Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to inside the studio on iHeart Radio.
Speaker 1: My name is Jordan Runt Tug. But enough about me.
Speaker 1: My guest today needs no introduction, but we're gonna give
Speaker 1: him one anyway, because good lord, he deserves it. He's
Speaker 1: a music industry icon. To borrow the phrase of his documentary,
Speaker 1: he's crafted the soundtrack of our lives. In a career
Speaker 1: spanning more than half a century. The list of artists
Speaker 1: he's nurtured, mentored, and guided is like a history course
Speaker 1: in popular music. Everyone from divas like Janice Joplin, Whitney Houston,
Speaker 1: Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, and Alicia Keys to rock legends
Speaker 1: like Bruce Springsteen, Pattie smith, Santana Aerosmith and Maroon five.
Speaker 1: They're hip hop acts like Busta Rhymes and the Bad
Speaker 1: Boys Records, Roster and R and B superstars like tlc
Speaker 1: Usher and Tony Braxton. I could keep going, but we'd
Speaker 1: be here all day. Suffice it to say, every music
Speaker 1: fan owes this man at debt of gratitude each year.
Speaker 1: His famous pre Grammy's Party is a joyous celebration of
Speaker 1: song in invitation to the gallows. Almost as sought after
Speaker 1: was actually winning the Golden Grammophone. This year, the party
Speaker 1: was obviously a little different due to COVID. It was
Speaker 1: a virtual affair held in two parts. In addition to
Speaker 1: showcasing some of his favorite concert performance as ever, the
Speaker 1: event featured intimate interviews with the whole galaxy of music stars,
Speaker 1: from favorites like Elton John, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, and
Speaker 1: Barry Gordy to fresh faces like Her and the Baby.
Speaker 1: It was an unforgettable night, and all for a good cause.
Speaker 1: The party served to raise funds for the Grammy Museum,
Speaker 1: a vital institution dedicated to preserving the history of hits.
Speaker 1: It's an honor and a privilege to welcome Mr Clive Davis.
Speaker 1: My pleasure to really agree with you. I had the
Speaker 1: great privilege and pleasure to to virtually attend part two
Speaker 1: of your your pre Grammy's Party on Saturday. It was
Speaker 1: such a special night. How did the idea come about
Speaker 1: to hold the event digitally? Well, we really had no choice.
Speaker 1: I mean, there was no way of being held live,
Speaker 1: and so when the concept came up of doing it digital,
Speaker 1: I came up with the idea of doing what we did.
Speaker 1: I had once before in the hosting a weekend and
Speaker 1: I had a group of about twenty five people, and
Speaker 1: for entertainment after dinner, I had put together about ten
Speaker 1: performances that I had considered among the greatest of all time.
Speaker 1: And where I am today, I do have the theater
Speaker 1: and I showed it, and wow, the reaction was so
Speaker 1: strong that the first thing I thought of when I
Speaker 1: knew that we had to come up with an idea
Speaker 1: digitally was just doing that and coming up with fifteen
Speaker 1: twenty of the greatest performances. And then I said, well,
Speaker 1: if I did that, and I know the performances have
Speaker 1: been seen, but never really back to back, buck, I
Speaker 1: did have to have and I wouldn't invite those living
Speaker 1: to come chat with me. So hot woman, so gratifying
Speaker 1: that when I asked Barry Gibb, when I asked on
Speaker 1: Bruce Brinstein, Alicia, they all came on Puffy. And the
Speaker 1: one thing I had to with stand was some of
Speaker 1: the younger folks saying, oh, you gotta let everybody chat,
Speaker 1: you know, and there's the attention, then this is gonna
Speaker 1: run four or five hours, and they you know, and
Speaker 1: every one of these type zoons you gotta let them
Speaker 1: speak to I said, there's no way. I said, you
Speaker 1: either have respect that this is unique to either have
Speaker 1: respects years ago when I would go to the Vanity
Speaker 1: Fair Oscar party and I'm riveted to the screen and
Speaker 1: everyone else is talking. I don't like talking during awards, Jones.
