John Mendelsohn (musician)
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John Mendelsohn | |
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Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | writer, journalist, musician, graphic designer |
John Ned Mendelsohn is an American writer, journalist, musician and graphic designer.
Biography
Mendelsohn, who has sometimes spelled his name as Mendelssohn with two s's,
Mendelsohn began contributing music criticism to the
While continuing to contribute album reviews, Mendelsohn launched a music career in the early 1970s. Together with bass player Ralph William Oswald, with whom he'd played in a succession of ragtag college groups (including recording a demo album with a nascent
In 1984, Mendelsohn's biography of the Kinks, Kinks Kronikles, was published. Between stints with Rolling Stone, Mendelsohn contributed to
In 2002, Mendelsohn relocated to the United Kingdom to reside there with his English second wife Claire, during which he composed and produced his own solo album, Sex With Twinge, and Mistress Chloe's much-praised Like a Moth to Its Flame. Over the course of the next half-decade, he composed and produced albums for Sadie Sings and Do Re Mi Fa (Cough) and published three books (Dominatrix: The Making of Mistress Chloe, Waiting for
Mendelsohn departed the UK in late 2007. He spent 10 months in the Midwest before buying a home in New York's Hudson Valley, where, between November 2008 and November 2009, he composed, performed, and recorded his second solo album, Sorry We're Open, released in February 2010.[7] Now living back in London after two years in Los Angeles, Mendelsohn regularly blogs on his web journal, "For All in Tents and Porpoises", in which he writes his thoughts on various elements of pop culture, personal anecdotes including frank accounts of his lifelong struggles with low self-esteem and depression, and satirical political pieces in which he purports to have embraced conservatism and the policies of Sarah Palin.
References
- ISBN 0688029833.
- ^ "Led Zeppelin". Archived from the original on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
- ^ a b Steven Ward. "Interview with John Mendelsohn". rockcritics.com. Archived from the original on 1 December 2010. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
- ^ Mendelsohn, John (February 1971). "John Mendelsohn, Rock Critic". Phonograph Record. Available at Rock's Backpages (subscription required).
- ^ "Foul Balls and Alpha Males - The Author". Retrieved 17 January 2011.
- ^ "official site". Retrieved 17 January 2011.
- ^ "Reverb Nation". Retrieved 17 January 2011.