Paul Zollo
Paul Steven Zollo (born August 9, 1958) is a songwriter, singer and recording artist for Trough Records. He has also authored many books, is a photographer and music journalist. He was the senior editor of American Songwriter magazine for 24 years.
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Paul Zollo
- Name
- Paul Zollo
- Birth Name
- Paul Steven Zollo
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
- Occupation
- * Author
- Born
- 1958 · Chicago.
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
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Paul Steven Zollo (born August 9, 1958) is a songwriter, singer and recording artist for Trough Records. He has also authored many books, is a photographer and music journalist. He was the senior editor of American Songwriter magazine for 24 years.
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Paul Zollo (born 1958) is an American journalist, musician and photographer, among other activities. The journalist was born in Chicago. Languages used include English.
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Biography
He wrote "Songwriters On Songwriting," "More Songwriters On Songwriting," "Conversations with Tom Petty, Expanded Edition," "Hollywood Remembered," "Schirmer's Complete Rhyming Dictionary" and "The Beginning Songwriter's Answer Book." He is the leader of the L.A. band the Ghosters, with whom he made one self-titled album of his original songs in 1984. He also made two solo albums, Orange Avenue (which features a duet with Art Garfunkel on the song "Being in this World") and Universal Cure. He has written songs with many songwriters and artists, including Darryl Purpose, Steve Allen, Dan Bern, Bob Malone, Stephen Kalinich, and Severin Browne.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Paul Zollo • Birth Name — Paul Steven Zollo • Birthplace — Chicago, Illinois, U.S. • Occupation — * Author • journalist • musician • photographer
Journalist
Journalist
Zollo was the editor of SongTalk magazine for many years, and went on to become Senior Editor of American Songwriter magazine and Managing Editor of Performing Songwriter magazine. He has also contributed articles to many magazines including Variety, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Musician, Oxford Press, Playback, Gorgeous, Boulevard, Music Connection, and Campus Circle.
Father
Father
His father, Burt Zollo, was also a writer, the author of three books (The Dollars & Sense of Public Relations [McGraw Hill], Prisoners, A Novel [Chicago Academy Press], and State & Wacker, A Novel [iUniverse]) and many magazine essays and articles. A former colleague of Hugh Hefner at Esquire magazine, he contributed to the first issues of Playboy magazine, including the inaugural Marilyn Monroe issue, under the pseudonym "Bob Norman".
Identity
Identity
Paul Zollo is recorded with the occupation singer-songwriter. Recorded with the occupation music journalist. Recorded as photographer, writer, journalist, singer-songwriter and musician.
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1958
Paul Zollo was born on 9 August 1958.
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- 1.Muse's Muse Interview, May 1998.
- 2.George Plasketes. Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself: Essays on Debut Albums. Taylor & Francis. 212. 2016. 978-1-317-07974-3.
- 3.American Songwriter Magazine Names Paul Zollo as Senior Editor.
- 4.Executive Turntable. Billboard. 38. 2004.
- 5.Pitzulo, Carrie. "The Eternal Bachelor." American Popular Culture, January 2006.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 9
- The Beginning Songwriter's Answer Book (1990)
- Songwriters on Songwriting
- Songwriters on Songwriting (Expanded Edition) (2003)
- Hollywood Remembered (An Oral History of Its Golden Age) (2002)
- Conversations with Tom Petty (2005)
- Sunset & Cahuenga (A Novel)
- The Schirmer's Complete Rhyming Dictionary. (2007)
- More Songwriters on Songwriting (2016)
- Conversations with Tom Petty, Expanded Edition' (2020)
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