Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: A mụrụ Harvey Kubernik na Los Angeles. Ọ gara Fairfax High School na West Los Angeles College, ma gụsịrị akwụkwọ na San Diego State University na B.A. Special Major Degree (Health, Sociology, Literature). Ọ malitere ọrụ ya n'akwụkwọ akụkọ egwu na 1972. O mechara cheta na ọ gara nzukọ ndị ntaakụkọ na Los Angeles maka George Harrison's
Njem North America nke afọ 1974 nyeere ya aka n'ịmepụta ya n'ọrụ. Onye na-enye aka na "Los Angeles Free Press" n'oge ahụ, Kubernik nyere akụkọ nke ogbako mgbasa ozi nye onye nchịkọta akụkọ "Melody Maker" Ray Coleman, na London, nke dugara na akụkọ ihu akwụkwọ na ọrụ kwa izu maka magazin Britain site na 1975 ruo 1980.