Paul Steven Zollo (born August 9, 1958) is a songwriter, singer and recording artist for Trough Records. He has also authored many books, is a photographer and music journalist. He was the Senior Editor of

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magazine for 24 years. The books he's written include "Songwriters On Songwriting," "More Songwriters On Songwriting," "Conversations with Tom Petty, Expanded Edition," "Hollywood Remembered," "Schirmer's Complete Rhyming Dictionary" and "The Beginning Songwriter's Answer Book." Presently he's at work on a book about Paul Simon and also a collection of his unique portraiture in photography called "Angeleno." The leader of the L.A. band The Ghosters, with whom he made one self-titled album of his original songs in 1984, he's made two solo albums, Orange Avenue (which features a duet with the legendary Art Garfunkel on the song "Being in this World.") He has written songs with many songwriters and artists, including

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, Steve Allen,

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, Bob Malone, Stephen Kalinich, and Severin Browne.

Journalist

Zollo was the editor of '' SongTalk'' magazine for many years, and went on to become Senior Editor of ''

'' magazine and Managing Editor of '' Performing Songwriter'' magazine. He has also contributed articles to many magazines including ''

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'', '' Music Connection'', and '' Campus Circle''.

Personal life

His father, Burt Zollo, was also a writer, the author of three books (''The Dollars & Sense of Public Relations'' cGraw Hill ''Prisoners, A Novel'' hicago Academy Press and ''State & Wacker, A Novel''

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and many magazine essays and articles. A former colleague of

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issue, under the pseudonym "Bob Norman".

Bibliography

*''The Beginning Songwriter's Answer Book'' (1990) *''Songwriters on Songwriting'' *''Songwriters on Songwriting (Expanded Edition)'' (2003) * ''Hollywood Remembered (An Oral History of Its Golden Age)'' (2002) *''Conversations with Tom Petty'' (2005) *''Sunset & Cahuenga (A Novel)'' *''The Schirmer's Complete Rhyming Dictionary''. (2007) *''More Songwriters on Songwriting'' (2016) *''Conversations with Tom Petty'', Expanded Edition' (2020)

References

External links

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Zollo's own website, Bluerailtoad:
online magazine bluerailroad.com
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