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This Saturday night, 24 hours before the 2003 Grammy Awards, Clive Davis will put on a tuxedo, tap a microphone and introduce guests at his annual pre-Grammy party to the best new artist--of 2004. "His name," Davis confides in advance, "is Gavin DeGraw. He's a piano player, a songwriter. A lot like Billy Joel or Elton John, but with the soul of maybe a Joe Jackson. He's gonna be a star...
...Davis was the president of Arista Records, the label he founded and had run for 25 years, when Arista's German parent, Bertelsmann Music Group, pressed him to retire. After months of tabloid speculation about how Davis--whose ego is a frequent subject of industry jokes ("Why does Clive Davis like CDs more than tapes? He thinks they were named after him")--would respond, he surprised his critics, friends and corporate overlords by stepping aside without a peep. As a reward for his grace, Davis was given seed money to start J Records, where in a short time he piloted...
...Herbert] quadruple boiled all of his food to make sure that all vestiges of folic acid were removed from his diet,” said his colleague, Clive Rosendorff, chief of medicine at the Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center. “Sure enough, he became anemic and quite seriously...
...company paid seven figures for book and film rights to the Bartimaeus trilogy, a series of novels about a jinni and a young magician by British writer Jonathan Stroud. Not to be outdone, Disney reportedly paid nearly $8 million for the film, theme-park and multimedia rights to Clive Barker's fantasy novel Abarat...
...classical-sales chart," says Tony Shaw, U.K. classical manager for retail chain HMV. "Most get into the Top 10. Recently, Shostakovich's 11th Symphony got to No. 3, beating [popular tenors] Bocelli and Russell Watson." LSO Live is the brainchild of the orchestra's managing director, Clive Gillinson. Before the label launched in 2000, he had been in negotiations with the Musicians' Union for three years. "I knew the majors would have to record less and less core repertoire," he says, "and that they'd eventually be competing against their own back catalogs. The market had to change...