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Preview ‘Ron Delsener Presents,’ New Documentary Film About the Legendary NYC Concert Promoter (Select Theaters May 30)
By Rock Cellar Staff
April 30, 2025
For decades, Ron Delsener left a mark on the New York City music scene, an industry titan largely credited with much of the high-profile concert promotion that went on in the region.
A new documentary film, aptly titled Ron Delsener Presents, will cover Delsener’s lasting legacy.
In select theaters May 30, the film is detailed as follows in press materials:
In a career spanning sixty years, concert promoter and impresario Ron Delsener was the name behind virtually every major contemporary music concert in New York City for generations. From promoting the Beatles at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, to bringing David Bowie to Carnegie Hall and Patti Smith to the Palladium, to somehow convincing Simon and Garfunkel to bury the hatchet and play the biggest concert of all time in Central Park, Ron Delsener was behind it all.
The documentary features archival footage and interviews with Delsener and many of the musical acts and artists who came into his powerful orbit, including Billy Joel, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt, Jon Bon Jovi, Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Lenny Kaye, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Lorne Michaels, Bette Midler, Jimmy Buffett, Cher, and more.
Here’s the trailer:
Please God let it be streamed world wide in one of those streamers (is that an actual word? LOL), so I can watch it.
All the people that matter in one documentary!!!!
And btw, my o my last wish as a Bettehead is to have delivered a documentary about Bette directed by Liz Garbus. No autobiographies, no biopics…Just one long and amazing documentary pleeeeaaaase!!!
Where is Martin when we need him? He could produce this one…