Sandy Pearlman (born August 8, 1943, Rockaway, Queens, New York, USA - died July 26, 2016, Marin County, California, USA) was an American music producer, artist manager, professor, poet, songwriter, and former record company executive.
He helped launch the careers of Blue Oyster Cult and The Dictators. He produced several albums for Blue Oyster Cult, and was also their manager. He produced The Clashs second album, Give Em Enough Rope. He managed Black Sabbath in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
He started out as a critic for pioneering rock music magazine Crawdaddy. He was among the first writers to use the term "heavy metal".
He was a visiting scholar at McGill Universitys Schulich School of Music and a fellow of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. He taught courses and gave lectures on digital music, the aesthetics of music production, and the similarities between classical music and heavy metal.
He served on the National Recording Preservation Board of the US Library of Congress, which conserves recordings deemed to have cultural, historical or aesthetic importance.
