Richard Meltzer (born May 10, 1945) is an American rock critic, performer, writer and songwriter. He is considered by some rock historians to be the first to write real analysis of rock and roll and is credited with inventing "rock criticism".

Richard Meltzer, who crashed PR parties, who upended the idea of what music journalism could be, fueled not by hippie ethos but by carrying the Beat Generation's streetwise hipster yawp of Kerouac, Burroughs, Ferlinghetti, Corso, et al, into the blossoming music scene of the late 1960's and beyond that the literary movement helped birth.

Feb 2, 2024 · As Blue Öyster Cult was working on their eighth album, rock critic Richard Meltzer ended up co-writing one of the band's biggest hits.

It covers everything from his earliest reviews for Crawdaddy up to recent essays, including hilarious, creative narratives that mask as live reviews. I had a chance to talk to him about everything from the connection between Little Richard and Greek Philosophers to why he thinks rock music must now die.

Jul 25, 2012 · After one very modest, beautifully named hit, he stuck to writing about rock instead, going on to author the now sadly neglected classic The Aesthetics of Rock. But what really happened is...

Apr 26, 1987 · “I used to get up in the morning and play records all day long and take notes,” recalls Richard Meltzer, whose 1970 book “The Aesthetics of Rock” was one of the first attempts to dissect...

Richard Meltzer was one of the first and best pioneering rock critics to hit the burgeoning rock music journalism scene back in the early 70s. He was born on May 11 in 1945. Richard studied philosophy at both the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Yale University.

Feb 25, 2023 · Richard Meltzer is an American music critic, performer, writer, and songwriter known as the first rock critic to write analysis of rock and roll. He is also credited with inventing "rock criticism." Meltzer's works include The Aesthetics of Rock.

Oct 31, 2024 · Richard Meltzer 1988, photo by Anna Statman. Richard Meltzer reached his Nineties apotheosis early in the decade, writing about the Rodney King decision and ensuing riots.

The Aesthetics of Rock is a book by Richard Meltzer (born May 10, 1945). [1] Written between 1965 and 1968, it was first published in 1970 by Something Else Press. In 1987, Da Capo Press published an unabridged second edition, with a new foreword by Meltzer. It is one of the first major works of rock-music criticism and analysis.