Tim Riley

Here and Now Rock Critic

Tim Riley writes for WBUR Online Arts. Tim Riley is the author of "Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary" which was hailed by the New York Times as bringing "new insight to the act we've known for all these years..." He has also written "Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary", "Madonna: Illustrated" and "Fever: How Rock'n'Roll Transformed Gender in America."

Riley has contributed to The Washington Post, Boston Magazine, The Boston Phoenix, The Village Voice, and many other publications. His work is widely used in college courses on pop culture, and he frequently lectures on college campuses about Censorship in the Arts and Rock History. As a noted Beatle scholar, Riley gave a keynote address at BEATLES 2000, the first international academic conference on the band in Finland. He is currently working on a major new biography of John Lennon for W.W.Norton.