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Notes That Are Music To His Ears: Clive Davis

Mick Brown, Guardian, The, 1985

What do Barry Manilow, Donovan, Janis Joplin, and Springsteen have in common? They owe a lot of their success to Arista Records’ boss Clive Davis. He talked to Mick Brown.

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