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...successful moguls were there, contract-signing pens at the ready. At the time, the three top record companies were RCA, Capitol and Columbia. Joe Smith of Warner had pre-empted the pack by signing Jimi Hendrix before the festival. But the most enterprising of all was Columbia's Clive Davis, who in the wake of the festival signed Janis Joplin; Blood, Sweat and Tears; Santana; and Chicago. To their eventual sorrow, RCA and Capitol were still viewing such affairs?indeed, all of rock?as something of a passing...
...calls to several female radio-station employees. When the David Bowie entourage came to town, Galliani took out an ad in the personals column of Rolling Stone: "Desperate. Must have two tickets to see David Bowie performance in San Francisco, Oct. 28. Will pay up to $100 each. Call Clive or Ahmet." Meaning, of course, the rival potentates at Columbia and Atlantic...
...CLIVE DAVIS, president of Columbia Records for 5% years. Cool, intense Harvard Law grad. Age 40; married to second wife. Was at historic Monterey Festival of 1967, sensed a revolution. Signed Janis Joplin, Laura Nyro and others who in next three years doubled Columbia's share of record market to 22%. Rock moved from 15% of firm's volume to more than 50%. Despite lack of musical training and personal taste that ran to folk singers and Johnny Mathis, he was shrewd enough to develop Santana; Chicago; Blood, Sweat and Tears; Sly and the Family Stone. Gives stars...
...lifetime. The affections were so complicated that Lytton Strachey, whose 'buggery' as Bell puts it, was well-known, proposed to Virginia in 1909. Though Virginia greatly longed for marriage, she gently cased Strachey out of his offer. From the Bloomsbury salad days also dated Virginia's flirtation with Clive Bell, the husband of her sister Vanessa. Rivalry was always latent between the sisters, and Vanessa's marital happiness was in some sense unbearable to Virginia. Reacting with typically confused feelings of delight and jealousy. Virginia deepened the sisterly tension by her flirtation, which was instrumental in the slow declension...
MacCaffrey will assume her duties next summer, when Clive begins his year's leave of absence. Clive said that MacCaffrey's term will probably last from three to six years...