Michael Brooks (music Historian)
Michael Brooks (1935 – November 20, 2020) was a British-born music historian, archivist, consultant, and producer. Biography Brooks was born in Tooting, London, and moved to New York City in 1966. He began his music career in 1971, assisting and producing records with John H. Hammond, John Hammond of Columbia Records. This collaboration resulted in many reissues of jazz, Pop music, pop, big band, and country music artifacts, currently on the Legacy Recordings label. In later life Brooks worked at Sony Music Entertainment as a consultant. He died in November 2020, aged 85.Xan Brooks, "Michael Brooks Obituary", ''The Guardian'', 29 November 2020
Retrieved 30 November 2020

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Tooting
Tooting is a district in South London, forming part of the London Borough of Wandsworth and partly in the London Borough of Merton. It is located south south-west of Charing Cross. History Tooting has been settled since pre- Saxon times. The name is of Anglo-Saxon origin but the meaning is disputed. It could mean ''the people of Tota'', in which context Tota may have been a local Anglo-Saxon chieftain. Alternatively it could be derived from an old meaning of the verb ''to tout'', to look out. There may have been a watchtower here on the road to London and hence ''the people of the look-out post.'' The Romans built a road, which was later named Stane Street by the English, from London (Londinium) to Chichester (Noviomagus Regnorum), and which passed through Tooting. Tooting High Street is built on this road. In Saxon times, Tooting and Streatham (then Toting-cum-Stretham) was given to the Abbey of Chertsey. Later, Suene (Sweyn), believed to be a Viking, may have been g ...
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