Dan Epstein is the Forward’s contributing music critic. His books include Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of ’76.
Dan EpsteinContributing Music Critic
By Dan Epstein
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Music How Jane Eyre and Marvin Gaye helped to inspire a pop star’s debut novel
With 'This Bird Has Flown,' Susanna Hoffs, formerly of The Bangles, explores her literary side
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Music Did hubris and ridiculous lyrics doom what could have been a rock ‘n’ roll sensation?
T. Rex's 'Tanx' should have been a smash in 1973. What did Marc Bolan get wrong?
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Music The great Burt Bacharach album that nobody’s talking about
Though it stalled on the charts, 'Reach Out' is a sumptuous 11-course aural feast
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Culture How Marty Feldman became the great forgotten Jewish comic
Best known as Igor in 'Young Frankenstein,' the actor and writer enjoyed a rich but all-too-brief career
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Music How a star named Barbra Streisand was born at a club in Greenwich Village
'Live at the Bon Soir' was Streisand's Beatles in Hamburg moment
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Film & TV The saga of Hollywood’s most terrifying vampire (and his Jewish parents)
1972's 'Blacula' was the brainchild of a couple of Jewish movie buffs from New York City
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Music Yes, they’re both Jewish, but Barry Manilow and Lou Reed had something else in common
Two guys from Brooklyn helped to launch Clive Davis and Arista Records into the stratosphere
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Music I was up onstage with Bob Dylan at Newport the night he went electric
For keyboardist Barry Goldberg, the legendary 1965 folk festival started out as a nightmare but ended up as a dream
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