Danny Fields is mostly known for his influence and contribution to punk rock music via management. Bands he formerly managed include MC5 (for $20,000), The Stooges (signed as the brother band of MC5 for $5,000), Ramones (with Linda Stein, former wife of Sire Records president Seymour Stein), Steve Forbert (with Linda Stein), Jonathan Richman (with Steve Paul), Modern Lovers (with Steve Paul), and Paleface. Other bands he managed with Stein included the ExHusbands and Shrapnel. Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... The MC5 was a rock music band that came out of Detroit, USA in 1966, and was an important precursor of and influence on punk rock (see protopunk). ... Not to be confused with The Three Stooges. ... The Ramones (L-R, Johnny, Tommy, Joey, Dee Dee) on the cover of their debut self-titled album (1976), cementing their place at the dawn of the punk movement. ... Linda Stein was a former schoolteacher who is most recognized for managing the Ramones with Danny Fields. ... American record label, Sire Records Company was founded in 1966 as Sire Productions by Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer. ... Seymour Stein is an entrepreneur in the music industry whose career spans from the 50s onwards. ... Steve Forbert, born in 1954 in Meridian, Mississippi, could easily be classified as a one-hit wonder for his song Romeos Tune, which reached number 9 on the Billboard chart in 1980. ... Jonathan Richman (born May 15, 1951) is an American proto-punk icon and one of the progenitors of indie rock. ... Led by Jonathan Richman, the protopunk band The Modern Lovers came out of Massachusetts in the early 1970s. ... Paleface is a usually insulting term for white people used by some Native Americans. ...

Danny was a former employee of Electra Records, where in addition to the MC5 and the Stooges he worked with The Doors, and Arthur Lee and Love. He is a former executive at Atlantic Records. Danny Fields also edited 16 Magazine and worked as a columnist for SoHo Weekly News. Elektra Records is a record label started in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickholt, who both invested $300. ... The Doors, Legacy (Clockwise from top right): Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek The Doors (formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California) were a popular and influential American rock band. ... Arthur Lee is the enigmatic and volatile frontman, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of the legendary Los Angeles psychedelic band Love, best known for the critically revered 1967 album, Forever Changes. ... Love was an American rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... Atlantic Records (Atlantic Recording Corporation) is a record label founded in 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson, principally as a R&B label. ...

For more information or interesting stories about Danny Fields and punk rock bands of the 1970s read Please Kill Me: the Uncensored Oral History of Punk (ISBN 0140266909) by Legs McNeil. Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... The 1970s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1970 and 1979. ... Co-Founder and writer of Punk Magazine, Legs McNeil was also a features editor at Spin magazine and editor in chief of Nerve. ...

External links

• Picture of Danny Fields at Ehrensteindland