David Geffen

...one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group. Geffen Records was founded in 1980 by music industry businessman David Geffen who, in the early 1970s, had founded Asylum Records. Geffen stepped down from Asylum in 1975, when he crossed...

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...bill of health, whereupon he decided to return to working in the entertainment industry. In 1980, he founded Geffen Records and recruited Warner Bros. Records exec Ed Rosenblatt as president. The Geffen label's meteoric rise to prominence...

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...as dancers at Arnold's. Initially, actor Anson Williams, who played Potsie on Happy Days, objected to footage of him appearing in the video, but relented after a letter from David Geffen, founder of Geffen Records. The video was met with...

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...box. So I went racing into Jim Brooks' office and said, "We got to get 'In Your Eyes. '" He called David Geffen and David said he would do his best to try and get the song, but he couldn't guarantee anything because Peter Gabriel had never...

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Geffen Records Inc. Type: Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Universal Music Group ... Geffen Records was founded in 1980 by music industry businessman David Geffen ...

David Geffen (1943–) Principal, DreamWorks SKG Nationality: American. ... David Geffen (born February 21, 1943) is an American record executive, film ...

David Geffen ranks 52 on The 400 Richest Americans 2007 ... 52 David Geffen. 09.20.07, 6:00 PM ET. Sort ... Founded Asylum Records 1970, then Geffen Records. ...

A brief biography with links on the life of American businessman and Hollywood producer, David Geffen. ... In 1980, David Geffen founded Geffen Records. ...

Geffen Records was started by David Geffen in 1980; its first release was the ... Warner Bros. Records until 1991, when David Geffen sold the label to MCA Records. ...