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Hank Bordowitz Hank Bordowitz

There are few things Hank Bordowitz hasn't done in the entertainment biz, and lived to tell the tale. His career has taken him to television, radio, records, the web, infinity and beyond.

As a musician, he played in bars and pit bands through High School, touring with a theater company by night while attending classes by day. His edgy work on college radio nearly got him thrown out of school his first semester. He graduated to a hot moment as a recording artist for a company that went out of business weeks after he turned in his master. He has subsequently worked on the biz side of things for A&M, Antilles New Directions, Columbia, IRS, Island, PolyGram, RCA/BMG, Atlantic, Intuition, Tuff City and others.

As an editor, Hank top-kicked Rock Scene, Rock Fever Metal Mania, Creem Special Issues and Concert Shots magazines, managed the editorial at Wizard, The Guide To Comics, served as Director of Editorial Content at MCY.com and edited the original Interactive Quarterly, the first magazine about Cyberotica - and takes credit for coining the word.

Hank's work appears in half a dozen books including the forward of the Peanuts Illustrated Songbook. His own books include

• Bad Moon Rising: The Unauthorized History of Creedence Clearwater Revival,
• The U2 Reader: A Quarter Century of Commentary, Criticism and Reviews
• The Bruce Springsteen Scrapbook
• Every Little Thing Gonna Be Alright: The Bob Marley Reader,
• Turning Points of Rock and Roll, Noise of the World, Non-Western Musicians in their Own Words
• Billy Joel: Life & Times of an Angry Young Man, and
• Dirty Little Secrets of the Record Business: Why So Much Music You Hear Sucks.

His work has appeared in hundreds of magazines including Playboy, Gallery and, Spin. Hank's television work includes stints with VH-1, the CBS Morning Show, and TV-1 News, Finland. He worked extensively on the PBS show Spike and Company Do It A Cappella.

In addition to all of this, he also teaches as an adjunct professor at the music department of Ramapo College of the State of New Jersey, Colorado State University(online) and Baruch College.


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