Bill Flanagan is an author, television executive, and radio host. He hosts the shows "Flanagan's Wake," "Written In My Soul," "The Fab Fourum," and "Northern Songs" on Sirius XM Radio. He also regularly appears on CBS News "Sunday Morning."Flanagan was an executive at MTV Networks, and was Executive Vice President of the Viacom Music Group when he retired in 2015. Flanagan's work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Esquire, Spy, Men's Journal, Vanity Fair, GQ, Commonweal, The New Yorker, and The Village Voice. He has published seven non-fiction books on music history.