Barts, the whole gang of them migrating away twice a year as a single large flock. On one trip to St. He has one, now, pattering around the Pound Ridge home, a beautifully tasseled creature named Charlie. Several of his children also have Cavalier King Charles Spaniels.
You will come up short. And that is a road to unhappiness. I just gravitate. Davis introduces Whitney Houston in New York, Yet ghosts swim at the corners , for all the triumphs. Despite the decades that stand between those events and now, Clive thinks of both episodes as unsettled affairs. Industry insiders, with their truffle-pig noses for sniffing out scandal from the air, suspected more to the story, perhaps involving prostitution, large-scale payola, or a hard-drug racket.
Columbia issued no public statement. Clive left the company. The allegations against him were never proven, and many in the industry agree now that the whispers about drugs or payola were merely bombastic invention, but, for a while, they dragged after him in the business like toxic smoke trails.
But this bow-tied account of the story is not undisputed. That alone was the reason the board decided to dismiss him. He rewrites history and reality. I was sacrificed. Then, at the turn of the century, rumors kicked up that Bertelsmann was preparing to put Clive out to pasture. Was it his age? His balance sheets? His somewhat domineering style that no longer dovetailed with a changing world? Clive pounced to meet the attacks mid-air.
At age 66, I am absolutely at the peak of my powers. Clive physically walked out of a dinner when Bertelsmann CEO Strauss Zelnick and chairman Michael Dornemann tried to cajole him out of Arista and into a hands-off chairmanship role. Clive offers his own set of figures. They said, Well, the head of Bertelsmann is retiring at 60 and for you to still retain your share… we cannot continue the arrangement. And they said, What does it take for you to stay with us?
And this is word for word what happened. I was at the height of my power. He called it J Records. He has a ball. He loves the music business. You know who he is. Clive was a hot-air balloon again. They gave him bigger and bolder winds. The greater the number of people you instill the exaggerated story on, the more it spreads outside of you, the more it ricochets and lodges back into your mind as the absolute truth. And Clive is the ultimate reteller of stories, saturating news outlets with repeat anecdotes from his life.
To be frank about it, he puts on this event in his own honor. Fred Goodman. Patti Smith. Photography: Kevin Mazur, WireImage. Class of Hal Blaine Musical Excellence. Eric Clapton Performers. Nat "King" Cole Early Influences. King Curtis Musical Excellence. Earth, Wind and Fire Performers. Billie Holiday Early Influences. James Jamerson Musical Excellence. The Moonglows Performers. He moved in with his married sister in Queens, New York City. Clive received a full scholarship to Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Board of Student Advisers and graduated in He practiced law at several firms, and eventually became an assistant counsel of CBS subsidiary Columbia Records, aged 28, and then general counsel the following year.
After several years at CBS, he became interested in the latest generation of rock stars, and started signing musicians including Donovan, Tony Orlando and Barry Manilow. He was married to Helen Cohen from to , and then to Janet Adelberg from to He has four children in total: Fred born , a media investment banker, Lauren born , Mitchell born , and Doug Davis born , a music executive and Grammy award-winning record producer.
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