Speaker 1: I want to concentrate. Not that my heart is in
Speaker 1: the hands as to who's gonna win, but you want
Speaker 1: to concentrate. And at the risk of not being quote contemporary,
Speaker 1: I held my ground. I'm so glad I did, because
Speaker 1: you don't want people chatting with each other or with
Speaker 1: Vanity seeing their names all over the screen, and whether
Speaker 1: Joni Mitchell or Elton John or Paul Simon or is speaking,
Speaker 1: that's no way. You've got to concentrate. Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: want to let them tell the story. Your pre Grammy's
Speaker 1: Gala is probably the most famous party on the planet.
Speaker 1: You've been doing it for I believe over forty years now.
Speaker 1: It's such a great tradition. How did this all begin?
Speaker 1: How did you you you first start throwing this party? Well,
Speaker 1: you know it began. I had previously been had of
Speaker 1: Columbia records, and of course the night of the Grammys,
Speaker 1: every label, certainly the major labels Colombia included. We had
Speaker 1: a big bash with the orders that some way to
Speaker 1: go and celebrate or not celebrate together. So when I
Speaker 1: became the head of Arrisdon, when I founded our restaurant,
Speaker 1: should say it was the first year of Opper Region
Speaker 1: all of you know, we might have had twenty five
Speaker 1: or thirty people on that first year doing marketing and promotion,
Speaker 1: sales and day and arm and Parry Manilow was up
Speaker 1: for two Grammys commanding and so he came to me
Speaker 1: and he said, what are we going to do? You know,
Speaker 1: I'm coming out to the coast. What what are we
Speaker 1: going to do? I said, look, if you do it
Speaker 1: tonight of the Grammys, it will take a table. There
Speaker 1: was a famous restaurant in named Jason's, and I said,
Speaker 1: you know that doesn't seem right, it's small. And then
Speaker 1: we won two tables, two tables of us there. So
Speaker 1: I came up with the idea of doing something the
Speaker 1: day before and we did it, and Elton John showed up,
Speaker 1: and John Denver showed up, and Stevie Wonders showed us
Speaker 1: as Wow, I'm onto something here and it's a night
Speaker 1: before there were no awards. It's just to celebrate music.
Speaker 1: So beginning to believe in all those years ago, this
Speaker 1: tradition began having the quote programming Galla and that we
Speaker 1: kept to it all through the years, and the heads
Speaker 1: of every other company comes. So it was not just
Speaker 1: for let's say our stuff. It was that every other
Speaker 1: label came because I put on a show and I
Speaker 1: It wasn't that they just smoothed as they say, No,
Speaker 1: I've put on after an hour of cocktails and for
Speaker 1: an hour dinner. At nine thirty of the show began,
Speaker 1: and over the years it's become just the most amazing show.
Speaker 1: Every artist they've masked me because they know that I
Speaker 1: heart radio there. They know that MTV and BT is there,
Speaker 1: and they know that motion picture directors have cares from
Speaker 1: that party. They know how many special nights, you know,
Speaker 1: I put artists and never appeared together together. I know
Speaker 1: one year we had run Steward with lou Reed and
Speaker 1: Slash playing together and singing together. So everybody's memory, you know,
Speaker 1: it's filled. It's like my part of the of the
Speaker 1: night when Dave girls and he started calling it Clive
Speaker 1: as he said, listen, I see artists that I would
Speaker 1: never otherwise see here this day Growl the great rock
Speaker 1: and rolland the same that when he heard him Badley
Speaker 1: at twelve Barron bdalone hits, he literally cried. He knew
Speaker 1: every word, and he thought of his family and they
Speaker 1: loved over so many incredible pairings of artists. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know you you mentioned Rod Stewart and Slash and
Speaker 1: Lou Reed, Alicia Keys and Aretha Franklin are there. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it's hard to pick, but are there any moments
Speaker 1: that really stand out as favorites from from your your
Speaker 1: gatherings over the years. Yes, I would say that there
Speaker 1: was the year that I was leaving Hour and got
Speaker 1: a lot of prints over the years, but BMG, Burtlesman
Speaker 1: didn't won't lose me, and they were trying to find
Speaker 1: a way, frankly, not to pay me all the money
Speaker 1: that my Phantom equity with all the profits we were making,
Speaker 1: and so they gave me a hundred fifty million dollars
Speaker 1: to start Jay Records and I could bring any executive
Speaker 1: all eighteen v from president. I was chairman executive BPS
Speaker 1: eighteen out of the team. Aristill became Jay overnight and
Speaker 1: I took Alicia. She was not out with an album.
