Performance · Production
Lew Irwin
Lew Irwin is credited on 9 releases across 3 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1968–2003 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
9
Pressings credited
3
Albums
5
Decades active
1
In collections
Biography
Lew Irwin has been a Los Angeles–based journalist for more than 50 years. He was the original anchor/reporter at KABC-TV from 1957 to 1962 and the news director of Los Angeles radio stations KPOL, KRLA, KDAY, and KNX-FM. While at KRLA in the late 1960s, he created The Credibility Gap, a 15-minute news program, broadcast every three hours, that integrated topical satire and music with the news. He also has interviewed Presidents Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan, as well as such show business personalities as The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Frank Sinatra, David Bowie, Peter Sellers, Jack Nicholson, Dick Clark and Elvis Presley. He is the author of Sinatra, a Life Remembered, a coffee table book about Frank Sinatra and since 1992 has been the publisher/editor of the daily entertainment industry digest Studio Briefing.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
9 releases · 3 albums · active 1968–2003
- Performance · 8
- Production · 3
- Other credits · 1
Studios: Earth News Radio Show · The Roundhouse · Capital Radio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- David Ossman
- Flamin' Groovies
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