Word: geffen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MARIA MCKEE: MARIA MCKEE (Geffen). Love songs like crystal, done with some fancy collaborators (including Richard Thompson and Robbie Robertson) by a vocalist who can soar just fine...
MARIA McKEE: MARIA McKEE (Geffen). Love songs like crystal, done with some fancy collaborators (including Richard Thompson and Robbie Robertson) by a vocalist who can soar just fine...
...Geffen Records...
...band, which has two featured singers and seven rambunctious musicians besides Don and his compadre David Was, has a distinctive, daffy humor, a rhythmic sense that is honed until it gleams and a stiff spine about matters of conscience. Once badgered by market-wary Geffen Records, as Don puts it, to "get rid of the black guys," Was (Not Was) hung tough. Same as they did when told by another company there would be no band pictures, "because we don't want black radio to see they're white, and we don't want white radio to see they...
...Geffen, whose romantic partners have included Marlo Thomas and Cher, now leads a privileged single life. (His estimated net worth, according to Forbes magazine: $240 million.) In his gallery-like apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, the walls are covered with the works of David Hockney, Jasper Johns and other modern masters. From his Malibu beach house, he skims the Pacific in a 20-ft. speedboat. Like most self-made men, however, Geffen is consumed by his work. "My greatest fear is getting bored," he explains. "I'm always taking notes on the imaginary yellow scratch pad in my mind...