Chuck Eddy
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American journalist
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Communications
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#1521
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#495
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Journalism
#366
World Rank
#410
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#255
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Why Is Chuck Eddy Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Chuck Eddy is an American music journalist. Life and career Chuck Eddy was born in Detroit, Michigan. After starting his journalism career with The Village Voice and Creem, where he published one of the first national interviews with the Beastie Boys in the mid-1980s, Eddy then wrote for Rolling Stone, Spin, Entertainment Weekly and other national and local publications. He has authored four books: Stairway to Hell: The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums in the Universe, The Accidental Evolution of Rock and Roll, Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism, and Terminated for Reasons of Taste: Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music.