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Bill Adler was born on 18 December, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S., is an American music journalist and critic. Discover Bill Adler's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 18 December 1951
Birthday 18 December
Birthplace Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Bill Adler is an American music journalist and critic.

1951

William Adler, known as Bill, was born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 18, 1951.

1960

Since the late 1960s, he has worked in the music business in a variety of capacities, including as a record store clerk, radio disc jockey, critic, publicist, biographer, record label executive, documentary filmmaker, museum consultant, art gallerist, curator, and archivist.

1969

Adler's first exposure to the music business came in the fall of 1969, when he was hired in the record department of a university bookstore.

1972

In 1972, he started to host a weekly freeform radio show on WCBN-FM, the University of Michigan's student station.

1973

In the summer of 1973, he began working at radio station WDET-FM, Detroit, as the board operator (and occasional substitute host) for Kenny Cox, a local jazz pianist and bandleader who hosted a weekly show called "Kaleidophone."

Later that year, Adler began a three-year stint as contributing music editor for the Ann Arbor Sun, a weekly underground newspaper edited by the poet and activist John Sinclair and published by David Fenton.

A year later, Adler began reviewing records for Down Beat magazine.

1975

In the spring of 1975, Adler was briefly a deejay at WABX, Detroit, a pioneering free-form radio station.

1976

He moved with his family to Detroit before he was five, and he lived in Michigan until 1976.

He attended the James Vernor elementary school through the ninth grade, and graduated from Southfield High School.

He later matriculated briefly at the University of Michigan.

Adler moved to Boston in February 1976.

1977

He deejayed at radio station WBCN-FM throughout the spring of 1977 and freelanced articles about music to the Real Paper and High Times.

1978

He was the staff pop music critic of the Boston Herald from April 1978 until April 1980.

1980

Adler moved to New York in July 1980.

For the next several years he worked as a freelance writer on musical subjects for publications including the Village Voice, Rolling Stone, People, and the Daily News.

1982

He also wrote the foreword to Sophie Bramly's "Yo! The Early Days of Hip Hop 1982-84," published by Soul Jazz Books in 2022.

1984

He is known best for his tenure as director of publicity at Def Jam Recordings (1984–1990), the period of his career to which the critic Robert Christgau was referring when he described Adler as a "legendary publicist".

In 1984, Russell Simmons hired Adler as director of publicity for Rush Artist Management and Def Jam Recordings.

During the next six years Adler worked closely with a variety of artists, including Run-DMC, Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde, the Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince and De La Soul.

1987

Adler has written and taught extensively based on his experiences at Def Jam; in 1987, he wrote Tougher Than Leather: The Authorized Biography of Run-DMC (New American Library), described by the critic Harry Allen in the Village Voice as "hip-hop's first authorized biography and a definitive, insightful text."

1994

In 1994, Adler and the poet Bob Holman co-founded NuYo Records, a record label devoted to the spoken word.

1995

In the summer of 1995, Adler and Holman and their associates on New York's spoken word scene were the subject of an article in The New Yorker by Henry Louis Gates Jr.. In 1998, Adler founded Mouth Almighty Books to publish Beau Sia's "A Night Without Armor II: The Revenge," a parody of a book of poetry by Jewel entitled "A Night Without Armor."

1996

Initially distributed by BMG, this venture was revived as Mouth Almighty Records by Danny Goldberg when he became the president of Mercury Records in 1996.

Over the course of the next three years the label released 18 titles, including recordings by the Last Poets, Allen Ginsberg, Michele Serros, and Sekou Sundiata, two CDs of short fiction from The New Yorker magazine, a two-CD set of readings of Edgar Allan Poe produced by Hal Willner, and the soundtrack to The United States of Poetry, a five-part PBS television special.

2002

The critic Jon Caramanica, in a review for Rolling Stone of the 2002 reissue of the book, suggested it "might well be the most comprehensive biography ever written about a pop act while it was still in its prime."

2004

In 2004, Adler formed Eyejammie Press to publish “Frozade Moments,” a book of postcards featuring the street photography of Ricky Powell.

Gina Wang, writing for Mass Appeal magazine, praised the book as "a visual trip through a mismatched combination of celebs, knuckleheads, animals and NYC's indigenous subjects, all shot from Powell's gritty perspective."

2006

In the spring of 2006, Adler taught a course about Def Jam at New York University's Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music, and in 2011, Adler and Dan Charnas co-authored Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label, which was published in both English and French.

(The French-language version was created by French journalist Olivier Cachin.)

Adler's essay, "Who Shot Ya: A History of Hip-Hop Photography” was commissioned by the journalist Jeff Chang and published in Chang's "Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop” (Basic Civitas 2006).

It was later republished in Wax Poetics magazine.

2007

Adler wrote the text for Michael Benabib's “In Ya Grill: The Faces of Hip Hop,” which was published by Billboard Books in 2007.

2008

In the fall of 2008, Adler and the artist Cey Adams co-edited DEFinition: the Art and Design of Hip-Hop (Collins Design), a book described by Adler himself as "a catalog for a [museum] exhibition that is waiting to happen."

DEFinition was praised by the critic Cinque Hicks in Creative Loafing as "a voracious and wide-ranging visual survey that makes the case that hip-hop's musical heritage is only part of the story."

2018

Adler's essay, "Contact Sheets: Freedom of Choice," was commissioned by Vikki Tobak and published in Tobak's "Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop" (Clarkson Potter 2018).

2020

In December of 2020, a booklet by Adler entitled entitled “Every Year Just ‘Bout This Time, Kurtis Blow Celebrates with a Rhyme," was published by Music Arkives Ltd. This is an expanded version of an article published by the Smithsonian (magazine) in December of 2019 and pegged to the 40th anniversary of the release of Blow's "Christmas Rappin'" single. In the fall of 2023, an autobiographical comic book by Umar Bin Hassan of The Last Poets entitled "Up South in Akron, Summer 1959," was published by Music Arkives Ltd. Adler was its editor. Adler was an early champion of hip-hop photography; in 1991, he wrote the text for "Rap: Portraits and Lyrics of a Generation of Black Rockers," which showcased the work of Janette Beckman. (The book was published by St. Martin's Press in America and Omnibus Press in England.) In 2003, he founded the Eyejammie Fine Arts Gallery, which was largely devoted to hip-hop photography.

During the gallery's five years of existence, Adler curated or co-curated one-man shows showcasing the work of photographers Michael Benabib, Al Pereira, Ricky Powell, Ernie Paniccioli, Harry Allen, and others.

Group shows celebrated Run-DMC, women in hiphop, VP Records and dancehall reggae, Southern hip-hop, and ego trip Magazine.