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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, Clive
Other Authors: DeCurtis, Anthony
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012.
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.