Richie Unterberger
San Francisco resident Richie Unterberger is the author of numerous rock history books, including Won't Get Fooled Again: The Who from Lifehouse to Quadrophenia. His book The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film won a 2007 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. Other titles of his include a history of 1960s folk-rock, Jingle Jangle Morning; White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day; and the upcoming Bob Marley & the Wailers: The Ultimate Illustrated History, which will be published in September 2017.
Unterberger teaches courses on rock history at the University of San Francisco-affiliated Fromm Institute, the College of Marin, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Dominican University in San Rafael. He has contributed to numerous publications, including MOJO, Record Collector, and The Oxford American. He has also written several hundred liner notes for CD reissues on various labels, including Rhino, Universal, Collectors’ Choice, and Real Gone Music. There’s more information about his work on his website, richieunterberger.com, and articles about music and other topics on his blog, richieunterberger.com/wordpress.