"Jon Landau" is an United States/American music critic, Talent manager/manager and record producer. He has worked with Bruce Springsteen in all three capacities. He is the head of the nominating committee for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Landau grew up in the Boston suburbs and earned a degree in History from Brandeis University with honors.

As a critic, Landau wrote for Rolling Stone from its first issue and for other publications. In Volume 1, Number 1 of Rolling Stone, published on 9 November 1967, Landau compared Jimi Hendrix and his debut album, Are You Experienced, to Eric Clapton and Cream (band)/Cream's debut album, Fresh Cream (both released months before, and both Hendrix and Cream having made huge American splashes as live performers that summer). The next few issues saw Landau staking out more traditional R&B and soul territory with profiles of Aretha Franklin, and Sam and Dave, plus a posthumous Otis Redding appreciation.

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We knew exactly what we wanted. We were not in it to do something average. We were not in it to get any particular song on the radio. We were in it to do something great.

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We had ambition to burn.

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I knew, because I knew the songs, that this album was going to be phenomenal.

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He didn't want to make a sequel. And he's never made a sequel. There was a culmination of part of his writing that he doesn't repeat.

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We're coming back to some of our favorite cities to make sure the fans get a chance to see how this tour has evolved over the course of the last 50 shows. Bruce just keeps stretching the boundaries of his performance night after night, and the result has been some of the very best concerts of his entire career.

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