Bob Garcia, Longtime A&M Records Executive, Dies at 81
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variety.comBy Tim Gray Senior Vice President Bob Garcia, former director of artist relations at A&M Records and West Coast president of the Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, died of natural causes at his home in Tujunga, Calif.
on April 26. It was a week before his 82nd birthday. After serving in the U.S. Army in the mid-1960s, Garcia moved to Los Angeles, working as a journalist in the fashion industry, and then a writer and editors for underground newspaper Open City.
Simultaneously, he wrote criticism about the rock music scene; including reviews of Pink Floyd, Tim Buckley, Phil Ochs, the Fugs and the Mothers of Invention.
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