Sandy Pearlman - Definition and Overview

Sandy Pearlman was the original producer, manager and a songwriter for the Blue Öyster Cult.

• Also produced: the Dictators, the Clash, Pavlov’s Dog, Dream Syndicate (of the L.A. Paisley Underground scene)

• One of the original rock music critics for Crawdaddy! magazine (1967, along with Paul Williams, Jon Landau, Richard Meltzer, et al)

• according to The Seattle Times, the originator of the term "heavy metal music" (while writing for Crawdaddy!)

• hailed (or blamed) by The Village Voice for creating “the Triumph of the Will guitar sound”

• recipient of more than 15 gold and platinum records

• pioneered & presently working at legitimate delivery of music online

• graduate of Stony Brook University, 1966

• Woodrow Wilson Fellow in the History of Ideas

• New School Fellow in Sociology and Anthropology

• played by Christopher Walken in the often requested Saturday Night Live More Cowbell parody skit of the making of “The Reaper”. However the name of Iron Maiden's lead singer (who would have been only 18 in 1976) is erroneously used instead. Bruce Dickinson has produced some BÖC reissues. {This skit is available on DVD -- and by Internet search}

External Links

• BÖC reviews by Robert Christgau in The Village Voice (http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=blue+oyster)
• Sandy Pearlman's web-site (http://www.sandypearlman.com/index.html)