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...time Bob Dylan ended his six-week concert tour last week, fans in 21 cities had paid $5 million to see and hear him. Dylan will pocket about $1.5 million, and the rest will go for expenses and promoters' percentages. Not a penny went to David Geffen, who organized much of the tour...
...Geffen, the 30-year-old president of Elektra-Asylum Records, is not complaining. The tour will help boost sales of Dylan's new Asylum album, Planet Waves, which already has become a Gold Record ($1 million in sales at the manufacturer's level). Two other new Geffen productions, Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark, and Carly Simon's Hotcakes, were gilded last month in their first week on the market. Since the recent downfall of Clive Davis as president of Columbia Records, Geffen has emerged as the financial superstar of the $2 billion pop music industry...
...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...
...record companies." The first to get the word was Bob Dylan. One of the label's superstars for more than a decade, Dylan came up for contract renewal last month and found that he could no longer write his own ticket. He has now signed with David Geffen of Elektra/Asylum...
...done time with the Bvrds Dillard Clark as well as LA's second wring folk rock hand the ones that never made it past saloons. Scraped from these ruins each member knowing another from less successful days. Eagles have one man in common. David Gellen head of Asylum Records Geffen sent the band to play four sets a might for four weeks in a saloon in Aspen Gellen gave them the best-studio time in London and master engineer Glyn Johns--as well as virtually as much of a schedule as was necessary for the production of that first album...