Word: elektra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sieglinde is, in Nilsson's words, "a little Elektra." Accordingly, the full Nilsson sound flooded...
Willy recounts her close relationship with Graham Nash. Free Man in Paris describes the frenetic "starmaker machinery" she and Elektra-Asylum Chairman David Geffen escaped during a European vacation...
...Cakes, Carly Simon's fourth Elektra album, has sold nearly 1 million units. Carole King's recently released Wrap Around Joy sold over 1 million copies in 14 weeks...
...show's doom and the feelings of their fans, Sonny and Cher seem content to rest on their considerable commercial success. That is to say, Sonny is. Cher's ambitions are already focused elsewhere. At the Grammy Awards, she showed up on the arm of Elektra-Asylum Records President Dave Geffen, humming...
When Geffen took over Warner Communications' Elektra records division in July 1973, it was barely breaking even. Geffen merged Elektra with his small Asylum label, dropped 25 of the 35 Elektra recording artists, fired Elektra's art director and the entire publicity, promotion and production staffs. Then he spirited Dylan away from Columbia, the Band from Capitol and Joni Mitchell from Warner Bros, (a separate subsidiary of Warner Communications). In 1973, the first year of Geffen's tenure, Elektra-Asylum sales were $18 million; so far this year sales have already hit $7 million...