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The former head of Columbia Records learned early on what all CEOs must do: Embrace your strengths–and hire around your weaknesses.

Issie Lapowsky | Inc. magazine
Mar 5, 2013

Clive Davis started his career as a lawyer. As he recounts in his new autobiography, The Soundtrack of My Life, Davis spent several years working as general counsel for Columbia Records before a fortuitous political reorganization landed him at the helm of the company. That’s when, to the benefit of the American musical canon, Davis found his true talent.

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The former head of Columbia Records learned early on what all CEOs must do: Embrace your strengths–and hire around your weaknesses.

Issie Lapowsky | Inc. magazine
Mar 5, 2013

Clive Davis started his career as a lawyer. As he recounts in his new autobiography, The Soundtrack of My Life, Davis spent several years working as general counsel for Columbia Records before a fortuitous political reorganization landed him at the helm of the company. That’s when, to the benefit of the American musical canon, Davis found his true talent.

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http://www.inc.com/magazine/201303/how-i-got-started/clive-davis.html

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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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323478004578302443140694614.html

The New York Times has posted their review of Clive Davis’ new book. Check out the piece, entitled “2 Masters of the Business That Is Recorded Music” on their website HERE >>

The Los Angeles Times has posted their review of Clive Davis’ new book. Check out the piece, on their website HERE >>

The record executive has a lot to tell us, from what it’s like to boss Whitney about to just how great a Grammys party he gives

By Hermione Hoby
February 23rd 2013

This week, the storied record label executive Clive Davis published his autobiography, The Soundtrack of My Life – an account of five decades in the music business and his central role in the careers of Whitney Houston, Alicia Keys, Barry Manilow and more.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/feb/23/clive-davis-autobiography-janis-joplin-whitney

2/22/2013 by Chris Willman

The mogul’s epically detailed memoir may be a tough slog for not terminally music-biz-obsessed readers. But we culled through the 600-page tome for the tastiest tidbits about Dylan, Janis, Kelly, Whitney, Santana, Manilow, and Maroon 5

Clive Davis’ epic memoir, The Soundtrack of My Life, won’t be an easy read for every music fan. Puffy aficionados may not care to read about Johnny Winter’s contract negotiations, and the folks who pick it up to learn more about Janis Joplin probably won’t care much about why Davis fell out with Kenny G or Dallas Austin. But lodged within its decades-spanning stats and minutiae are plenty of intriguing tidbits. From the book’s nearly 600 pages, here are the 60 most fun factoids and anecdotes:

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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/earshot/60-things-we-learned-clive-423616

Clive Davis phoned in to “On Air with Ryan Seacrest“ to discuss his autobiography The Soundtrack of My Life.

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http://ryanseacrest.com/2013/02/22/clive-davis/

Clive Davis’ new memoir, The Soundtrack of My Life, has been getting a lot of buzz lately…

Regardless of the provocative headlines, we had the honor of snagging our own interview with the legendary record producer, who’s worked with music icons like Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, Christina Aguilera, Rod Stewart, and the like.

Check out our Q&A with Davis and discover some of his thoughts on his famous collaborations, which artist has distinctly stood out to him, and what he has yet to achieve on his bucket list. Oh, and for you unrelenting fans, he even talks about Milli Vanilli.

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http://www.biography.com/bio-now/clive-davis-discusses-whitney-bruce-and-milli-vanilli-in-new-book-21131067