Speaker 1: I took five platinum artists with me, and yet obviously
Speaker 1: I could not bring Whitney Houston. And we turned to
Speaker 1: the Grammar Party of that year, and she that knew
Speaker 1: that she and I were being separated. And so that
Speaker 1: year I only had two orders. Okay, it was the year.
Speaker 1: I think it was two thousand, and I had only
Speaker 1: called Santana and would be instant and Collins did the
Speaker 1: first half because we had, you know, just a year
Speaker 1: or two before I had his spectacular new career with Supernatural,
Speaker 1: and we broke it out of the Grammar Party spreading
Speaker 1: the word to every tastemaker that yes he was over fifty,
Speaker 1: yes he doesn't sing but smooth. And Maria Maria became anthems,
Speaker 1: debuting at that party with every radio media cable representative there.
Speaker 1: And so Santana performed, and then Whitney came on, and
Speaker 1: so I vividly remember when she stepped to the front
Speaker 1: of the stage and it wasn't a dry eye in
Speaker 1: my house when she sang, I believe in you and
Speaker 1: me right looking in my eye, I could baible to
Speaker 1: keep my emotion in chat. And then she ended it
Speaker 1: by singing I love His Love You, and that is
Speaker 1: an incredible moment. I would say the breaking of Santana
Speaker 1: from that party, how do you spread the word that
Speaker 1: someone who has not had a hit in twenty five
Speaker 1: years is coming back? And it was only demonstrating. So
Speaker 1: we had Rob Thomas and and Santana to Smooth, and
Speaker 1: we had Santana with White Cleft and product gam b
Speaker 1: to Maria Maria, and no one had ever heard it,
Speaker 1: So how do you spread the word. Yes, I'm serious,
Speaker 1: this is not David's folly because I had signed Santana
Speaker 1: originally and had had only come about Blood, Magic Women,
Speaker 1: Evil Ways with him at the beginning of both of
Speaker 1: our careers. So everybody said, oh, Clid is full of sentiment.
Speaker 1: Who would signed Santana Novities? And well, obviously words spread
Speaker 1: that there were two magic kids at least in Supernatural
Speaker 1: and that's a major memory, and then I think there's
Speaker 1: so many. But if I had a conferred after Alicia
Speaker 1: had broken and played the party as the first new
Speaker 1: artists category began, and she sang Fallen actually right after
Speaker 1: Gladys Night, sang Midnight Train to Georgia, that's a great memory.
Speaker 1: One of the great old time artors Steady show Basin
Speaker 1: and Alicia at the come on after it as this
Speaker 1: new orders, after this old timer, but after at least
Speaker 1: won all those Grammys and bull Time bull Time multiplat amount.
Speaker 1: I said to Alicia, what's your next dream? What would
Speaker 1: you dream that we happened to achieve from the tag?
Speaker 1: She said, you know, my childhood dream and it exists
Speaker 1: to this day, is to perform on the same stage
Speaker 1: with the wreath, and I did just that. I paid
Speaker 1: the two of them at the Grammy party. They said,
Speaker 1: at least she was really just my weekend house. Okay,
Speaker 1: but in the pandemic compan we figure an hour from
Speaker 1: the city, and at least she came up just two
Speaker 1: days ago with her two kids, if she will, and
Speaker 1: her sister, and we've done the whole thing together. Very special, Okay,
Speaker 1: you've got three reminist those are all incredible, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: And of course you know your your most recent party.
Speaker 1: But it was full of so many special moments for me.
Speaker 1: It was so wonderful too to see Joni Mitchell. I
Speaker 1: hadn't seen her interviewed live. I think I read that
Speaker 1: it was it's been six years or so. Tell me
Speaker 1: more about your your friendship with her. You know, it
Speaker 1: really grew right before her aneurism. It was not during
Speaker 1: the years when she was recording Brilliant Beard she did,
Speaker 1: but post her aneurism, she came to my Grammy Party
Speaker 1: every year and it was so special that the one
Speaker 1: to have it there. I always careful who I put
Speaker 1: at her table. I was always reverential to her. So
Speaker 1: she met over the year is well. She was friendly
Speaker 1: with Robbie Roberts and you know, and Robbie's overs been
Speaker 1: at her table. But one year I put David Hockney,
Speaker 1: the great artists, at the table right next to her. Well,
Speaker 1: the next day they were holding hands going to Aunt
Speaker 1: Gallery debuting David's new works, and they become great friends.
