The soundtrack of my life /
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 arti...
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. |
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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.