Michael Goldberg (writer)
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Michael Goldberg self-portrait
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| Born | July 3, 1953 |
| Nationality | American |
Michael Goldberg (born July 3, 1953) is a novelist, journalist, animal rights activist, and pioneering digital music entrepreneur. He is known for his work (1983-1993) at Rolling Stone, where he was first a senior writer and later West Coast editor, and for envisioning and co-founding the first web music magazine, Addicted to Noise, in 1994, for which Newsweek included him in its 1995 "Net 50" list of "the 50 People Who Matter Most on the Internet." More recently, he's published two '70s coming-of-age novels, True Love Scars and The Flowers Lied (the first two volumes of a planned Freak Scene Dream trilogy), and worked actively in animal rights causes.
Born in Oakland, California, Goldberg grew up across the San Francisco Bay in Marin County. He started writing short stories in elementary school, but seeing the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show turned him into an obsessive rock 'n' roll fan—as he later recalled, "It was like being hit by lightning or something." In 1967, while still in middle school, he launched a psychedelic poster business with a friend and photographed Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek of the Doors and other artists at the KFRC Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival on Mount Tamalpais. That same year he bought the first issue of Rolling Stone and decided to become a music journalist.
As a student at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, Goldberg pursued both journalism and entrepreneurial ventures, serving as the school newspaper's arts editor, writing a music column, organizing a light show troupe, and promoting dance concerts, convincing then-guitar god Mike Bloomfield to perform at a school dance. Inspired by Rolling Stone, he and a friend published a rock magazine, Hard Road, interviewing Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, who lived nearby; Goldberg photographed Garcia for the cover. Some of these experiences were the foundation for events in his first novel, True Love Scars.
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