Timothy White (January 25, 1952 – June 27, 2002) was an American rock music journalist and editor.
White began his journalism career as a writer for the Associated Press, but soon gravitated towards music writing. He was an editor for the rock magazine Crawdaddy in the late 1970s and a senior editor for Rolling Stone magazine in the early 1980s, where he wrote an article detailing the destruction of Bob Hope's face in a logging accident when Hope was in his teens, accounting for Hope's unusual nose and jaw.
White was editor-in-chief of Billboard beginning in 1991. </blockquote>
White wrote several music-related biographies, including books on the Beach Boys, Bob Marley and James Taylor, as well as several collections of columns and short pieces.
He also hosted and co-produced a nationally syndicated radio series, "Timothy White's Rock Stars/The Timothy White Sessions".
White remained editor-in-chief of Billboard until 2002, when he died of a heart attack. He was 50 years old.
Selected bibliography
- Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1983
- Rock stars, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, New York, 1984
- Rock Lives: Profiles and Interviews, Henry Holt & Co, 1990
- The Nearest Far Away Place: Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, and the Southern California Experience, Henry Holt, NY, 1994
- Music to My Ears: The Billboard Essays, Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1996
- The Entertainers, Billboard Books, NY, 1998
- Mellencamp: Paintings and Reflections, Harper Perennial, 1998
- James Taylor Long Ago and Far Away, Omnibus Press, 2001
- The Marshall Mathers LP, Eminem, 2000