Word: geffen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Town. But the music social scene is relatively unsophisticated. Close friends are welcome at Ringo's rented Hollywood Hills house between 2 a.m. and 7 a.m., but things of significance are never discussed. "Rock performers don't talk to artists or economists," says Rock Entrepreneur Dave Geffen. "As a group, they are a collection of narcissists in desperate need of a catalyst. A rock performer goes to a friend's house to smoke dope. They listen to each other's music and feel special. The guy goes home telling himself he's had a night...
With The Band in semiretirement, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young again disbanded and the Allman Brothers crippled by brother Gregg's dalliance with Cher, the Eagles have run out of challengers. But they might still be wandering in the desert if David Geffen, a wiry former show-biz agent, had not convinced them to leave Singer Linda Ronstadt's band to form their own group. In 1972 he advanced them $100,000, along with instructions to head for Colorado to get an act together. When the Eagles returned a month later, Geffen, who had become president of the newly...
...names like David Geffen (founder of Asylum Records) and Nat Weiss (The Beatles' American manager) praised and encouraged him, but told him his songs weren't right for the tastes of the current pop market. "The real watershed occurred two years ago when a large publishing company made a substantial offer, the contingency being that I break up with McNamee," he says. "They felt his lyrics were too intellectual for the general pop audience, and specified that I work with their house hacks...
...uncle has another explanation for her fastidiousness: "Cher had seen it all and done it all by the time she was 15." But they both add that the quality of her career is far more important to her than the quality of any human tie. Says Geffen: "I have to have a private life, but I don't think Cher understands the concept of private life. Cher enjoys the hoopla." Says Sonny Bono: "Cher is now living the adolescence she never...
Sonny claims, in a $25 million suit, that ex-Friend Geffen "induced" her to break her contracts with Sonny's ironically named Cher Corp. Whatever the truth legally, there is no doubt Geffen was helpful to her in a difficult time, carefully orchestrating a schedule of public appearances and signing her-for a very comforting price-to a contract with Warner Bros. Records. (The first album, Stars, produced by Jimmy Webb, will be released next week...