Domenic Priore
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| birth_name = Domenic Priore
| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|January 15th 1960}}
| birth_place = Pasadena, California, United States
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- Author
- popular music and culture historian
- documentary writer
- television producer
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| education = Pasadena City College
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| genre = American popular music, American popular culture
| subject = Psychedelia, counterculture of the 1960s
| notableworks = Look! Listen! Vibrate! Smile!, Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece, Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock 'n' Roll's Last Stand in Hollywood
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Domenic Priore (born January 15, 1960) is an American author, historian and television producer whose focus is on popular music and its attendant youth culture.{{cite web|last1=Crew|first1=Adrienne|title=LAist Interview: Domenic Priore|url=http://laist.com/2005/07/18/laist_interview_domenic_priore.php|publisher=LAist|date=July 18, 2005|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140530223559/http://laist.com/2005/07/18/laist_interview_domenic_priore.php|archive-date=May 30, 2014}}
Biography
He has written extensively about the Beach Boys' album Smile, including two books on the subject, Look! Listen! Vibrate! Smile! and Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece.{{cite web|last=Alpert|first=Neal|title=That Music Was Actually Created|url=http://www.gadflyonline.com/05-06-02/ftr-smile.html|work=Gadfly|publisher=Gadfly Online|access-date=July 16, 2013}} In 2011, he contributed to the liner notes of compilation album The Smile Sessions.{{cite web|last1=Peters|first1=Tony|title=Show #124 - Domenic Priore (10/31/11)|url=http://www.iconfetch.com/domenic-priore-beach-boys.html|publisher=Icon Fetch|date=October 31, 2011|access-date=November 4, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229100410/http://www.iconfetch.com/domenic-priore-beach-boys.html|archive-date=December 29, 2014|url-status=dead}} He has also published a number of books and articles on the greater Los Angeles area's youth culture during the 1960s, with special focus on the surf craze and the Sunset Strip music scene.
Priore worked as the primary writer and creative consultant on the AMC documentaries Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955–1970) and Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s.{{cite web|title=CONTRIBUTOR: Domenic Priore|date=20 January 2011 |url=http://www.theinertia.com/author/domenic-priore/|publisher=The Inertia}}
Publications
- {{cite book|last=Priore|first=Domenic|title=Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile: The Book about the Mysterious Beach Boys Album|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oy4BAAAACAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Surfin' Colours Hollywood|isbn=9780867194173}}
- {{cite book|last=Priore|first=Domenic|title=Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=81YIAQAAMAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Sanctuary|location=London|isbn=1860746276}}
- {{cite book|last1=Chidester|first1=Brian|last2=Priore|first2=Domenic|title=Pop Surf Culture: Music, Design, Film, and Fashion from the Bohemian Surf Boom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MSFaAAAAYAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Santa Monica Press|isbn=978-1-59580-035-0}}
- {{cite book|last=Priore|first=Domenic|title=Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock'N'Roll's Last Stand in Hollywood|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p5TB5mDYdCAC|date=2007|publisher=Jawbone Press|isbn=978-1-906002-94-7}}
- {{cite book|last1=Merritt|first1=Christopher|last2=Priore|first2=Domenic|title=Pacific Ocean Park: The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles' Space Age Nautical Pleasure Pier|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5W9_ngEACAAJ|year=2014|publisher=Process|isbn=978-1-934170-52-6}}
Filmography
- Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955–1970) (2000, hosted by Ringo Starr)
- Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s (2002, hosted by David Bowie)
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Category:American music critics