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Clive Davis at 90: His Executives Recall the Man, the Mentor, the Music and the Long, Cold Meetings
Clive Davis’ name is a synonym for the ultimate record man.In terms of success, influence, longevity, and the artists and executives he has mentored, he has no peer and probably never will. To give just one example, in 1972 he told a young Bruce Springsteen that the debut album he’d just submitted didn’t have any songs that would get played on the radio.