Andy Schwartz

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1951-08-17 (74 years old)

Place of Birth

New York, New York

Andy Schwartz

Biography

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 ...

Acting

1979

All That Jazz

as Rock Band Guitar

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