2018
November 8-11, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey
The Beatles’ THE WHITE ALBUM: 50th Anniversary Celebration
An International Symposium
Conference Theme: “Producing an Enigma for the Ages”
2017
June 1-4, University of Michigan
Sgt. Pepper at 50 Conference
with Ken Scott, Kenneth Womack and John Covach
[watch this space]
2016
November 17, 7:00 pm, Cook Theatre, Cloud County Community College
2221 Campus Drive
Concordia, KS 66901
Admission: FREE!
2014
October 25, 2pm, First Parish Church, Harvard Square
George Clinton Interview
Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard on You?: A Memoir
November 6, 7pm, Framingham Public Library
Fever: How Rock Transformed Gender
November 16, 2pm, Bedford Free Public Library
Fever: How Rock Transformed Gender
May 8, 7pm, Framingham Public Library
Lennon: Life and Myth
(Rescheduled from February 13)
Main Library, Costin Room
March 2, 2pm, Bedford Free Public Library
Do the Beatles Still Matter?
2013
December 6, 2013, 4pm
Live Lennon memorial shindig
April 28, 4pm
Bemis Lectures, Lincoln, MA: Lennon
Feb 8, 7pm
Porter Square Books, Cambridge: Interviewing Peter Hook
(Joy Division, New Order)
Dec 11
Newton Free Library, Newton MA
Nov 27
Davidson College, North Carolina
October 4
Writing Lives in Music
Massachusetts Historical Society panel with Judith Tick, Northeastern University; Jan Swafford, The Boston Conservatory; and Tim Riley, Emerson College. Moderator: Megan Marshall, Emerson College
June 7
92Y Tribeca
June 8
Luncheon Society of Manhattan
May 25
Luncheon Society, Harvard Square
May 15
Arlington Community Ed Center
May 11
Jeff Santos Show, Revolution Radio, AM 1510
May 8
Weston Library
April 27-28
Newburyport Literary Festival
March 31
Newton Free Library, Massachusetts
March 23-25
Fest for Beatle Fans
2011:
December 1, 7pm: Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA
November 8, 7pm: Odyssey Bookshop, South Hadley, MA
November 3, 6pm: Gibson’s Bookstore, Concord, NH
October 31: Concord Festival of Authors, Concord, MA
October 15: Boston Book Festival, Copley Square, click here for audio.
October 13, 7pm: Barnes and Noble, 82nd and Broadway, NYC
October 11, 4pm: Barnes and Noble, 114 Boylston Street, Boston
October 4, 11am: On Point with Tom Ashbrook, click here for audio
October 2, 3pm: Concord Bookshop, Concord, MA
October 1, 7:30pm: Dix Hills Performing Arts Center, Five Towns College, Long Island, Contact: 516-535-2010
September 30, 2pm: WNYC’s SOUNDCHECK (live broadcast), click here for audio
For more appearances consult JFS Speakers
riley biography
NPR CRITIC and EMERSON COLLEGE Journalist TIM RILEY reviews pop and classical music for NPR’s HERE AND NOW and ON POINT, and has written for the NEW YORK TIMES, HUFFINGTON POST, SLATE.COM and SALON.COM. He studied piano and English at Oberlin and Eastman.
The New York Times hailed his first book, Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (Knopf/Vintage 1988), for bringing “new insight to the act we’ve known for all these years…” He has since authored Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary (Knopf/Vintage/Da Capo 1992/2002), Madonna: Illustrated (Hyperion 1992), and Fever: How Rock’n’Roll Transformed Gender (Picador 2005).
Since 1990, Riley has given hundreds of lively multi-media presentations at colleges and cultural centers like New York’s Chautauqua Festival on “Censorship in the Arts,” and “Rock History.” He gave a keynote address at BEATLES 2000, the first international academic conference in Jyvaskyla, Finland, and lectured as Brown University’s Critic-In-Residence in 2008.
In 2009, Emerson College appointed Riley assistant professor of digital journalism. His current projects include the RILEY ROCK INDEX.com, music’s metaportal, blog riley at the prestigious ArtsJournal.com, and a new speech on social media and Wikileaks, “Let Freedom Leak.” Click on “Browse” above for more pages.
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