Speaker 1: And I introduced Brandy Carlos to Johnny Jorey is no
Speaker 1: question number one heroin of Brandy and Brandy and I
Speaker 1: had done a press day for my Grammy Party. That's
Speaker 1: how she and I met, when we did sixteen interviews
Speaker 1: together and got friendly and close, and so I said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put you at the same table with Joni
Speaker 1: Mitchard where she was paradised with fright. But they have
Speaker 1: become great friends. So Johnny and I talked throughout the
Speaker 1: year every year, and we talked music. And she knows
Speaker 1: how unique and special our how our friend Ture was
Speaker 1: from so special and emotional seeing the performance of her
Speaker 1: singing both sides now and in the year two thousand
Speaker 1: backed with on the orchestra, and when you were both speaking,
Speaker 1: she touched on the fact that the meaning of the
Speaker 1: song that she'd written when she was in her you know,
Speaker 1: twenties changed when she she came at it again later
Speaker 1: in life. And I think that's what's something that's so
Speaker 1: special about music is that different songs resonate with you
Speaker 1: for different reasons, depending on where you're at in your life.
Speaker 1: And I was wondering if that was the case for you,
Speaker 1: there are songs from from earlier in your life, earlier
Speaker 1: in your career that that means something more to you now,
Speaker 1: or resonate with you in a different way. You know.
Speaker 1: My memory is so with the ether songs that I've
Speaker 1: found for all or or or obviously songs that they
Speaker 1: wrote that it's not that I'd find new meaning, but
Speaker 1: when over the years I heard when they sing the
Speaker 1: greatest Love of Ball, I would just immediately they go
Speaker 1: back to the first time we met, when she auditioned
Speaker 1: for me. That was the song she was singing at
Speaker 1: the audition, and it was a song I had commissioned
Speaker 1: to be written for the life of Muhammad Aldle and
Speaker 1: it was eight years early. Bentson record it and I
Speaker 1: had the soundtrack, so he I was tremendously familiar with
Speaker 1: the greatest love of all and here is eighteen year old,
Speaker 1: stunningly beautiful girl. If you will, it's finding new meaning
Speaker 1: in the song the Greatest Love of ball that I
Speaker 1: knew that Michael Master and Linda Creed, who wrote it,
Speaker 1: couldn't have even conceived of when they wrote it. Whitney
Speaker 1: was a vocal genius. But when I heard Smith saying
Speaker 1: because the night okay, I mean I remember as great
Speaker 1: and as much of a renaissance woman. When as Patty is,
Speaker 1: every artist wont success commercially apart from autistically never to bassardized.
Speaker 1: There are nobody is more artistically revered Thander, Jonny Mitchell
Speaker 1: or Patty Smith. But Patty, she says, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I could ever write a hit single. And I
Speaker 1: remember those years who were doing an album with Chimney Ivy,
Speaker 1: who was protrucing Bruce Springsteen and Bruce had written Because
Speaker 1: the Night, Jimmy knew that I in reporting at the
Speaker 1: same time separately Bruce and Patty. Somehow we got to
Speaker 1: find a potential hits on from Patty Smith and without
Speaker 1: compromising her. And sure enough it came out of that
Speaker 1: with Bruce decided for his album he was not going
Speaker 1: to use Because the Night, and he played it for
Speaker 1: Patty played it for me and we loved it. And
Speaker 1: he went a little repidigiously to Bruce and said, can
Speaker 1: I show this Patty Smith? Would you allow me? And
Speaker 1: Bruce said yes, And then Patty got into it and
Speaker 1: did some lyric writing, and they said that and of
Speaker 1: course it became a big hit for Patty, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden said of one or two hundred thousands
Speaker 1: and great rock fans purchases Patty Smith was selling, you
Speaker 1: know all over the world that's putty hit single does
Speaker 1: for you so many amazing songs. I mean, during the
Speaker 1: Pregrammy party, you you revealed your two of your favorite songs.
