Eliot Tiegel, Former Billboard Managing Editor, Dies at 84
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billboard.comEliot Tiegel, an author, former Los Angeles bureau chief and managing editor of Billboard and the husband of late Entertainment Tonight producer Bonnie Tiegel, has died.
He was 84. He died Tuesday of an apparent heart attack as he was about to leave his home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles to go for a walk, his stepson, Ken Kaplan, told The Hollywood Reporter.
A writer for more than 50 years, Tiegel covered music, records, radio, TV and films for Billboard and other publications; handled liner notes for albums recorded by the likes of Hugo Montenegro and Mel Tormé; and often was invited by Frank Sinatra and Quincy Jones into the studio to watch them work.
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