Michael Goldstein (June 7, 1938 – May 19, 2018) was an American music publicist and journalist who was the founder of the SoHo Weekly News, an alternative newspaper published in New York City from 1973 to 1982.
[1] As a music publicist, his clients included Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone,[3] Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Janis Joplin,[4] Frank Zappa, Jefferson Airplane, and the Grateful Dead.
[1][3] That garden was the setting for a photograph by Allan Tannenbaum of Patti Smith posing in a wading pool with her underpants pulled down.
[5] According to Ohta, Goldstein came to start the News "after being burnt out by a successful career in public relations.
He worked for CBS News as a reporter, and had a role in Woody Allen's 1980 movie, Stardust Memories.