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SOUL SURVIVOR: How I Became the First and Last White R&B Editor of Billboard MagazineEd Ochs with The Supremes
Published April 17, 2014

SOUL SURVIVOR: How I Became the First and Last White R&B Editor of Billboard Magazine

I was 22 in 1967 when I hired as a cub reporter by Billboard magazine, “the bible of the music business,” in New York City. While I had greater aspirations as a writer than writing for Billboard, Billboard was my best opportunity for a job after many failed attempts upon graduating college and waiting anxiously for months for the job to finally materialize.

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