The Soundtrack of My Life 9781442362093, 144236209X
Clive Davis, the famed music producer best known for furthering the careers of Aerosmith, Alicia Keys, Dionne Warwick, a
479 73 81MB
English Pages 20 audio discs (22 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in Year 2013
Table of contents :
Welcome to the party --
Straight out of Brooklyn --
Recovering from shattering losses --
A Harvard man --
A new life back in New York --
The offer that changed my life --
Running Columbia Records --
Making A&R moves --
Monterey pop --
Columbia gets hot --
Pearl --
Simon and Garfunkel --
Dylan --
What kind of career do I want? --
From Santana to Springsteen --
Talent raids and finding the company's soul --
The end of one fantasy --
Searching for a new beginning --
Arista means excellence --
Manilow mania --
Building a new label --
Patti Smith and Lou Reed --
Ready to rock --
The Grateful Dead --
Gil Scott-Heron and Ghostbusters --
Broadway, soundtracks and comedy --
Dionne Warwick --
The Queen of Soul --
New wave, heavy metal, and Eurythmics --
Whitney --
Beyond the house that Barry built --
Arista pop explodes, into Milli Vanilli --
Arista Nashville and new country music --
LaFace rules! --
Bad boy --
Sarah McLachlan, Ace of Base, and the freewheeling nineties --
Supernatural Santana --
Instant major --
Alicia --
The J Records years --
Rod Stewart and the great American songbook --
Rock at the dawn of the twenty-first century --
American Idol and Kelly Clarkson --
More on the Idol franchise --
Accepting change and moving forward.
