Tim Riley Riley in Concord, CA | University Of Rochester - Fairview High School

Tim R. Riley

Male, 59 years old

TIM RILEY BIO: Editor/Publisher of RileyRockIndex.com. AUTHOR, SPEAKER and NPR CRITIC Tim Riley is currently the music critic for NPR's HERE AND NOW, and has written for the WASHINGTON POST, NEWSWEEK, BOSTON MAGAZINE, the BOSTON PHOENIX, MONITOR RADIO, THE WORLD, and STUDIO 360 (PRI). Riley is the author of: Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (Knopf/Vintage 1988), which was hailed by the New York Times as bringing "new insight to the act we've known for all these years..." He has also written Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary (Knopf/Vintage 1992), Madonna: Illustrated (Hyperion 1992), and Fever: How Rock'n'Roll Transformed Gender in America (St. Martin's Press 2004). In addition to NPR and books, Riley has contributed to Huffington Post, The Washington Post, Boston Magazine, the Boston Phoenix, the Village Voice, and many other publications. His work is widely used in college courses on pop culture, and he gave a keynote address at BEATLES 2000, the first international academic conference on the band in Finland. His major new biography of John Ono Lennon will appear in fall 2011 from Hyperion. Specialties Beatle scholar, rock history Public Speaker: censorship in the arts Classical pianist: MM Eastman School 1985 BA/BM Oberlin College/Conservatory of Music (English honors, piano) read more ...