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Nationality
  
American

Name
  
Domenic Priore


Role
  
Author

Education
  
Pasadena City College

Born
  
Domenic Priore 1960 Pasadena, California, United States (
1960
)

Occupation
  
Author, popular music and culture historian, documentary writer, television producer

Genre
  
American popular music, American popular culture

Subject
  
Psychedelia, counterculture of the 1960s

Notable works
  
Look! Listen! Smile! Vibrate!, Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece, Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock 'n' Roll's Last Stand in Hollywood

Books
  
Pacific Ocean Park: The, Smile: The Story of Brian Wil, Look Listen Vibrate Smile, Riot on Sunset Strip: Roc

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Domenic Priore (born 1960) is an American author, historian and television producer whose focus is on popular music and its attendant youth culture.

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Biography

He is regarded as an expert on The Beach Boys' Smile album, having written two books on the subject, Look! Listen! Smile! Vibrate! and Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece. In 2011, he contributed to the liner notes of The Smile Sessions compilation. He has also published a number of books and articles on the greater Los Angeles area's youth culture during the 1960s, with special focus on the surf craze and the Sunset Strip music scene.

Priore worked as the primary writer and creative consultant on the AMC documentaries Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955–1970) and Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s.

Publications

  • Priore, Domenic (1988). Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile: The Book about the Mysterious Beach Boys Album. Surfin' Colours Hollywood. 
  • Priore, Domenic (2005). Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece. London: Sanctuary. ISBN 1860746276. 
  • Chidester, Brian; Priore, Domenic (2008). Pop Surf Culture: Music, Design, Film, and Fashion from the Bohemian Surf Boom. Santa Monica Press. ISBN 978-1-59580-035-0. 
  • Priore, Domenic (2007). Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock'N'Roll's Last Stand in Hollywood. Jawbone Press. ISBN 978-1-906002-94-7. 
  • Merritt, Christopher; Priore, Domenic (2014). Pacific Ocean Park: The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles' Space Age Nautical Pleasure Pier. Process. ISBN 978-1-934170-52-6. 

    • Filmography

  • Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955–1970) (2000, hosted by Ringo Starr)
  • Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s (2002, hosted by David Bowie)

    • References

    Domenic Priore Wikipedia
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