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This satisfied no one. The P.M.R.C. and the NPTA agreed that such caveats were too mild. Some record companies have gone along, but others have resisted. "It's moronic," David Geffen, chairman of Geffen Records, told TIME's Peter Ainslie. "I have no intention of carrying a warning label on my records. It's censorship. They'd have to pass a law before I would do it." Some observers of the music business believe that the RIAA acquiesced to label warnings because it did not want to ruffle feathers while lobbying for passage of a bill that would place...
...look for the high road but follow the hard line. "Rock video is terrific," says Gil Friesen, president of A & M Records, "but it is the music itself that creates the excitement, whether the music goes out over MTV or radio. Music is the ultimate power." John Kalodner of Geffen Records agrees: "Rock video isn't the art form. Rock video markets the art form...
Stray Cats, Men at Work, and Adam Ant are hardly familiar names to most people over 30. Yet they are among the leaders in the revival of pop music. After a four-year slump, sales of records and tapes have begun heading up again. Says David Geffen, head of Geffen Records, one of the most successful firms: "This is going to be a good season. Things are finally starting to turn around...
...more than anyone else except Johnny Carson, she sometimes outdraws the man himself in the ratings. She is one of the few stars who can still pack houses in a depressed Las Vegas; her twelve-city tour in February was an instant sellout; and last week Geffen Records released her first album in years, What Becomes a Semi Legend Most? Next week she will be the host of NBC's Saturday Night Live, and on April 18 she will take over the Carson show again for a week. "I think the country is ready for me," she says. "People...
Greg Copeland: Revenge Will Come (Geffen). A rough mix of lilting melodies with wracking romanticism and Christian mysticism...