Jon Landau
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- For the film producer, see Jon Landau (film producer).
Jon Landau is an American music critic, manager, and record producer, most known for his association in all three capacities with Bruce Springsteen.
His prophetic 1974 article in The Real Paper [1], wherein he famously claimed "I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen", is credited by Nick Hornby [2] and others with fostering the artist's popularity. Landau is also considered to have influenced Springsteen artistically [3] as well as professionally.
He has also produced The MC5, Livingston Taylor and Jackson Browne, and managed Shania Twain, among others.
Landau also has a history of giving controversial reviews. At the hight of his Cream prowess, Landau called accused Eric Clapton of being merely a "master of Blues Cliches". Later, he gave The Rolling Stones' record Sticky Fingers a zero star review in Rolling Stone magazine [4]. The magazine later listed it as the 63rd greatest album of all time [5]. Landau however was unrepentant.
He was once married to the New York Times film critic (and later book reviewer) Janet Maslin.
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