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Alfred Gilbert Aronowitz (May 20, 1928 – August 1, 2005) was an American rock journalist best known for introducing Bob Dylan to The Beatles in 1964.
Aronowitz claimed that Dylan wrote the song "Mr. Tambourine Man" while staying in Aronowitz's Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, home west of Newark. "Aronowitz claimed that Mr. Dylan composed "Mr. Tambourine Man" during a long night of repeated listenings to Marvin Gaye's "Can I Get a Witness" at Aronowitz's home in Berkeley Heights, N.J."
Aronowitz was the original manager of The Velvet Underground, getting the band their first gig in the auditorium of the high school in Summit, New Jersey next to Berkeley Heights. The Velvet Underground stole Aronowitz's tape recorder and dumped him as manager weeks later when they met the artist Andy Warhol. Beginning in the late1960s, Aronowitz wrote the Pop Scene column for the New York Post; he was fired in 1972 for conflict of interest because he managed bands.
Aronowitz died of cancer in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on August 1, 2005, at the age of 77.
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Categories: American Music Journalists, 1928 Births, 2005 Deaths, Deaths From Cancer In New Jersey, People From Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, People From Bordentown, New Jersey, Rutgers University Alumni, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, 20th-century American Jews, 21st-century American Jews, Jewish American Journalists
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