This upcoming week on Weds, Sept 27th, 2017 a special public ticketed showing will happen at Arclight Hollywood followed by a Q&A hosted by Andre Harrell with Director Chris Perkel and Clive Davis.

https://www.arclightcinemas.com/ticketing/purchase-options/?lid=1001&bid=414517

Also, on Weds, Sept 27th, 2017 in NY there will be a ticketed showings commencing with a special showing at 6:30pm on October 2nd with Q&A after with Clive Davis

http://www.ifccenter.com/films/clive-davis-the-soundtrack-of-our-lives/

For more film information go to:    https://www.clivedavisfilm.com

The film will be available via Apple Music and iTunes starting October 3rd, 2017

By Jem Aswad

“It’s not sugar-coated — this is very real and gripping,” the legendary record man says

For the full article please click on link below

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/clive-davis-documentary-soundtrack-of-our-lives-prince-1202033555/

By Ben Sisario

In the Manhattan office of Clive Davis, there are reminders everywhere of his work with superstar musicians: on the wall, photos of Mr. Davis with Janis Joplin and Aretha Franklin, and, on a table, a large amethyst crystal given to him by his closest protégée: “Clive,” reads an inscription, “Peace and Love. Whitney.”

Mr. Davis, 85, has been one of the dons of the music business for half a century, and is now the chief creative officer of Sony Music. His career is the subject of a documentary, “Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives,” directed by Chris Perkel, which will open the Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday, with a screening and a concert at Radio City Music Hall. The names on the bill, all artists Mr. Davis has worked with over his career, show some of his breadth, and his pull: Ms. Franklin, Jennifer Hudson, Dionne Warwick, Carly Simon, Barry Manilow and the band Earth, Wind & Fire.

In a recent interview, Mr. Davis discussed his improbable entry into the record business; why he never stops worrying; and how he dealt with some of the setbacks in his career, like being fired from Columbia Records and implicated in a payola scandal that he says unfairly smeared him. Here are edited excerpts from that conversation.

You started as a lawyer, and early in the film you say, “I knew nothing about music.” How do you account for the career you’ve had?

Through both luck and fate, I discovered on the job that I had a natural gift that I never knew I had.

The gift is to determine who could be a long-lasting, major star. And from a repertoire point of view, those songs that are capable of becoming first a hit record — how they could be arranged, sung, performed — and hopefully be one of those very few hit records that become standards.

For the full article and interview please click on link below

5/5/2016 by Shirley Halperin and Chris Gardner

IM Global, Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Prods. and director Chris Perkel are partnering for the feature-length project is based on the industry legend’s 2013 memoir.

Clive Davis’ colorful life is getting the documentary treatment.

IM Global, Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Prods. and director Chris Perkel are partnering on Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives, which is based on the music mogul’s revelatory New York Times-bestselling memoir, The Soundtrack of My Life.

Indie entertainment studio IM Global is fully financing the project and handling worldwide sales while WME Global is overseeing domestic distribution rights. IM Global founder and CEO Stuart Ford and IM global music president David Schulhof announced the full details of the project today.

Davis, however, beat them to it on April 16 at New York’s Cutting Room during a first-ever Arista Records reunion party. The 200 guests of the now defunct label got a sneak peek courtesy of a 10-minute sizzle reel of very early footage (some photos still contained watermarks). Included were interviews with big-name acts he was involved with during his unmatched career, among them: Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, Patti Smith and the Grateful Dead‘s Bob Weir. “It’s very special to see because I didn’t know who [would participate],” Davis, 84, said at the event.

For the full article please click on link below

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7350484/clive-davis-documentary-bruce-springsteen-paul-simon-patti-smith-interviews

I am excited to share the news via The Hollywood Reporter: “Clive Davis’ colorful life is getting the documentary treatment. IM Global, Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions and director Chris Perkel are partnering on Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives, which is based on the music mogul’s revelatory New York Times best-selling memoir “The Soundtrack of My Life”- Clive Davis

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IM Global is financing and handling worldwide sales for the feature-length project based on the industry legend’s 2013 memoir.

Clive Davis’ colorful life is getting the documentary treatment.

IM Global, Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Prods. and director Chris Perkel are partnering on Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives, which is based on the music mogul’s revelatory New York Times best-selling memoir The Soundtrack of My Life.

For the full article please see link below

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/clive-davis-doc-works-at-889768

Since its 2003 founding, the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music has boasted students and alumni responsible for multiple Billboard Top 40 songs, receiving acclaim from publications like Rolling Stone and Billboard. WSN spoke with Jeff Rabhan, Nicholas Sansano, Jason King and Bob Power — the faculty of one of NYU’s most selective programs with roughly 60 students per graduating class — to learn more about what goes into this prestigious arts program.

WSN: What is the importance and appeal of the program among students?

Jeff Rabhan: It’s a contemporary music industry broad-based program, and it’s holistic. So you will leave here understanding all the components of the business, regardless of what you want to do.

For the full article, please click on link below

http://www.nyunews.com/2016/04/11/exploring-clive-davis-the-school-with-the-next-big-hit/

Clive Davis Reflects on 40-Year Friendship & Creative Partnership With Aretha Franklin

3/25/2016 by Melinda Newman

Since Aretha Franklin left Atlantic Records in 1979, many of her most successful records have been executive-produced by Clive Davis, first as founder/president of Arista Records and more recently in his role as chief creative officer of Sony Music Entertainment. He offers reflections on a four-decade creative process.

Click on link for full article:

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/magazine-feature/7285336/clive-davis-aretha-franklin-interview

by Leah Greenblatt

Grammy week in Los Angeles is a wild, strange piñata of parties, but there’s really only one soirée where you can see the likes of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and “Trap Queen” rapper Fetty Wap nibble on roast chicken at adjacent banquet tables while Courtney Love, Sylvester Stallone, Chris Rock, and Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson socialize in the aisles, Gwen Stefani perches giggling on Blake Shelton’s lap, and estranged bandmates Harry Styles and Zayn Malik pose separately for photos but do not (sorry, One Direction dreamers) take the stage.

The man who has brought this annual event together for four decades now is Clive Davis, the legendary 83-year-old record mogul and raconteur. And he did, as he does every year, take care to point out the many friends and artists in the room – a black-tie tangle of EGOTs, industry icons, and tech billionaires – and describe their accomplishments. Those introductions can make for a very extended evening, but they’re actually just interstitials for the performances, which this year included Beck and the surviving members of Nirvana paying tribute to David Bowie with a standout “Man Who Sold the World”; Earth, Wind and Fire running down funk classics like “September” and “Shining Star” in honor of late leader Maurice White; Carly Simon cooing “You’re So Vain”; Melissa Etheridge honoring the Eagles’ Glenn Frey with a husky “Take It to the Limit”; and a grinning Barry Manilow, recently recovered from an undisclosed health scare, singing duet with the videotaped ghost of Judy Garland on “Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart.” Before the end of the evening, the crowd would get Fetty’s “Trap Queen” too, plus performances from Best New Artist nominee Tori Kelly and Andra Day, who is up tonight for Best R&B Album, and a reprise Bowie finale with Adam Lambert and Jack Antonoff strutting through “Let’s Dance.”

For full article and a video link:

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/15/grammys-2016-clive-davis