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FILTER RESULTS ►Americana Awards Nominees Announced: Shovels and Rope, Emmylou Harris, Buddy Miller Shine
The nominees for the Americana Music Awards and Honors was announced today from the Grammy Museum’s Clive Davis Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. The one-hour ceremony was carried live on AXS TV and featured performances by Jim Lauderdale and Buddy Miller (with a tribute to the late George Jones) Lisa Marie Presley backed by T [...]Show More Summary
"Two bisexual activists... recommended casual 'water cooler' ways of bringing up your sexual identity through current events."
"'I was thrilled to hear that Clive Davis came out as bisexual, being bisexual myself,' or 'Did you hear that same-sex couples will soon be able to marry in Delaware? It means a lot to me since I’m bisexual.'" From a NYT column attempting...Show More Summary
The Right Profile Lives Again (for About 15 Minutes)
A long time ago, I played in a rock band, called The Right Profile. It was a great deal of fun. We wound up getting a record deal with Arista. Here's a picture of us with Clive Davis, who was willing to take this picture pretending we'd already gotten a gold record (I'm the guy shaking his hand): But I quit the band about a year later. Show More Summary
Rapper Clive Aden Seeks to Overcome His Circumstances
By Patrick James
It's Friday evening at L.A.'s Grammy Museum, whose walls are hung with iconic rock photographs and shelved with pop artifacts. On stage in the museum's Clive Davis Theater is an...
Jennifer Hudson: Grammys On The Hill Award Honoree!
Jennifer Hudson poses for a photograph with Clive Davis at the Grammys On The Hill Award ceremony held at the Hamilton Live on Wednesday (April 17) in Washington, D.C. The 31-year-old entertainer, who was honored at the event, was joined by President and CEO of The Recording Academy, Neil Portnow, Daryl Friedman, and President of [...]
Don Silver: The TVD Interview
When someone like legendary music mogul Clive Davis writes yet another tome extolling his endless virtues and successes, critical backlash is inevitable and satisfying. But what you probably wouldn’t expect is a response that’s kind yet honest; heartbreaking, yet fascinating. Don Silver is an everyman music fiend who finessed his way into a dream job. [...]
Power List 2013: CLIVE DAVIS
Sony Music Executive, 81Music industry icon Davis, who helped make the careers of Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen, and Kelly Clarkson, talked about his sexuality for the first time in early February. In his memoir, Davis revealedShow More Summary
Debating The Concept Of Golden Ears With Clive Davis
Clive Davis sat down with me last month to discuss his autobiography, The Soundtrack of My Life, which is now in its fifth week on the New York Times Best Sellers list. In addition to discussing his memoir, though, the legendary music executive spent some time talking about the notion of 'Golden Ears,' a concept that's mentioned frequently in his book.
Anthony DeCurtis, Clive Davis: Music Journalist Talks 'Soundtrack of My Life' -- EXCLUSIVE Interview
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Journalists are usually the ones asking the questions, but legendary scribe Anthony DeCurtis has done enough in his 25-plus-years covering music that he can have the tables turned on him every once in aShow More Summary
David Finkle: Easy Reader: Record Mogul Clive Davis Tells All -- and He Means All -- in The Soundtrack of My Life
Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Aretha Franklin and Alicia Keys all receive attention in the voluminous catchall -- discussed in relation to Davis's abiding belief that what fuels the music business first, last and always is the hit song.
David Finkle: Easy Reader: Record Mogul Clive Davis Tells All -- and He Means All -- in The Soundtrack of My Life
Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Aretha Franklin and Alicia Keys all receive attention in the voluminous catchall -- discussed in relation to Davis's abiding belief that what fuels the music business first, last and always is the hit song.
Meet the Clive Davis of Opera...
Usually the words, “baller” and “opera” don’t go hand-in-hand, but in the case of Peter Gelb it feels natural. Gelb is the 59-year-old general manager of the Metropolitan Opera and seven seasons in, he’s proven to be one of the most important figures in the Met’s 130-year history. Show More Summary
Clive Davis Takes Forbes Inside The Soundtrack of His Life
FORBES sat down with Davis to discuss his book last week at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. For those of you who haven't had time to read the 608-page tome, we've captured a few of the volume's better anecdotes--including Janis Joplin's attempts to physically consummate her record deal--on video.
Graham Parker: The TVD Interview in conversation with Don Silver
Don Silver is author of the book, Clive: Working for the Man in the Age of Vinyl, an intimate, insider account of working for Clive Davis at Arista Records. —Ed. In late 1978, I was hired by Clive Davis to do A&R, which is essentially to scout talent at Arista Records. What sounded very exciting [...]
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Hollywood hurts pop stars; ‘Bible’ producer at White House; Clive Davis memoir
Personalities elsewhere in the Post: Chris Richards has a theory that Hollywood dabbling saps our great pop stars of their musical talent. Case in point: David Bowie, Madonna, Prince, Andre 3000 — and now, Justin Timberlake. His new album “dazzles … Continue reading ?
Whitney Houston, Smoking: Clive Davis Tried to Persuade Singer to Kick Habit
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In the days before her tragic death in 2012, Whitney Houston made a promise to Clive Davis -- to quit smoking.
Although the singer claimed to have quit taking drugs, she admitted she still harbored a nicotine addiction.
"We were trying to get her to stop smoking," Davis tells Playboy, WENN.com reports. Show More Summary
SXSW 2013: Clive Davis and how the talent scout who knew 'nothing' got famous
AUSTIN, Texas -- Clive Davis is always selling something, it seems. At the South by Southwest Music Conference on Thursday, it was his autobiography that was being flogged, and as he sat to talk about it with Billboard journalist Bill Werde, he immediately began talking about chart position. The book was apparently No. 2 on the latest best-seller list.
Clive’s Book-1
Self-righteous mythologizing. That’s the problem with Clive Davis’s book. It’s like seeing the end of the tunnel, he wants to write his version of history, hoping it will become the one that sticks as decades pass. I liked the old Clive, the Columbia Clive, who became the head of CBS Records, warmed to the job, [...]
Clive Davis Applauds Hip-Hop Community For Embracing Frank Ocean
The recently out crooner says, "They accepted him as a person." read more
It Never Pays to Be a Know-It-All
The former head of Columbia Records learned early on what all CEOs must do: Embrace your strengths--and hire around your weaknesses. Clive Davis started his career as a lawyer. As he recounts in his new autobiography, The SoundtrackShow More Summary
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