Speaker 1: My favorite songs to Bridge Over Troubled Water in the
Speaker 1: Box are both by Paul Simon for Simon and Garfuncle.
Speaker 1: What is it about those songs that that makes them
Speaker 1: so special for you? You know, I don't have the
Speaker 1: obviously not knowing you, I don't have the lyric, but
Speaker 1: both songs. A lyric is so brilliant and so meaningful
Speaker 1: and so emotionally affecting. And the melody, and what do
Speaker 1: you have when you have a classic melody? If you
Speaker 1: saw in my party, so I'm in the Gulf Uncle
Speaker 1: sing the boxer, Oh my God, before I have a
Speaker 1: million people, you know when they go into La La La,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's a combination of an affecting lyric
Speaker 1: and an unforgettable melody. Gruble Trouble Water Salon, Silver Girl.
Speaker 1: I mean the first time I heard it, as Paul said,
Speaker 1: you know, five minutes a ballad. And if we come
Speaker 1: to the meeting in Polis Things, I'm sure Cloud is
Speaker 1: gonna pick ce Celia. And there were Columbia. Others had
Speaker 1: a Columbia. I looked at him and I said, it's
Speaker 1: got to be over Trouble Water. They'll never forget it.
Speaker 1: I find Peop will never forget. And to this day,
Speaker 1: if I see they asked me why how, and I
Speaker 1: do say, there are times in life as an executive
Speaker 1: where you just can't give a formula lay it response.
Speaker 1: You know you're going to get a formula lay it responds.
Speaker 1: And there are times if you hear a classet, if
Speaker 1: you hear something that's an old timer, you gotta know
Speaker 1: when to go for it. And there's just too much
Speaker 1: a stake and to come with me. Not that Sicilia
Speaker 1: is not a great hit song. It is, but this
Speaker 1: would signal an unusual artist and American beatles and quality
Speaker 1: songs was there, and I was willing to go for it.
Speaker 1: So there are times you've got to live and forget
Speaker 1: what boubl always love you. And my radio promotion people said,
Speaker 1: you know, radios they hear, they know we're going with it.
Speaker 1: They want to take ow you know, the intro where
Speaker 1: there's no music behind it. What I said, that makes
Speaker 1: it so special. I said, I can't do that. He said,
Speaker 1: well they will. I said, you know, go for the
Speaker 1: home Brown, always go for the home wrong. And we
Speaker 1: did it. Of course in both cases they became you know,
Speaker 1: yes it was an acapella. It is a word I'm
Speaker 1: searching for, but that is in you know, and wow,
Speaker 1: that's a classic. And of quick for trump water, whether
Speaker 1: it's done by someone in golf uncle, somebody with the Franklin.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's an incredible soul listening to you talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, advising, Paul Simon, Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Miles Davis.
Speaker 1: I think Kenny g referred to once as a friendly provocateur.
Speaker 1: I think was the phrase he used. Have there been
Speaker 1: any musicians who have returned the favor and and and
Speaker 1: taught you something as that? Whover your your biggest teacher
Speaker 1: has been over the years. My teaching come purely from
Speaker 1: spunt to nearly. I mean I knew all right when
Speaker 1: I started oristoff, I've been fired from Columbia and they
Speaker 1: did not want to risk their broadcast license. Someone was
Speaker 1: claiming that there was payover and so in the company.
