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Larry Hicock is an award-winning author with a five-decade career in diverse media and roles: writer, podcaster, broadcast journalist, documentary producer/director, editorial consultant, marketer, serial entrepreneur. In 2022 he retired from his agency and free lance work to focus exclusively on his own projects.

His latest book is Raised On Rock And Roll: Stories From the Days When Rock Was Young.

Larry was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Non Fiction

    • Castles Made of Sound: The Story of Gil Evans. New York: Da Capo Press, 2002
    • Beware The Grieving Warrior. Toronto: ECW Press, 2004

  • Fiction

    • This Brother Is Free: a novel, 2012

  • Editorial/Consulting

    • Predictable Revenue (2nd edition), Aaron Ross & Marylou Tyler. Los Angeles: Pebblestorm, 2020
    • The District: Growing Up in Little Italy, Rose Grieco. Toronto: Gypsy Press, 2015
    • From Impossible to Inevitable: How Hyper-growth Companies Create Predictable Revenue, Aaron Ross & Jason Lemkin. Hoboken:John Wiley & Sons, 2016
    • Time One: Understanding Physics, Colin Gillespie, Winnipeg: Rosetta Books, 2013
    • This Changes Everything, Colin Gillespie, Winnipeg: Rosetta Books, 2012

  • Broadcast

    • Raised on Rock and Roll, podcast, writer-producer,-narrator, 2025
    • Take Me To Your Leader, podcast, writer-producer-narrator, 2020
    • Jazz Profiles, radio documentary, writer-producer, National Public Radio, 2000
    • Jazz Notes, 6-part radio documentary series, writer-producer-narrator. Toronto: CBC-Radio Canada, 1999
    • Ideas, 4-part radio documentary series, writer-producer. Winnipeg; CBC-Radio Canada, 1981

  • Documentary Film

    • Max Becoming Max, producer-director-editor. Ann Arbor: Alexander Street Productions, 2017
    • New Directions in Canadian Science and Technology, 6-part educational video series. Toronto: Live Line Media, 1996

LISTEN NOW

The Raised on Rock and Roll podcast is available now on Substack.

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