Gary Pig Gold
- January 11, 2024
- Songwriter
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Gary Pig Gold Biography
| Birthday | May 30 |
| Birth Year | 1955 |
Gary Pig Gold is one of the most popular and richest Songwriter who was born on May 30, 1955 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Under this nom de plume, Gold began self-publishing The Pig Paper in 1973 and distributing it by mail to friends. Visiting London two years later he met Joe Strummer, then leading The 101ers, who encouraged Gold to continue his writing. That winter, he published a mock concert program commemorating an appearance by The Who in Toronto, and in 1977 a similar Pig Paper on The Kinks became the first issue to be made available outside of Canada, when Gold followed the band to a concert and record signing in Buffalo, New York.
Concurrently, he continued writing, for Visible Ink Press’s Music Hound Essential Album Guide series, as well as Bubblegum Music Is the Naked Truth, Encounters With Bob Dylan, Lost in the Grooves, Paul McCartney: I Saw Him Standing There, TV A-Go-Go, Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk in Toronto and Beyond 1977–1981, and The Little Black Book of Music. His syndicated “Pigshit” column continues to run monthly online, having first appeared in Los Angeles’ Flipside (fanzine) in 1979. He was also a featured interview subject in the Jandek on Corwood documentary film.
Gary Pig Gold Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Songwriter |
| House | Living in own house. |
Gary Pig Gold is one of the richest Songwriter from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gary Pig Gold 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Gary Pig Gold (born May 30, 1955 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a singer- songwriter, record producer, filmmaker, author and journalist. His fanzine The Pig Paper was Canada’s second independently published music magazine, and among the recording artists he has worked with are Pat Boone, Dave Rave, Endless Summer, Simply Saucer and Shane Faubert. Gold has written many books on popular music and has contributed to dozens of magazines as well as seven books in the multi-genre MusicHound album guide series. AllMusic describes him as “rock music’s all-time hardest-working man … with all apologies to James Brown”.
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Gold meanwhile produced two albums for Shane Faubert, formerly of The Cheepskates, at Dubway Studios. With Shane, he began the To M’Lou Music label in 1998, releasing the acclaimed debut album of the Los Angeles band The Masticators as well as He’s a Rebel: The Gene Pitney Story Retold, which included exclusive recordings by Billy Cowsill, Mick Farren, Gordon Waller and Al Kooper. Gold contributed tracks himself to the Bullseye Records of Canada Men In Plaid Bay City Rollers tribute album as well as singing alongside Jim Carroll for Back to The Streets: Celebrating the Music of Don Covay, and with Andrew Loog Oldham on the 1993 issue of Alex Chilton’s Bach’s Bottom album.
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Geoff Ranked on the list of most popular Songwriter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Gary Pig Gold celebrates birthday on May 30 of every year.