Producer Don Kirshner has died
Legendary US music producer Don Kirshner, once described as ``The man with the golden ear'' for his ability to detect and promote a hit record, has died.
Don Kirshner, the music mogul who shepherded the work of talented young songwriters to the top of the pop charts in the 1960s, launched the Monkees, then made his face familiar to millions of rock fans as impresario of his late-night live-music TV series in the 1970s, died Monday of heart failure in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 76.