Irving Azoff

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  • Año:
    2020
  • Categoría:
    Ahmet Ertegun Award
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A hardworking pioneer in the music industry, Azoff is often cited as the ultimate rock manager and has brought many successful bands to light in the past decades. 

Hall of Fame Essay

2020

Cameron Crowe

I met him in 1973. He was instantly memorable. Irving Azoff was a lit firecracker with a bowl-cut hairstyle, a mischievous smile, a restless sense of fun, and a mind reeling with the most entertaining ways imaginable to subvert authority. He was then the fledgling manager of Joe Walsh, but was already infamous in the musical community as the guy who would do anything – with glee – to protect and champion his artists. 

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