Short answers, pulled from the story.
Al Aronowitz was an American rock journalist born on the 20th of May 1928 in Bordentown, New Jersey. He is best known for introducing Bob Dylan to the Beatles in a New York City hotel room on the 28th of August 1964, and for his own journal entries claiming he also introduced the Beatles to marijuana at that meeting.
Al Aronowitz introduced Bob Dylan to the Beatles on the 28th of August 1964 in a New York City hotel room.
Al Aronowitz was the original manager of the Velvet Underground and booked their first gig in the auditorium of the high school in Summit, New Jersey. The band dropped him as manager weeks later when they met Andy Warhol, and also stole his tape recorder.
The New York Post fired Aronowitz in 1972 for conflict of interest because he was managing bands at the same time he was writing the Pop Scene column about the music industry.
Aronowitz self-published two books: Bob Dylan and the Beatles and Bobby Darin Was a Friend of Mine. A third book, Mick and Miles, about Mick Jagger and Miles Davis, was never completed.
Al Aronowitz died of cancer in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on the 1st of August 2005, at the age of 77.