Robert Shelton
Critic, Author
1926 – 1995
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Who was Robert Shelton?
Robert Shelton, born Robert Shapiro was a music and film critic. Shelton was perhaps most notable for the way in which he helped to launch the career of a then unknown 20-year-old folk singer named Bob Dylan. In 1961, Dylan was performing at Gerdes Folk City in the West Village, one of the best-known folk venues in New York, opening for a bluegrass act called the Greenbriar Boys. Shelton's positive review, in the The New York Times, brought crucial publicity to Dylan, and led to a Columbia recording contract.
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- Born
- Jun 28, 1926
Chicago - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Northwestern University
- Died
- Dec 11, 1995
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on July 23, 2013
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