Matthew King Kaufman

Matthew "King" Kaufman (born May 19, 1946 in Baltimore, Maryland) was owner and chief producer at leading independent label Beserkley Records in Berkeley, California from the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s, successfully producing records by Jonathan Richman, Greg Kihn and others.

Biography

Raised in Baltimore, Kaufman graduated from law school but never took the bar. Instead, convinced they were to be the next Beatles, Kaufman went to California to co-manage the San Francisco rock band Earth Quake. He helped the band get a two-record deal with A&M Records in 1970, and picked up production tips from Lou Adler and Glyn Johns. Also while at A&M, Kaufman helped organize the series of demos recorded by The Modern Lovers. These recordings were unreleased at the time, but would later form the basis of their acclaimed debut album.

The Beserkley Years (1973-1984)

After becoming frustrated with A&M, Kaufman decided to set up his own label in 1973. Beserkley Records (headquartered at John Doukas' house at 1199 Spruce St. in Berkeley, California). The first releases from the label, ignored in the United States, were embraced in the U.K. with Roadrunner reaching #11 on the UK singles chart. The follow-up single Egyptian Reggae reached #5 in the UK singles chart in 1977. By 1975, the label had an artist roster consisting of Earth Quake, Jonathan Richman (with and without the Modern Lovers), The Rubinoos and Greg Kihn. Kaufman co-produced album releases by all these artists, as well as acquiring the rights to the 1972 A&M Modern Lovers recordings, which were issued as an album in 1976. Beserkley also released singles and compilation tracks by a handful of other artists.

King Kaufman

King Kaufman is the current writing program manager at Bleacher Report and former daily sports columnist for Salon.com. Kaufman grew up in Los Angeles, lived for six years in St. Louis, and moved back to San Francisco in the summer of 2007. In January 2011, King left Salon.

In addition to covering the major American sports leagues and international events such as the Olympics and the World Cup, Kaufman's columns often deal with issues related to the state of American sports. Some specific concerns of Kaufman include the role of race in sports and American culture, publicly financed stadiums, performance-enhancing substances, the inequalities and hypocrisy in the NCAA, and the poor quality of television sports announcing.

His articles feature light-hearted humor, typically with a degree of self-deprecation. A former Angeleno, he enjoys relating stories of his fond memories of the Dodger games he listened to as a child.

Annually, he tracks the performance of NFL prognosticators, himself included, along with his son Buster, the "coin-flippinest 4-year-old in North America", who flips coins to randomly predict the outcome of (presumably) closely contested games.

Matthew King

Matthew King or Matt King may refer to:

Matthew King (composer)

Matthew King (born 1967) is a British composer, pianist and teacher of composition. His works include opera, piano and chamber music, choral and orchestral pieces.

Career

Matthew King's first opera, The Snow Queen, was described by one reviewer as "music of distinctive beauty with disarming theatre sense." Subsequent operatic pieces include "Schoenberg in Hollywood" and "Il Pastorale, l'Urbano e il Suburbano" with words by Alasdair Middleton; the chamber opera, Das Babylon Experiment (libretto by Michael Kerstan), and "The Pied Piper" (libretto by Michael Irwin). Matthew King's instrumental works include Totentango, premiered in 2010 by the London Symphony Orchestra. Blue, a concerto for piano and chamber orchestra, was written in 2011 for the Savant pianist, Derek Paravicini and a 'Hitchcockian tone poem’ called "Velocity", for ensemble, chorus and big band, which was premiered by Aurora Orchestra in 2011.

Matthew King (MP)

Matthew King (by 1520-66 or later), of Malmesbury, Wiltshire, was an English politician.

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Malmesbury in October 1553, April 1554, 1555 and 1558.

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