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Vivien Goldman is a London-born writer, broadcaster, adjunct professor and post-punk musician. She was a founding member of The Flying Lizards, shared a flat with fellow NME journalist and The Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde, wrote songs for artists such as Massive Attack, launched the video career of Flavor Flav, and penned the first biography of Bob Marley.

She released the "Dirty Washing EP" in 1981, with tracks produced by John Lydon and Adrian Sherwood.

In January 2007, BBC America began a regular Ask the Punk Professor feature on their website with Goldman answering questions and commenting on current events.

Goldman lived in Paris for a year and a half, where she was a member of new wave duo Chantage, which gained modest fame in France. In the early 1980s she began making documentaries for BBC's Channel Four, developing and producing the world-music show Big World Cafe.

Goldman lived in Paris for a year and a half, where she was a member of new wave duo Chantage, which gained modest fame in France.

She was a member of The Flying Lizards, shared a flat with fellow NME journalist and The Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde.

Goldman is listed in writing credits along with the band Massive Attack on the song "Sly". She was born in London, the child of two German-Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. The most recent of her five books is "The Book of Exodus: The Making and Meaning of Bob Marley and the Wailers' Album of the Century," (Three Rivers Press/Random House) which was described as "vivid and intimate" by Rolling Stone.  Her second book on Marley includes the brief period she spent as his PR at Island Records before the band was famous, right after her graduation from university in the early 1970s. 

After quitting Bob's PR to become a full-time journalist in the UK rock weeklies, Goldman continued a lengthy association with the label, covering many of their other artists such as Grace Jones, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Aswad, Burning Spear and U2.

Combined with her connections with the early US hiphop movement, as Def Jam was forming, Goldman's course offers a unique and revealing insight into the hugely influential history of Jamaica music -- and an entrée to parallel worlds that co-exist within popular music itself.

Early life and education

She was born in London, the child of two German-Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany.

She studied English and American literature at the University of Warwick. Goldman is also an accomplished documentarian and adjunct professor of punk and reggae at New York University's (NYU) Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music. Goldman was Bob Marley's first UK publicist, and Kid Creole's biographer.

Goldman is also an accomplished documentarian and adjunct professor of punk and reggae at New York University's (NYU) Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music.

The feature ran through 2008.

Goldman appears as an interviewee in the up-coming documentary about British reggae group, Steel Pulse.

Vivien Goldman is a British journalist, writer and musician.

She was a writer and editor for London-based Sounds magazine in the late 1970s. She previously developed and taught courses in Reggae and Punk for the Clive Davis Department. The EP appeared first on Ed Bahlman's iconic 99 Records imprint on 3 June 1981.

In August 1981, two of the tracks from the EP, "Launderette" and "Private Armies," were issued as a 7" single in the UK.

Later the song "Launderette" was included on Gomma Records' "Anti NY" compilation and the Chicks On Speed-produced Girl Monster collection.

Books

• The Book of Exodus: The Making and Meaning of Bob Marley and the Wailers' Album of the Century (2006)
• The Black Chord: Visions of the Groove: Connections between Afro-Beats, Rhythm and Blues, Hip Hop, and More (with David Corio) (1999)
• Pearl's Delicious Jamaican Dishes: Recipes from Pearl Bell's Repertoire (1992)
• Kid Creole and the Coconuts: Indiscreet (1984)
• Bob Marley, Soul Rebel - Natural Mystic (1981)

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