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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: soundtrack of my life
  name:
    name part: Davis, Clive.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: DeCurtis, Anthony.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2012
    edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 586 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
  abstract: In this star-studded autobiography, Clive Davis shares a personal, candid look into his remarkable life and the last fifty years of popular music as only a true insider can. Davis' career has spanned more than forty years, and he has discovered, signed, or worked with a staggering array of artists: Whitney Houston, Janis Joplin, Simon and Garfunkel, Barry Manilow, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, Dionne Warwick, Carlos Santana, The Grateful Dead, Alicia Keys, Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson, and Aretha Franklin, to name a few. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy, and hosted the world's highest profile parties. In this fully illustrated, personal account, Davis tells all, from becoming an orphan in high school and getting through college and law school on scholarships, to being falsely accused of embezzlement and starting up his own record company, J Records. His wealth of experience offers valuable insight into the evolution of the music business over the past half-century and into the future.--From publisher description.
  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 by 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.
  note: Clive Davis with Anthony DeCurtis.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Davis, Clive
  subject:
    topic: Sound recording executives and producers
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Popular music
    geographic: United States
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Rock music
    geographic: United States
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: ML429.D36 A3 2012
  classification: 781.64092 B
  identifier: 9781476714783 :
  identifier: 1476714789 :
  identifier: 2013002528
  record info:
    record content source: IEP
    record creation date: 130208
    record change date: 20151203084347.0
    record identifier: in00002839016