> ELIZABETH, New Jersey (AP) -- Al Aronowitz, a pioneer of rock > journalism who introduced Bob Dylan to the Beatles, died Monday, > his son said. He was 77. > > Aronowitz died of cancer, said his son, Joel Roi Aronowitz. > > Al Aronowitz became a journalist after studying at Rutgers > University in the mid-1950s. In 1959, at the New York Post, he > wrote a 12-part series on the "beat" movement. > > In reporting the series, he became a friend of such early > counterculture luminaries as poet Allen Ginsberg and novelist Jack > Kerouac. "He really fell into the whole lifestyle," said Gerry > Nicosia, author of the Jack Kerouac biography "Memory Babe." > > The pieces have been described as early examples of participatory > journalism, a technique perfected by better-known writers such as > Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson, > > The 1964 summit of the Beatles and Dylan came about as Aronowitz > was covering the British band for the Saturday Evening Post. He > also claimed that Dylan wrote "Mr. Tambourine Man" in his kitchen. > > In his last years, Aronowitz self-published two books, "Bob Dylan > and the Beatles" and "Bobby Darin Was a Friend of Mine." He was > working on another, "Mick and Miles," about Mick Jagger and Miles > Davis, when he died. > > Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This > material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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