The passing of the colorful executive elicited plenty of memories from those who worked with him. Here’s one from a journalist who was hired to write a speech
Author: Ira Mayer
Ira Mayer
Ira Mayer is a marketing and licensing consultant; he is not now nor has he ever been a rabbi. He started writing about music for the Village Voice as a freshman at Hunter College in 1970 and ended his rock critic period 20 years later following 12 years at the NY Post. In between, there were contributions to Rolling Stone, The Sunday NY Times, Crawdaddy and many others. Read his latter-day pop culture jottings at www.nightmayer.net.