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Clive Davis on Imus in the Morning with Don Imus, discussing his music epiphany, Janis Joplin, The Beatles, The Beach Boys and Whitney Houston. Via Fox Business

Via TheGrio: VIDEO – Music Mogul Clive Davis has released a tell-all memoir The Soundtrack of My Life. In his book, 80-year-old Davis opens up about some of legendary artists he has worked with throughout the years including Whitney Houston, Simon & Garfunkel, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin, Alicia Keys and more.

by Chris Witherspoon | February 25, 2013 at 5:29 PM

In his book, 80-year-old Davis opens up about some of legendary artists he has worked with throughout the years including Whitney Houston, Simon and Garfunkel, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin, Alicia Keys and more.

The Soundtrack of My Life has received positive reviews thus far from critics, and Davis tells theGrio’s Chris Witherspoon that he never guessed the book would do so well.

“Whether it’s my book, or whether it’s the records of artists. You never anticipate it. I take nothing for granted. So for this book, I have the same attitude. I’m gratified; I’m thrilled at this weekend’s news.”

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Clive Davis addresses Whitney Houston lesbian rumors

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The Legendary Record Executive Speaks Out on the Publication of his Autobiography, The Soundtrack of my Life

February 26, 2013

Clive Davis’ The Soundtrack of My Life covers his 40-plus years in the record business, and has been received with critical accolades. Of course, he threatened all that good will by siting down with HITS magazine for a Q&A on the eve of publication.

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by Nicole Del Mauro

It is hard to imagine that Clive Davis, an award-winning record producer with five Grammy awards under his belt and the man with the golden ears, was not always aware of his affinity for music.

“I was an ordinary listener of music,” Davis said. “It was not anything [that seemed to] take over my life.”

Now, 40 years later, he has not only established himself as the sole recording producer in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but the founder of a pioneering program for recording artists at NYU.

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Clive Davis celebrates lifetime of achievements at NYU

Clive Davis: A Life With A ‘Soundtrack’

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2013/02/23/172719492/clive-davis-a-life-with-a-soundtrack?sc=tw&cc=share

Via msnbc: Mogul Clive Davis on Morning Joe talking Janis Joplin, Whitney Houston, his new book and giving advice to those who wish to pursue a career in music.

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Via msnbc: Mogul Clive Davis on Morning Joe talking Janis Joplin, Whitney Houston, his new book and giving advice to those who wish to pursue a career in music.

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Janis, Bruce and Whitney listened to Clive Davis’s advice— Laura Nyro, Loudon Wainwright III and Curtis Stigers didn’t.

By DAVID KIRBY
Wall Street Journal

Let’s begin with a quiz: Name the four performers who won an Oscar for acting and also had a No. 1 musical album. OK, Sinatra is a gimme, and it won’t surprise you to learn that Bing Crosby and Barbra Streisand are on the list. But that fourth name might be a little harder to come up with, so let’s range back and forth over the past half-century of the entertainment business, as producer and record executive Clive Davis does in this autobiography, and give that last bit of show-biz trivia time to bob to the surface….

Until now, though, no one has written a book that reveals as much about the industry as Mr. Davis’s book does. In his self-portrayal, he comes across as the nicest guy in the world, but make no mistake: This is one mogul who sometimes screws up and remembers every slight, often shedding crocodile tears as he points to yet another artist who might have had a career if only he had listened to the old square from Brooklyn who knew what made a song sizzle.

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