Howard Bloom in January 2008.
Howard Bloom (born 1943 in Buffalo, New York) is an American author, editor and scientist.
Biography
Bloom attended Reed College, though he left that college in 1962. From 1964 to 1968, Bloom went to college at New York University. On graduation, he co-founded Cloud Studio. In 1971, Bloom took over as editor of Circus Magazine, a rock and roll monthly, though he knew nothing about rock and roll at the time, and learned after taking the job. Bloom created a new format and was credited by veteran Rolling Stone editor Chet Flippo in his masters thesis on the history of rock journalism with "creating a new magazine genre--the heavy metal magazine." Under Bloom's editorial leadership, and that of Circus publisher Gerald Rothberg,[1] Circus increased in circulation 211% by 1973.
From 1973 to 1976, Bloom started public and artist relations departments for Gulf & Western's fourteen record companies and ABC Records, and launched the careers of Stephanie Mills and Chaka Khan. In 1976, Bloom founded The Howard Bloom Organization, Ltd., the largest public relations firm in the record industry. His clients included Michael Jackson, Prince, Bette Midler, John Mellencamp, Bob Marley, David Byrne, Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Billy Idol, Joan Jett, Luther Vandross, George Michael, Lionel Richie, Hall & Oates, Kool and the Gang, the Simon & Garfunkel Reunion Tour, the 25th Anniversary of the Beatles Invasion of the United States, Queen, AC/DC, Kiss, Aerosmith, Genesis, Phil Collins, Styx, Supertramp, REO Speedwagon, Joan Armatrading, Simply Red, Chaka Khan, ZZ Top, Spirogyra, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and Run DMC.
Writings
Bloom has written two books, The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History and Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century. His publications in science range from "Conversation (dialog) model of quantum transitions" with George Malinetskii and Pavel Kurakin of the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences[2] and "The Xerox Effect: On the Importance of Pre-Biotic Evolution",[3] to "Instant evolution. The influence of the city on human genes: a speculative case".[4]
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