Gary Stromberg

Gary Stromberg co-founded GIBSON & STROMBERG, a large and influential music public relations firm of the sixties and seventies. The company represented such luminaries as The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Muhammad Ali, Barbra Streisand, Boyz II Men, Neil Diamond, Ray Charles, The Doors, Earth, Wind & Fire, Elton John, Three Dog Night and Crosby, Stills, & Nash. He also spent time in the film business co-producing movies such as Car Wash (Universal Studios) and The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh (Lorimar/United Artists). Stromberg has also written three books, The Harder They Fall (Hazelden - 2007) and Feeding the Fame (Hazelden - 2009) and a third book for McGraw-Hill Publishing, entitled Second Chances, which was published in 2011. He's currently working on a fourth book, She's Come Undone, for HCI Publishing, which will come out next spring.

Articles by Gary Stromberg

"Hey, Cancer, You In There?"

ByGary Stromberg

September 9th 2019

"If cancer wants to come after me again, it better be ready to fight!"

My Journey Through Acute Myeloid Leukemia With My Friend

ByGary Stromberg

August 23rd 2019

What are the odds that my friend, Michael, would be afflicted with the same rare disease that I had?

Laughing From My Belly: How Humor Helped My Cancer Recovery

ByGary Stromberg

August 17th 2019

Some of the greatest doctors in the world were responsible for my survival and recovery from acute myeloid leukemia…but the Three Stooges, W.C Fields, Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy and The Marx Brothers played a major role as well.

What Nobody Ever Wants to Hear

ByGary Stromberg

March 12th 2019

Helping others is the last phase of recovery.

On Jackie Robinson and Bone Marrow Transplants

ByGary Stromberg

May 18th 2018

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”

Meeting the Man Behind the Bone Marrow

ByGary Stromberg

April 5th 2018

After extensive chemo treatment was completed, intended to kill all the leukemic cells in my sick body, a courier was sent to Israel to collect the harvested marrow from my donor, and immediately fly it back to the U.S. where I was to be infused.