Robert Hilburn
Author · 2 books
Robert Hilburn (born 1939) is an American music journalist and biographer. For more than three decades, he worked as a pop music critic for the Los Angeles Times. As a reporter, he accompanied artists including Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Elton John, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, U2, and Johnny Cash. He wrote biographies of artists such as John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen. Hilburn attended Johnny Cash’s legendary prison concert at California’s Folsom State Prison, recorded for the live album At Folsom Prison. In 2003, shortly before their deaths, he conducted one of the last interviews with Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash.