Bruce Eder

Bruce Eder was born in New York City in 1955, and attended school on Long Island. He graduated from Queens College (CUNY) as an English major in 1978 and was a journalist for 35 years, from 1978 until 2012, writing for the Aquarian Weekly, the Village Voice, Newsday, Current Biography, Goldmine, Video Magazine, Video Review, Video Business, Interview, and Oxford American. A casual film buff from a very early age, he realized a longtime goal in 1984 when he was engaged as a writer-in-residence at Janus Films. After several years of work behind the scenes, writing catalog copy and press releases, as well as learning some of the basics of film editing and related matters, he became a writer/producer/narrator for The Voyager Company and The Criterion Collection, doing audio commentaries on laserdisc and DVD. Those projects, in turn, led to a brief stint in 1992 doing the same kind of work for Republic Pictures (on laserdisc) for five film titles, including 'Orson Welles'' _Macbeth (1948)_, 'Raoul Walsh's' _Pursued (1947)_, and the 15-chapter serial _Nyoka And The Tigermen (1942)_. Additionally, he supervised the film-to-video transfers for the original VHS and laserdisc editions of the Beatles movie _Help! (1965)_, and supervised the first video restorations of _The Devil And Daniel Webster (1941)_ and _Richard III (1955)_. He also worked as a writer/producer at Sony Music Special Products from 1989 thru 1993, supervising and annotating reissue CDs of numerous MGM and United Artists soundtracks, as well as CD editions of classic recordings by the Yardbirds, the Small Faces, the Nice, Duncan Browne, and other late 1960s British artists; meanwhile, for ABKCO Records, he provided the session annotation that was used in the book that accompanied the original large-box edition of the Rolling Stones' set The Singles Collection; and for Polygram Classics, he annotated CD reissues of soundtrack music by 'Bernard Herrmann' and 'Miklos Rozsa', among other composers. As a writer, his work focused on print journalism until 1992, when he began a 20-year relationship with the All-Music Guide. In 2005, his extensive work in music and many articles about the band led to his writing the documentary _Classic Artists: The Moody Blues (2006)_. His last audio commentaries, from 2008 and 2013, respectively, have been for the Alexander Korda productions of _The Thief of Bagdad (1940)_ and _Things To Come (1936)_.