Peter Goddard (journalist)

Peter Darwin Goddard (born July 13, 1943 - March 24, 2022 in Toronto, Ontario)The Canadian Encyclopedia
Biography of Peter Goddard
Retrieved 2015-12-23. was a Canadian music journalist.

History

Peter Goddard was a pupil of Margaret Butler (piano) at The Royal Conservatory of Music and of Mieczyslaw Kolinski (musicology) and Gustav Ciamaga (electronic music) at the University of Toronto. Goddard played piano in a succession of Toronto rock groups, then began his career as a journalist in 1966 concurrently with studying music. He obtained Bachelor and Master degrees in music in 1967 and 1971, respectively.

From 1966 to 1988, Goddard held positions as the pop music critic for ''The Globe and Mail''(1966-67) the ''Toronto Telegram''(1968-71) and the ''Toronto Star''(1972-88). He received the 1972 Juno Award as Journalist of The Year.

Goddard maintained an ongoing association with the ''Toronto Star'', for which he continued to write in other editorial capacities.

Goddard also has written for many magazines (Maclean's, Saturday Night, RPM, Canadian Composer, etc) and is the author of the biography Frank Sinatra (Don Mills, Ont, 1973) and the novel The Sounding (Toronto 1988), and co-author with Ronnie Hawkins of Ronnie Hawkins: Last of the Good Old Boys (Toronto 1989). With the Toronto photographer Philip Kamin, Goddard collaborated on 10 books, published 1982-6 in Toronto, documenting concert tours during the early and mid-1980s by the Rolling Stones, the Who, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Genesis, Michael Jackson, the Police, Van Halen, the Cars, and Cyndi Lauper. Goddard also edited The Video Hits Book (Toronto 1986, for the CBC-TV series 'Video Hits') and with Kamin co-edited the collection of essays Shakin' All Over: The Rock 'N' Roll Years in Canada (Toronto 1989).

Goddard passed away on March 24, 2022.

Publications

Non-Fiction

*1989 ''Ronnie Hawkins - Last of The Good Ol' Boys'' (with Ronnie Hawkins) ( Stoddart)
*1989 ''Shakin' All Over: The Rock 'n' Roll Years in Canada'' (with Philip Kamin, as co-editor) (McGraw-Hill)
*1986 ''The Video Hits Book'' (with Philip Kamin) (CBC Enterprises)
*1986 ''The Cars'' (with Philip Kamin) (McGraw-Hill)
*1986 ''Triumph: The Book'' (with Philip Kamin) (Goddard and Kamin Publishing)
*1986 ''Cyndi Lauper'' (with Philip Kamin) (McGraw-Hill)
*1984 ''Michael Jackson & The Jacksons Live On Tour In '84'' (with Philip Kamin) (St. Martin's Press)
*1984 ''Van Halen'' (with Philip Kamin) (Stoddart)
*1984 ''Duran Duran Live'' (with Philip Kamin) (St. Martin's Press)
*1984 ''Genesis: Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins and Beyond'' (with Philip Kamin; introduction by Phil Collins) (Beaufort)
*1984 ''The Police Chronicles'' (with Philip Kamin) ( Musson)
*1984 ''Springsteen Live'' (with Philip Kamin) (Stoddart)
*1983 ''David Bowie - Out of The Cool'' (with Philip Kamin) (Beaufort)
*1983 ''The Who - The Farewell Tour'' (with Philip Kamin) (Musson)
*1982 ''The Rolling Stones: The Last Tour'' (with Philip Kamin) (Olympia)
*1973 ''Frank Sinatra - The Man, The Myth and The Music'' ( Greywood)Augustine Funnell Books
Overview of Peter Goddard, ''Frank Sinatra - The Man, The Myth and The Music''
Retrieved 2015-12-29.
*2017 ''The Great Gould'' (Dundurn Press)

Fiction

*1989 ''The Sounding'' ( General Publishing)

References

1943 births
Living people
Canadian male journalists
Journalists from Toronto

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