Bill Adler
Bill Adler (born December 18, 1951) is an American
music journalist and critic. 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. 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".
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