Tim Riley (music critic)
Tim Riley | |
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| Born | Tim Riley 1960 (age 63–64) |
| Nationality | American |
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Tim Riley (born 1960)[1] is a music journalist who reviews pop and classical music for NPR,[2] and has written for The New York Times,[3] truthdig, the Huffington Post, the Washington Post, Slate and Salon.
Career
[edit]His first book was Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (Knopf/Vintage 1988), a critique of the Beatles' music, which The New York Times said brought "new insight to the act we've known for all these years".[1]
His television appearances include Morning Joe,[4] PBS NewsHour,[5] CBS Morning and Evening News, MTV, and the History Channel.
Since 2009, he has taught digital journalism at Emerson College in Boston.[6] Brown University sponsored Riley as its critic-in-residence in 2008.[6] Riley gave a keynote address at Beatles 2000, the first international academic conference in Jyväskylä, Finland.[7] Since then, he has given lectures on censorship in the arts and rock history.[6] His subsequent projects include the music metaportal Riley Rock Index[8] and a biography of John Lennon (Hyperion, 2011),[9][10] which was included in Kirkus Reviews' list of the Best Nonfiction of 2011.[11]
Books
[edit]- Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (1988), ISBN 978-0394550619
- Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary (1992), ISBN 978-0394578897
- Madonna Illustrated (1992), ISBN 978-1562829834
- Fever: How Rock 'n' Roll Transformed Gender in America (2004), ISBN 978-0312286118
- Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life (2011), ISBN 978-1401324520
- What Goes On: The Beatles, Their Music, and Their Time (Walter Everett and Tim Riley, 2019), ISBN 978-0190949877
References
[edit]- ^ a b Pareles, Jon (June 19, 1988). "IN SHORT: NONFICTION". New York Times. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
- ^ Cantrell, Cindy (November 6, 2011). "Concord author writes a John Lennon biography". Boston Globe. Retrieved September 16, 2012.(registration required)
- ^ Riley, Tim (December 6, 2013). "'Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years, Volume 1,' by Mark Lewisohn". The New York Times. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
- ^ "Morning Joe". MSNBC. October 14, 2011. Archived from the original on June 27, 2009. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
- ^ Brown, Jeffrey (September 9, 2009). "Decades Later, Beatles Hits Continue to Draw New Fans". PBS NewsHour. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
- ^ a b c "Journalism Faculty - Tim Riley". Emerson College. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
- ^ "Alumni Notes" (PDF). Eastman Notes. Eastman School of Music. Spring–Summer 2002. p. 28. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
- ^ "Riley Rock Index". Retrieved September 15, 2014.
- ^ Parker, James (October 7, 2011). "John Lennon's Primal Screams". The New York Times. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
- ^ "Nonfiction Review: Lennon: the Man, the Myth, the Music--the Definitive Life". Publishers Weekly. July 11, 2011. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
- ^ Liebtrau, Eric (ed.). "Best Nonfiction of 2011". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on January 15, 2013. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
