Paul Nelson (critic)

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Paul Nelson
Born(1936-01-21)January 21, 1936
Warren, Minnesota, U.S.
Diedcirca July 5, 2006(2006-07-05) (aged 70)
Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Occupation
  • Music critic
  • A&R executive
  • magazine editor
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Minnesota
Period1960s–2006

Paul Nelson (January 21, 1936 — circa July 5, 2006) was an A&R executive, magazine editor, and music critic best known for writing for Sing Out!, The Village Voice and Rolling Stone.

Born in

the Sex Pistols and Warren Zevon
.

While employed by the A&R department of

Richard and Linda Thompson
.

As the record reviews editor of Rolling Stone from 1978 to 1983, Nelson researched long features about Eastwood, Zevon and

Public Image Ltd.
were published) and length issues, precipitating his eventual resignation.

Although Nelson found transitory employment as a

classic Hollywood cinema. Throughout much of this period, Nelson was employed as a clerk at Evergreen Video,[1] a now-defunct specialty shop in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan
.

Nelson was found dead in his sublet apartment on the

heart disease was the cause of his death.[2] In a 2011 overview, Charlie Finch of Artnet commented on Nelson's lifestyle choices: "Nelson didn't drink or do drugs: what he did do was eat a hamburger and veal picatta for dinner, always with two Cokes, even for breakfast, while smoking Nat Sherman cigarettes, every day of his adult life."[3]

Nelson was acquainted with the novelist

Continuum Books, with a foreword by Lethem.[5]

Notes

  1. ISBN 9781592403707
    . Retrieved April 5, 2018.
  2. New York Times
    , July 10, 2006 and corrected on July 13.
  3. ^ "Charlie Finch on cultural critic Paul Nelson". artnet Magazine. January 15, 2024. Retrieved January 15, 2024.
  4. Fantagraphics Books
    , March 31, 2011.
  5. ^ "Conversations With Clint: Paul Nelson's Lost Interviews with Clint Eastwood, 1979 - 1983". continuum.com. December 9, 2011. Retrieved October 30, 2012.

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