Cheetah
Debut issue cover
FounderEllen Willis
FoundedOctober 1967 (1967-10)
Final issueMay 1968 (1968-05)

Cheetah was an American rock music and counterculture magazine launched in October 1967.[1] Although influential, its run was short-lived,[2] closing in May 1968.[1] Published by Matty Simmons, the founder of Diners Club,[3] and his partner Len Mogel, Cheetah was the first project of their Twenty First Century Communications Inc. Following the close of the magazine, Simmons joined the leadership team of National Lampoon, even co-producing the 1978 box office hit comedy Animal House with Ivan Reitman.[4]

Acting as Cheetah's first editor was novelist-journalist Jules Siegel, briefly an associate of Beach Boys songwriter Brian Wilson,[5] although he was soon replaced by Larry Dietz, assisted by Ellen Willis.[6] At the time, a girlfriend of fellow Cheetah writer and music critic Robert Christgau, Willis went on to become the first rock critic for The New Yorker[7] and later wrote for Rolling Stone, Village Voice, and other papers.[8]

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References

  1. ^ a b "Cheetah articles, interviews and reviews". Rock's Backpages. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  2. ^ Bennett, Andy; Waksman, Steve (2015). The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music. SAGE Publications. p. 444. ISBN 978-1-4739-1099-7.
  3. ^ "Magazines: Grownups in Hippieland". Time. TIME USA, LLC. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
  4. ^ Nashawaty, Chris. "Building Animal House". Entertainment Weekly. Dotdash Meredith. Archived from the original on 8 February 2007. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
  5. ^ Siegel, Jules. "Goodbye Surfing, Hello God!". Atavist. Automattic. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
  6. ^ Christgau, Robert. "Fining A Hole (Or Wikipedia)". And It Don't Stop. Substack. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
  7. ^ Willis, Ellen (1 May 2011). Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. p. 272. ISBN 978-0-8166-7283-7. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
  8. ^ Lindberg, Ulf (2005). Rock Criticism from the Beginning: Amusers, Bruisers, and Cool-headed Cruisers. Peter Lang. p. 186. ISBN 978-0-8204-7490-8.


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