Speaker 1: I had never even heard of pay I'll tell you,
Speaker 1: and yet I had to withstand the industry investigation. I'm
Speaker 1: proud in my documentary which is on Netflix right now,
Speaker 1: let me say in a big, big, big hit for
Speaker 1: them on Netfloox Cole Climb David was the soundtrack of
Speaker 1: Our Lives. And you'll see in that documentary the check
Speaker 1: the Columbia CBS gave me for a million dollars a
Speaker 1: lot of money. Many is help and because they didn't
Speaker 1: take the risk, and I had to go through the
Speaker 1: pain and the trauma until vindication came. And you know
Speaker 1: so that when I called Ariston at the heading Columbia,
Speaker 1: I wanted it to be an instant major. I was
Speaker 1: not about to be a brand new company. So that
Speaker 1: if I only kept signing rock orders, that's the artist
Speaker 1: I signed the Columbia, that's what's gotta be an all
Speaker 1: of fame. It was Arrowsmith, and it was Springsteen and
Speaker 1: Billie Joel and it was earth Wind and Fire like that, okay,
Speaker 1: And but by that time rock can changed. And although
Speaker 1: I signed rock orders, when I called Harriston, I sawn
Speaker 1: the out closed, green Grass and High Tides. I signed
Speaker 1: Patty Smith, I signed Lou Reed, I signed Graham Parker,
Speaker 1: I signed and Stiff records with the injury. And then
Speaker 1: I attracted the King's and the Grateful Dead. But those
Speaker 1: artists would not sell the millions of our boats. Punk
Speaker 1: new way or that you were doing real well. If
Speaker 1: you win gold, I had to go. My ordists had
Speaker 1: to go double triple platinum or more. And the way
Speaker 1: to do that is through singles, which you don't give
Speaker 1: songs to self contain rock orders, that's for sure. So
Speaker 1: that I did look at Mowtown. I did look, and
Speaker 1: that's for my conversation the other night was very gordy,
Speaker 1: where we said we looked at compared notes over the
Speaker 1: years with each other, and I knew I had a home.
Speaker 1: My year fits ONNG So whether ultimately bringing to the
Speaker 1: label Dion both poet and a refurn leading up to Whitney.
Speaker 1: After what I had done with Darren Manilone where he
Speaker 1: wrote and I gave him two songs on every album,
Speaker 1: I knew that A and are artists and repertoire. Yes,
Speaker 1: you look for the special rock distinct of self contained artists,
Speaker 1: but to really go multi platinum for the most part,
Speaker 1: I hold my ear for the hit song and I
Speaker 1: did look, you know at what Motown had done over
Speaker 1: years to come up with material you know, which, of
Speaker 1: course look to be in this most perfect rom Speaking
Speaker 1: of Whitney, I know you've been working on a film
Speaker 1: version of her life. I wanted to know what the
Speaker 1: updates were on that and how that experience has been
Speaker 1: for you. That is the beginning we're talked about the biopic. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I well, I shouldn't say it's that beginning. I have
Speaker 1: worked with the author of Bohemian Rhapsody, the film, the
Speaker 1: Queen film, Anthony McCartin, for about a year, and now
Speaker 1: on the script. I mean, I'll be saying Anthony wrote it,
Speaker 1: but I can judge what's real and what's not real
Speaker 1: and what I made sure. Notwithstanding his success with Beamian Rhapsody,
Speaker 1: which is now the biggest posting I've been felt the
Speaker 1: bois at a billion dollars, that he meets with her family,
Speaker 1: with her hair dress, with her custom, with the writers,
Speaker 1: with her agent, even without psychiatrists, if you will, So
Speaker 1: that he understood apart from my relationship and the family,
Speaker 1: everything up with me. So it was never the whitewashing.
Speaker 1: We're not whitewashing this important message that drugs are lethal.
Speaker 1: We're not whitewashing that will come through. Drugs are lethal.
Speaker 1: She fought four four solving gamely and vainly to overcome
Speaker 1: it and didn't. But the two documentaries out of Whitney
Speaker 1: have been poor, they've been wonderment. And there was another
Speaker 1: side up Withney. There was that side that you saw
Speaker 1: she joined the on what work. At the end of
Speaker 1: ETL Friends for there was Whitney. What you might have
Speaker 1: seen in part one when she does a mentally like
Speaker 1: nobody has done. I Love You, Porgy from Porgy and
Speaker 1: Best going into when I Tell You I'm Not Going
Speaker 1: from dream Girls songs that she was not associated with,
Speaker 1: and then ending with I Have Nothing to Me. That's
Speaker 1: probably the greatest television singing performance ever. Whitney was a
Speaker 1: vocal genius, and she was a devoted fan of me,
Speaker 1: said listen to everything knew the producers so that, yes,
Speaker 1: we'll tell the story of Whitney, but it will include
Speaker 1: why she's considered the best contemporary artists vocally of all time,
Speaker 1: that she reads constructs that now and there are others great,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. I love gold as Nice and
Speaker 1: Patty and what have you. But Whitney was a vocal genius,
Speaker 1: and you've got to show why. Produces Baby Pig, David
Speaker 1: Forster or Walden all put her in a unique, unique categories.
