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SpankyA free gift article from me to you (no paywall):
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/arts … =url-share
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Clive Davis, Hitmaking Titan of the Music Industry, Dies at 94
Clive Davis, the music executive who rose from a midlevel legal position at Columbia Records to become one of the industry’s most powerful and longest-reigning dons, guiding the careers of Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Barry Manilow and dozens of other stars, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 94.
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His father, Sammy Davis, gave him his start in the business.
Nepotism.
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He was the last of the old school sex, drugs, R&R + payola executives with a MASSIVE entertainment account. 
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At Columbia, Mr. Davis turned the company into a premier rock label and brought millions of dollars in revenue to CBS, the parent company. He was stunned when, in 1973, he was called into the office of Arthur R. Taylor, then CBS president, and fired for allegedly using $94,000 in corporate money to renovate his Central Park West apartment and for his son’s bar mitzvah Keekeekee
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Anchovy_P_ImbalancesFag
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VAXXECUTED!!!
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SockpuppetBye, Clive!
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