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Edmonds was a onetime Rolling Stone, Metro Times, and Mojo writer as well as a successful record label executive. Crucially, he recognized the importance of bands like the MC5 and the Stooges when few others did — when they were still around, and did all he could to support them. His role in producing the work of the later James Williamson era of the Stooges remains unheralded. Edmonds' Marvin Gaye bio is exceptional, and a treatise on far more than just the Motown singer. I read it just last year, and couldn't put the thing down.
He was a truly great writer and by all accounts a very sweet, funny, and erudite guy. A Creem editor from 1971-75, Emonds died just days after John Morthland, another Creem editor and excellent writer, died in Austin.
