Sonic Youth Gossip - Hal Willner 1956-2020

Read tributes to Hal Willner from Sonic Youth, Julia Louis Dreyfus, Ben Stiller, Van Dyke Parks, Nels Cline, Vernon Reid, Beth Orton, Peter Holsapple, Judd Apatow, Tim Robbins, Michael Azerrad, Sean Ono Lennon, Richard Lewis, more

Most headlines are about his work at SNL, but if you're not familiar with him, his Wikipedia page mentions some of the extraordinary artists whose music he produced ("Marianne Faithfull, Lou Reed, Bill Frisell, Steven Bernstein, William S. Burroughs, Gavin Friday, Lucinda Williams, Laurie Anderson and Allen Ginsberg, among others") and the amazing multi-performer albums and events he was behind (like September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill and The Harry Smith Project: Anthology of American Folk Music Revisited). Lou Reed would be crushed - they were best friends.

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