Danny Fields

Biography

Danny Fields is a music industry executive and author born Daniel Feinberg on November 13, 1939, to a Jewish family in Richmond Hill, Queens. He played a pivotal role in shaping the history of punk rock, managing influential bands like Iggy and the Stooges, the MC5, and the Ramones, and worked with Jim Morrison, the Velvet Underground, and the Modern Lovers. His contributions to the genre are so significant that The New York Times declared him "essential" to its development.