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Peter Mayer

Peter Mayer is credited on 78 releases across 40 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1984–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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78

Pressings credited

40

Albums

5

Decades active

59

In collections

Biography

Peter Michael Mayer (28 March 1936 – 11 May 2018) was a British-born American independent publisher who was president of The Overlook Press/Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc., a Woodstock, New York–based publishing company he founded with his father in 1971. At the time of Overlook's founding, Mayer was head of Avon Books, a large New York–based paperback publisher. From 1978 to 1996, Mayer was CEO of Penguin Books, where he introduced a flexible style in editorial, marketing, and production. During his tenure, he was credited with reviving the company into "the most formidable and admired publisher in the English language". Recently, Mayer financially revived both Ardis, a publisher of Russian literature in English, and Duckworth, an independent publishing house in the UK.

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Credited work

78 releases · 40 albums · active 1984–2026

  • Performance · 189
  • Other credits · 4
  • Production · 3
  • Engineering · 1

Studios: Studio 88, St. Louis · Mad Hatter Studios · Secret Sound, Los Angeles · A&M Studios

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