Don Kirshner obituary

Pop svengali behind hits for the Monkees and the ArchiesIt irked Don Kirshner, who has died of heart failure aged 76, that he was never inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. "My body of work is as big as anyone's and nobody knows the half of it," he protested in 2004, at a time when he was planning a belated music-business comeback. But Kirshner's record will ultimately speak for itself. It spanned the heyday of New York's Brill Building (the mecca of pop in the 1950s and 60s), saw him...

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