Speaker 1: So the movie, I think will show it all. What's
Speaker 1: the problems put the triumph and the influence on autists
Speaker 1: all over the world. I can't wait to see it.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited. Here's a question. Any thoughts on who
Speaker 1: you'd like to play you in the film? You know
Speaker 1: that's always tough. I must say. An unknown played me
Speaker 1: in the Uretha, A part series of it just on Disney.
Speaker 1: I still love them better. His name is first Redmond.
Speaker 1: He did a real good job. I was pleasantly big pleased. Okay,
Speaker 1: the park was not a big a part in the
Speaker 1: Whitney movie, so I would be happy with Stanley Tucci.
Speaker 1: I'd be happy with Steve Correll. You know we're talking,
Speaker 1: but no one doesn't cast Oh my god, especial Davis.
Speaker 1: I could talk to you all day. I don't want
Speaker 1: to take up too much more of your time. Before
Speaker 1: I let go, I just want to ask how how
Speaker 1: has this last year been for you? I mean, it's
Speaker 1: been tough and strange for everybody for so many different reasons.
Speaker 1: But has it been allowed you a little bit of
Speaker 1: a break from your schedule to sort of reflect? Or
Speaker 1: has it been just as busy as ever for you?
Speaker 1: I got to tell you in a way of busier
Speaker 1: than ever. If you saw a part one and pought two,
Speaker 1: I mean you've seen now I think twenty almost severe artists.
Speaker 1: You know, of a caliber of Springsteen and Elton and
Speaker 1: pull some in open so putting that all together, picking
Speaker 1: just doing pop one in Part two has been during
Speaker 1: the pandemic, so preoccupying, motivating, just unique and special. So yes,
Speaker 1: I've been really every very busy. Turning from the Revere
Speaker 1: Port TV sure is looking making sure the script for
Speaker 1: the Whitney bibit was you need also putting together part
Speaker 1: one in part two of the Grammy Party and have
Speaker 1: it become an overwhelming feedback of a lifetime memory for everybody.
Speaker 1: So yes, I've been very busy, and I'm beast, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've got so many books I want to read.
Speaker 1: I've got so many documentaries I want to see. I've
Speaker 1: got so many projects. But you know, it's been a
Speaker 1: tough period. Life is tough in the reality of it.
Speaker 1: The fear of COVID avoidance, of the importance of vaccination
Speaker 1: so important that you be vaccinated in far grading numbers,
Speaker 1: and they are mystery as to all that fear. But look,
Speaker 1: I among millions abothers worried through the election, very important
Speaker 1: who became our president, and so be yes, I should
Speaker 1: mention that your your parties have gone to raise money
Speaker 1: for the Granty Museum, which which bad they needs it.
Speaker 1: It's been really hurt in the last year since it's
Speaker 1: been shut down. And music. Here's a combination of the
Speaker 1: two of the two of them and so gratifying as
Speaker 1: a result of that. Yeah, it's the first time we
Speaker 1: better charitable series of Grammar porters. So that's great, wonderful
Speaker 1: work you're doing. My very very last question, I've always
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you this, Mr clap Davis. Where is
Speaker 1: your favorite place to listen to music? Look, I listened
Speaker 1: to music first in my office at some me. I'm
Speaker 1: there to la o'clock every night in normal term times,
Speaker 1: and I've got great speakers I'm doing for playing music
Speaker 1: very and so I like to listen there when I'm
Speaker 1: for the years that I was weekly picking singles. Ultimately
Speaker 1: in my car. I mean I hear records in my
Speaker 1: car different from any other place. I have an office
Speaker 1: where I'm talking to you from today in Comfort, New York.
Speaker 1: Were again the speakers were beautifully gifted to me and
Speaker 1: they're fantastic, and I love listening there. So I would say,
Speaker 1: whether it's my office and townd, whether it's my office
Speaker 1: and Sony or whether it's my car. Those of the
Speaker 1: three favorite places to listen to music's sound like wonderful places.
Speaker 1: Mr Clive Davis, thank you so much for your time today.
Speaker 1: It's been an honor and a pleasure. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: My closure, thank you, thank you for your time, your music.
Speaker 1: And I'm an n y U graduate and i took
Speaker 1: many classes at the Clive Davis School of Music, so
Speaker 1: thank you for the education as well. You're very welcome.
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