1972
KENNETH GAMBLE and Leon Huff are the current grandmasters of R&B production, having delivered not only dozens of hit singles during the last several years ...
Billy Paul: 360 Degrees of Billy Paul (Philadelphia International KZ 31793)
Review by Danny Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 15 March 1973
'ME AND Mrs. Jones', one of the biggest singles of last year, a sophisticated nightclub adultery song, is featured on this album, which is yet ...
Led Zeppelin: Zeppelin Robbery
Memoir by Danny Goldberg, Rock Scene, August 1974
24 HOURS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD OF ROCK AND ROLL ...
New Riders of the Purple Sage: "People Used To Think Of Us As A Toy Band"
Interview by Danny Goldberg, Hit Parader, September 1974
BUDDY CAGE, steel guitar player for the New Riders and Marmaduke the singer were having a disagreement. "Those are a pretty weird bunch of folks," ...
Stevie Wonder: Fulfillingness' First Finale (Motown)
Review by Danny Goldberg, Hit Parader, January 1975
THERE IS more of the 'Sunshine Of My Life' ballad side of Stevie Wonder on this new LP than the rocking 'Living In The City'. ...
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. ...
Memoir by Danny Goldberg, Circus, 13 October 1977
Behind the Make-Up With Their Former Press Agent ...
Book Review by Danny Goldberg, Truthdig, 26 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 ...
Gil Scott-Heron: Growing Up With Gil Scott-Heron: In Loving Memory
Memoir by Danny Goldberg, AlterNet, 11 June 2011
GIL SCOTT-HERON'S death last week at the age of 62 stimulated a wave of appreciation from critics and the jazz and hip hop communities who ...
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