Richie Unterberger
@Folkrox
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I've written almost a dozen books about rock music, including ones on the Velvet Underground, Who, Beatles, and 1960s folk-rock. I teach rock history courses.
San Francisco
Joined August 2013
The new book World Countdown August 1966-July 1967 reprints all of the issues the first year of one of the most idiosyncratic music magazines of the late 1960s. I interviewed the book's editor, Richard Morton Jack, about the magazine in my new blogpost at
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Tomorrow (Monday, October 13) from 6pm-7:30pm Pacific, I'll present a free Zoom program on Creedence Clearwater Revival, quite possibly the finest rock group to emerge from El Cerrito, California. To access the event, go to https://t.co/rnT58n1ReP at the time listed.
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Join Richie Unterberger for a tribute to Creedence Clearwater Revival. Quite possibly the finest rock group to emerge from El Cerrito, California, their
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The chapter on the Pretty Things from my book Urban Spacemen and Wayfaring Strangers: Overlooked Innovators and Eccentric Visionaries of '60s Rock is quoted a few times in the New York Times obituary of the Pretty Things' original drummer, Viv Prince.
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A drummer for the 1960s British band the Pretty Things, “the high priest of lunacy” set a high bar for fiery performances and offstage misbehavior.
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Singer-songwriter David Ackles put out several idiosyncratic albums in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I interviewed Mark Brend, author of a new Ackles biography, Mark Brend at length in my new blogpost at https://t.co/647WE1NEDU.
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Tomorrow (Mon Sept 22) 6-7:30pm Pacific, I'll present a free Zoom program on the Everly Brothers. To access the event, go to https://t.co/NY1B3UvzwZ at the time listed. This program will not be recorded
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Saturday (Sept 20) 11am-12:30pm, I'll discuss vintage folk-rock film clips from the 1960s at the Gilroy CA Library. Also on Saturday, September 20 from 2-3:30pm, I'll present a program on Latinx Rock from the 1950s through the 1980s at Morgan Hill CA Library Admission is free.
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Wed Sept 10 1-2:30pm at Jewish Community Center of San Francisco at 3200 California Street, I'll present "The Three Stooges: Clown Princes of Jewish Slapstick Comedy," an appreciation of their immense body of work by showing and discussing selected film clips. Admission is free.
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Tomorrow (Mon September 8) from 6-7:30pm Pacific , I'll present the free Zoom program "Before They Were Famous," showing little seen clips of musical stars from the 1950s through the 1970s before they were famous. To access the program, go to https://t.co/zw7J1CfKQt.
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Join rock music historian Richie Unterberger for "Before They Were Famous," showing little seen clips of musical stars from the 1950s through the 1970s
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Tomorrow (Thurs Sept 4) 7-8:30pm, I'll present a program on Latinx Rock from the 1950s through the 1980s at Los Altos Library on 13 S. San Antonio Road. I'll show and discuss film clips of Latinx performers from the 1950s through the 1980s. This event will not be recorded.
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Tomorrow (Mon Aug 25 6-7:30pm Pacific), I'll present the free Zoom program International Rock a Go-Go, Part 2, featuring performers from non-English speaking countries. To access the program, go to https://t.co/Nhn60Aehz1 at the time listed. This program will not be recorded.
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On Monday, August 25, Richie Unterberger presents International Rock a Go-Go, Part 2. This sequel to the first part he presented earlier this summer
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Tomorrow (Tues Aug 19) 1-2:30pm at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco at 3200 California Street, I'll present "The Marx Brothers: The Greatest Jewish Comedy Team." Admission is free, though registration is advised through
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Relish the life and times of the multi-talented Marx siblings, sons of immigrants whose humor, although not overtly Jewish, was deeply connected to it.
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Tuesdays Sept 2-Oct 14 7:10-9:30pm Pacific Time, I'm teaching the course Sound and Vision: The Visuals of Popular Music at the College of Marin. This will be taught simultaneously in-person and via Zoom. Registration info (for course 25320) is at https://t.co/xMPrNPGqPb.
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Tomorrow (Mon Aug 11) 6-7:30pm Pacific, I'll present the free Zoom program the Lost British Invaders, devoted to the best British rock acts of the 1960s that didn’t have hits in the United States. To access the program, go to https://t.co/PkVcTrbKLa at the time listed.
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On Monday, August 11, Richie Unterberger presents The Lost British Invaders, devoted to the best British rock acts of the 1960s that didn’t have hits in
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I interviewed Sue Carpenter, director of the new documentary 40 Watts from Nowhere, which tells the story of the pirate radio stations she operated in Los Angeles and (much more briefly) San Francisco in the mid-to-late 1990s, at https://t.co/hbeKDqdz1j
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Tomorrow (Mon Jul 28) 6-7:30pm Pacific, I'll present the free Zoom program International Rock A Go-Go, Part 1. This will celebrate early rock performers from non-English-speaking countries. To access the program, go to https://t.co/sKoU3HwDor at the time listed.
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On Monday, July 28, Richie Unterberger presents International Rock a Go-Go, Part 1. This will celebrate early rock performers from non-English-speaking
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Tomorrow (Mon July 14) 6-7:30pm Pacific, I'll presents a free Zoom program on Jefferson Airplane. To access the program, go to https://t.co/HXYkJseXxh at the time listed. This event will not be recorded.
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On Monday, July 14, Richie Unterberger presents a program on Jefferson Airplane, the greatest group from the San Francisco psychedelic rock explosion.
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Tomorrow (Mon June 23) 6-7:30pm Pacific Time, I'll celebrate France’s overlooked contributions to a major form of popular music with the free Zoom program “French Rock: The Early Years.” To access the program, go to https://t.co/7JSI1udCeW at the time listed.
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Author and rock historian Richie Unterberger celebrates France’s overlooked contributions to a major form of popular music in “French Rock: The Early
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Thurs June 12 1-2:30pm Pacific at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco on 3200 California Street, I'll present a free program spotlighting the prime work of the Kinks. To register for the program, go to https://t.co/d1of7JZ2LQ…. This program will not be recorded.
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Groove to the Kinks’ amazing transition from spirited hits like “You Really Got Me” to satirical smashes like “Lola” while watching footage from their heyday.
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Tomorrow (Mon June 9) 6-7:30pm Pacific, I'll present a free Zoom program on early Canadian rock. The program will spotlight neighbors to the north like Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, the Guess Who, and others. To access the program, go to https://t.co/pIsjlo4uCY.
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Tomorrow (Mon May 26) 6-7:30pm Pacific, I'm on Sly & the Family Stone’s peak in the late 1960s and early 1970s. To access the program go to https://t.co/TzzlN8eFSg at the time listed. This event will not be recorded.
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As Sly Stone is back in the news with a recent acclaimed documentary on the singer-songwriter by Questlove, rock historian Richie Unterberger honors the
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