Rock promoter Don Kirshner dies at age 76
Don Kirshner, a rock promoter and music publisher who helped garner hits for the make-believe groups The Monkees and The Archies and boosted the careers of Billy Joel, Neil Diamond and the Police, has died. He was 76. Kirshner, whom Time magazine once dubbed "The Man with the Golden Ear," was in a hospital in Boca Raton, Fla., being treated for an infection when he died on Monday.
