Sandy Pearlman

Sandy Pearlman (born Samuel C. Pearlman, August 8, 1943) is an American music producer, artist manager, professor, poet, songwriter, and former record company executive. He is best known for founding, writing for and producing or co-producing many LPs by Blue Öyster Cult, as well as producing important albums by The Clash, The Dictators, Pavlov's Dog, Space Team Electra and Dream Syndicate, and for being the founding Vice President of eMusic.com. He is the Schulich Distinguished Professor Chair at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montreal.

Biography

Pearlman grew up in Rockaway, New York, the son of successful drug store operator Hyman Pearlman. He received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1966, where he had been Student President. He was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in the History of Ideas, and completed graduate work at Brandeis University. He was also a New School Fellow in Sociology and Anthropology. As a University student, Pearlman wrote a series of poems called Imaginos, whose characters and lyrics would feature in his later career.