William Bender (May 30, 1930 – May 4, 2014) was an American music critic who reviewed for the "American Record Guide".
 A former music critic with the "New York Herald Tribune" and the "World Journal Tribune", he was chief music critic for "Time" magazine from 1968-1978.
 He is the author of the Emmy Award winning documentary on Leopold Stokowski which aired on the National Educational Television and BBC networks in 1970.
 He is the co-author of the 1974 book "The Tenors" in which he profiled the life and career of opera singer Richard Tucker.
Ian McFarlane (born 1959) is an Australian music journalist, music historian and author, whose best known publication is the "Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop" (1999).
 As a journalist he started in 1984 with "Juke", a rock music newspaper.
 During the early 1990s he worked for Roadrunner Records while he published a music guide, "The Australian New Music Record Guide Volume 1: 1976–1980" (1992).
 He followed with two fanzines, "Freedom Train" and "Prehistoric Sounds", both issued during 1994 to 1996.
 McFarlane's "The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop" is described by the "Australian Music Guide" as "the most exhaustive and wide-ranging encyclopedia of Australian music from the 1950s onwards".
 Subsequently, he was a writer for "The Australian" and worked for Raven Records, a reissue specialist label, preparing compilations, writing liner notes and providing research.
 He fulfilled a similar role at Aztec Music from 2004 to March 2012.
 From July 2013 he has been a contributor to "Addicted to Noise", writing a column.
Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 <nowiki>[</nowiki>OS 7 September]  – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.
 Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and is described by the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".
 He is also the subject of the biography, "The Life of Samuel Johnson" by James Boswell.
Samuel Joseph Johnson {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 1978) is an Australian actor, radio presenter, voiceover artist and philanthropist.
 He is best known for his roles as Evan Wylde in the television series "The Secret Life of Us" for which he won the AFI award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Telefeature in 2001, Leon Broznic in "Rush", Toby Kirby in "After the Deluge" and as Molly Meldrum in the miniseries "Molly" for which he won the AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama and won the Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality on Television of 2017.
Molly: Do Yourself a Favour is the soundtrack to the two-part Australian miniseries "Molly", which screened on the Seven Network in February 2016.
 The miniseries tells the story of Ian "Molly" Meldrum, an Australian music critic, journalist, record producer and musical entrepreneur.
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century is a 2007 nonfiction book by the American music critic Alex Ross, first published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
 It received widespread critical praise in the U.S., garnering a National Book Critics Circle Award, a spot on the "New York Times" list of the ten best books of 2007, and a finalist citation for the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction.
 The book was also shortlisted for the 2008 Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction.
Ian Alexander "Molly" Meldrum AM (born 29 January 1943) is an Australian popular music critic, journalist, record producer and musical entrepreneur.
 He was the talent co-ordinator, on-air interviewer and music news presenter on the former popular music program "Countdown" (1974–87) and is widely recognised for his trademark Stetson hat, which he has regularly worn in public since the 1980s (it is commonly mistaken for an Akubra).
 On 15 December 2011, Meldrum had a life-threatening fall from a ladder in the backyard of his Melbourne home.
 He was placed under intensive care in a critical condition at the Alfred Hospital and had surgery for his head and spinal injuries.
 By April 2012 he had recovered enough to give interviews and resume work duties.
Characters of Shakespear's Plays is an 1817 book of criticism of Shakespeare's plays, written by early nineteenth century English essayist and literary critic William Hazlitt.
 Composed in reaction to the neoclassical approach to Shakespeare's plays typified by Samuel Johnson, it was among the first English-language studies of Shakespeare's plays to follow the manner of German critic August Wilhelm Schlegel, and, with the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, paved the way for the increased appreciation of Shakespeare's genius that was characteristic of later nineteenth-century criticism.
 It was also the first book to cover all of Shakespeare's plays, intended as a guide for the general reader.
Samuel Johnson: A Life is a prize-winning biography of 18th-century English lexicographer Samuel Johnson by British literary critic David Nokes.
 It was published on October 27, 2009, shortly before the author's death.
 Building on earlier work by scholars Robert DeMaria, Walter Jackson Bate, Lawrence Lipking and Peter Martin, many critics lauded "Samuel Johnson: A Life" as a significant step forward in Johnsonian biography and criticism.
 In the biography, Nokes challenges James Boswell's significance in Dr. Johnson's life, writing that "Johnson wished to keep...his acknowledged biographer at a distance" and even second-guessed his "annointment" of Boswell as his official biographer.
Sarah Lewitinn (born February 3, 1980), also known by her nickname Ultragrrrl, is an Egyptian-American record producer, music critic, DJ, blogger, and music director for the Canadian fashion brand, Aritzia.
 She began her career as an assistant editor at "Spin Magazine", and soon helped champion rock bands like My Chemical Romance and The Killers, which led to her starting her own record label, Stolen Transmission.
 In 2006, "New York" magazine named Lewitinn as one of the most "influential people in music", citing that "Like it or not, she has more power than any print music critic."
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Question: Samuel Johnson played which Australian music critic and record producer in 2017?
Answer: Ian Alexander "Molly" Meldrum AM