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Looking for the Magic: New York City, the '70s and the Rise of Arista Records
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ISBN13: 9798985658903
Publisher: Trouser Press Books
Published: Jun 10 2022
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.47 Width: 8.35 Depth: 8.43
Language: English
Publisher: Trouser Press Books
Published: Jun 10 2022
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.47 Width: 8.35 Depth: 8.43
Language: English
This history of Arista Records, from its 1960s roots in Bell Records through the transformative success of Whitney Houston in the mid-'80s, tells the story of a record label, its visionary leader, Clive Davis, and the artists and genres it embraced and promoted: Barry Manilow, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, the Kinks and many others. Author Mitchell Cohen, a well-known music journalist who served as an A&R executive at Arista, interviewed dozens of artists and former colleagues to produce this detailed and thoughtful account of how Arista Records reflected its place and time: New York in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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