Peter Knobler

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Peter Knobler
Born1946 (age 78–79)
U.S.
OccupationWriter
Historian
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMiddlebury College
Columbia University School of the Arts
GenreNon-fiction
SubjectBiography

Peter Knobler (born 1946) is an American writer living in New York City. He has collaborated on fifteen books, ten of them best sellers

Crawdaddy magazine from 1972 to 1979.[2] Knobler is the journalist who discovered Bruce Springsteen in the rock press and was his earliest champion.[3]

Writing

Knobler specializes in collaboration, having written best-selling books with

Daniel Petrocelli, Tommy Hilfiger, and Sumner Redstone, among others.[4] He worked with David Dinkins on the former New York City mayor's memoirs.[5] His second book with Bill Bratton, The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America, published by Penguin Press, was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.[6][7]

His magazine work has appeared in The Daily Beast, Sports Illustrated, More, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times sports and Guest Essay pages,[8][9][10] and been collected in The Bob Dylan Companion,[11] Racing in the Streets: The Bruce Springsteen Reader[12] and The Subway Series Reader.[13]

His piece "Dancing in the Dark," about Alzheimer's disease, klezmer music, and his mother, was published by the

Fortnightly Review, as was his first piece of published fiction, the short story "The Right Side of the Diamond".[16]

Songwriting

Knobler has co-written songs with

Step on Out album was a Hillman-Knobler composition.[19]

Screenwriting

Knobler received a 2008-2009

Sports Emmy Award nomination for his work on the program Baseball's Golden Age.[20] He has written championship films for the National Basketball Association and the United States Tennis Association.[21][22]

Crawdaddy

Knobler first wrote for Crawdaddy! under its original editor

The Firesign Theater, and sometimes Paul Williams himself.[2] While on the run from the law, Abbie Hoffman was Crawdaddy's travel editor.[2]

Crawdaddy was a generational magazine known for its profiles particularly of musicians, but also actors, athletes and other celebrities prominent in 1970s popular culture. Knobler's profiles included

Souther Hillman Furay Band, and Stephen Stills. Under Knobler, Crawdaddy's editors often assigned artists to write about other artists; Al Kooper profiled Steve Martin, Martin Mull interviewed Woody Allen, William S. Burroughs talked magic and mysticism with Jimmy Page.[25][26]

The record reviews section, driven by editors John Swenson and Noe Goldwasser, had an iconoclastic reputation – well-known and respected by the music industry for its fierce independence. Crawdaddy's features section regularly covered scenes from New Orleans funk to Austin, Texas' cosmic cowboys to Scientology, est and disco. Its renowned sense of humor produced the Crawdoodah Gazette, The Whole Earth Conspiracy Catalogue and "The Assassination Please Almanac".

Knobler and Greg Mitchell collected a wide range of the magazine's articles in the book Very Seventies: A Cultural History of the 1970s from the pages of Crawdaddy, published in 1995.[2]

Bruce Springsteen

In December 1972, after seeing the performer play at Sing Sing prison and Kenny's Castaways, Knobler wrote the first interview and profile of Bruce Springsteen, with special assistance from Greg Mitchell. "He sings with a freshness and urgency I haven't heard since I was rocked by 'Like a Rolling Stone,'" Knobler wrote. Knobler's Crawdaddy discovered Springsteen in the rock press and was his earliest champion.[24] Springsteen and the E Street Band acknowledged by giving a private performance at the Crawdaddy 10th Anniversary Party in New York City in June 1976.[27] Knobler profiled Springsteen in Crawdaddy in 1973, 1975, and 1978.

Biography

Knobler was born and raised in New York City. He took part in the 1965

Selma to Montgomery march with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.[28] Knobler graduated in 1968 with a degree in English literature from Middlebury College. He sang bass in that school's a cappella group, the Dissipated Eight. Knobler has written for the college's alumni magazine.[29] He attended the Columbia University
School of the Arts, Creative Writing Division.

He briefly managed the career of saxophonist and E Street Band member Clarence Clemons in the 1980s.[30]

Knobler is the father of Dan Knobler, Grammy-nominated producer, songwriter and guitarist in the bands Captain Coconut[31] and Flearoy[32] and co-founder of the audio/visual production company and creative collective Mason Jar Music.[33] Dan Knobler's studio, Goosehead Palace, is located in Nashville, TN.[34]

Books

Podcast

See also

References

  1. ^ Alfano, Peter. "listings". New York Times. Retrieved 2012-10-23.
  2. ^ a b c d Very Seventies.
  3. ^ https://www.monmouth.edu/news/glory-days-a-bruce-springsteen-symposium/
  4. ^ Alfano, Peter. "listings, 1983-2008". New York Times. Retrieved 2012-10-23.
  5. ^ A Mayor's Life: Governing New York's Gorgeous Mosaic Archived 2013-10-17 at the Wayback Machine by David Dinkins with Peter Knobler, PublicAffairs Books, 2013
  6. ^ [1] The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America by Bill Bratton and Peter Knobler
  7. ^ [2] "New Books We Recommend This Week" July 11, 2021
  8. ^ Knobler, Peter (1978-05-27). ""Is It More Difficult to Be a Man Today?" NY Times Op Ed Page, May 27, 1978". Select.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2012-10-23.
  9. ^ "Baseball Cards" New York Times sports section, February 10, 1980,
  10. ^ [3] "The Politics of Petulance," The Daily Beast
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  12. ^ RACING IN THE STREETS: The Bruce Springsteen Reader, Publishers Weekly review
  13. ^ The Subway Series Reader, edited by Pete Hamill.
  14. ^ "Dancing in the Dark," New England Review
  15. ^ "Walking While White," The Fortnightly Review
  16. ^ "The Right Side of the Diamond," The Fortnightly Review
  17. ^ "Chris Hillman discography". Starclustermusic.de. 1994-02-26. Retrieved 2012-10-23.
  18. ^ "Running the Roadblocks," Billboard Hot Country Singles
  19. ^ AllMusic, Step on Out.
  20. ^ Pietrusza, David (2008-08-10). "Baseball's Golden Age". Davidpietrusza.com. Retrieved 2012-10-23.
  21. ^ NBA Championship film That Championship Feeling, 1983.
  22. ^ NBA Championship film Pride and Passion, 1984.
  23. ^ History of Crawdaddy; Crawdaddy web site, 2008
  24. ^ a b "History of Crawdaddy". 2 August 2009.
  25. ^ "Publishers Weekly review". Search.barnesandnoble.com. Retrieved 2012-10-23.
  26. ^ ""Rock Magic", Crawdaddy, June 1975". Archived from the original on October 28, 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link).
  27. ^ Crawdaddy Party Mirrors Magazine, NY Times, June 9, 1976.
  28. ^ Middlebury Campus, March 8, 2017
  29. ^ "Play Ball" Middlebury College alumni magazine.
  30. ^ Clarence Clemons bio.
  31. ^ Captain Coconut.
  32. ^ Flearoy
  33. ^ "Mason Jar Music". Mason Jar Music. Retrieved 2012-10-23.
  34. ^ Goosehead Palace, Nashville, TN
  35. ^ Songs I Send My Son That He Sends Immediately to Spam
  36. ^ Songs I Send My Son That He Sends Immediately to Spam
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