Acting
Andy Schwartz
Born
1951-08-17 (75)
Place of birth
New York, New York
Known for
Acting
Credits
2 titles
Andy Schwartz was born in Manhattan (8/17/51)and raised in the New York suburbs. At age 14, in a high school gym, he attended his first "rock concert" starring doo-wop masters Eugene Pitt & the Jive Five and a local Stones clone band called the Jagged Edge. He began writing about pop music circa 1972 as an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota. Shortly after returning to New York in 1977, Andy took over as publisher and editor of New York Rocker, the punk/new wave magazine founded by the late Alan Betrock (1950-2000). Under Schwartz's direction, NY Rocker published 44 issues through the end of 1982 and became the most widely-read and influential US publication of its kind. After sev…
Known for
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All That Jazz
1979
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Jay's Longhorn
2019