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When you think of Atlantic Records, which music icon comes to mind? Aretha Franklin? Cream? Cardi B? Genesis? Aaliyah? Ray Charles? Led Zeppelin? Bruno Mars? Crosby, Stills & Nash? Any of those names would be right, as a new coffee-table book, 75 Years of Atlantic Records, more than proves. To celebrate the label’s seven-plus decades, Taschen Books and editor Reuel Golden assembled a photo-rich collection of rare and classic images of key Atlantic artists and the execs, like founder Ahmet Ertegun, who brought them on board. Over its 691 pages, we see...

It’s a hot summer night in 1969, and for those of a certain age — young enough to turn on, tune in, drop out — Steve Paul’s the Scene is your place. As a spectator, a musician, a hanger-on. A place where the music comes first, even if you do end up scoring dope or going home with somebody.

The line to get in stretches all the way down West 46th Street and around the corner to Eighth Avenue. It’s a long walk down rickety steps to a dark, crowded,...

Established in 1983 by Atlantic Records chairman Ahmet Ertegun, along with a group of music business luminaries including Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner and fellow record exec Seymour Stein, the Rock Hall concept was simple: to showcase some of the greatest rock and roll acts that would eventually be featured in a museum. The performers were chosen by a nominating committee made up of journalists, producers, and others in the music biz, and in recent years fans have been given the chance to vote on the performers that become finalists. Acts become eligible 25 years after the release of their first record, and are judged based on the “influence and significance of the artists’ contributions to the development and perpetuation of rock and roll.” You can see the full list of previous inductees here.

Inevitably, when only six to eight performers are selected each year, many acts are left out, which is...

A quarter-century ago, frustrated by Hollywood’s paucity of good roles for middle-aged women, Bette Milder renounced the industry, declaring, “Movies are over for me.” Today, at 78, with a new comedy in theaters and a handful of other flicks burbling in development, she’s obviously had second thoughts. “When did I say that?” she asks. “I must have been in the dumps. I’m often in the dumps.”

Any artist might find themselves in the dumps, and Midler, an admitted chronic tsuris sufferer, may have spent periods of her six-decade-plus career feeling down, even momentarily out of fashion, but she inevitably locates one opportunity or another to propel herself up. Because Midler can do it all — sing, act, tell jokes and hoof pretty well, too, even imprisoned onstage in a mermaid costume — her career has been marked by a kind of Whac-a-Mole movement around the industry, flourishing in one genre...

An industry activist has launched a new initiative calling for major stakeholders to adopt or expand policies to combat sexual abuse in the workplace and in the recording studio, a move that follows a wave of sexual misconduct allegations against high profile artists and executives late last year.

Songwriter-advocate Tiffany Red and her organization the 100 Percenters first announced the Safe Music Business initiative in January, and she officially launched the program last week. With the initiative, Red is looking for the industry at large to sign the Safe Music Business Pledge,...

The 2024 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees were announced live on ABC this evening by Ryan Seacrest and 2022 inductee Lionel Richie during the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Night” episode of “American Idol,” where the Top 14 finalists took on songs from legendary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductees as America voted live for the Top 12. See the full class of 2024 inductees below.

See Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Mariah Carey, Cher should be inducted in 2024 [Poll Results]

Performer Category:

Mary J. Blige Cher Dave Matthews Band Foreigner Peter Frampton Kool & The Gang Ozzy Osbourne A Tribe Called Quest

Musical Influencer Award:

Alexis Korner Big Mama Thornton John Mayall

Musical Excellence Award:

Dionne Warwick Jimmy Buffett MC5 Norman Whitfield

Ahmet Ertegun Award:

Suzanne de Passe

Music’s highest honor, the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction will be live on Saturday, October 19, at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, Ohio.

Four survivor-led advocacy organizations — including those founded by former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson and California Governor Gavin Newsom’s wife and filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom — published a letter and report on Wednesday calling for the music business to take further action regarding sexual misconduct across the industry.

The report, titled “Sound Off: The Make Music Safe Report” compiled decades of previously disclosed allegations against over two dozen prominent artists and industry executives such as Sean “Diddy” Combs, Axl Rose, Anti-Flag’s Justin Geever, composer Danny Elfman, former Def Jam head Russell Simmons,...

The surge of sexual-abuse lawsuits that hit some of the music industry’s most powerful figures last week isn’t over yet, several lawyers tell Rolling Stone.

Last week, as the window for New York’s Adult Survivors Act (Asa) was nearing a close, it brought forward one of the widest sets of allegations to hit the industry in years as renowned artists and executives including Axl Rose, Sean “Diddy” Combs, L.A. Reid, and Jimmy Iovine all faced lawsuits that detailed allegations of sexual abuse.

The act — which opened...

Robert Plant briefly put aside his differences with one of his greatest adversaries — “Stairway to Heaven” — and performed the Led Zeppelin opus for the first time in 16 years at a benefit concert organized by Duran Duran’s Andy Taylor.

The last time Plant played “Stairway to Heaven” on stage was Dec. 10, 2007, when the surviving members of Led Zeppelin — Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones — reunited for a one-night-only set at an Ahmet Ertegun tribute concert in London (the band was joined by John Bonham’s son, Jason, on drums...

Los Angeles, Feb 6 (Ians) On the eve of the 65th Grammy Awards, the music industry’s glitterati were jazzed for the chance to resume the tradition of coming together for a night of tributes, shout-outs and impressive displays of talent, reports ‘Variety’.

Here are a few things ‘Variety’ learned from Clive Davis’s pre-Grammy Gala at the Beverly Hilton on Saturday evening (U.S. Pacific Time).

* Swiss Beatz does a spot-on Davis impression.

* Atlantic Records’ Julie Greenwald is a “bad-ass bitch” in Cardi B’s estimation.

* Elvis Costello considers Nick Lowe “his hero”.

* Joni Mitchell digs the sound of Latto’s ‘Big Energy’.

* It’s still a ton of fun to sing along with Frankie Valli, especially when he’s backed by four Italian rockers with swagger to spare.

* Atlantic Records’ Craig Kallman spent his childhood studying the fine print of album credits, searching for ‘mythic’ names such as Ahmet Ertegun,...

Bob and I started spending more time in Detroit, his hometown. We had our big family wedding there, where Bob Seger and Hank Williams Jr. sang for us. Our life in Detroit was full of music. I took for granted all those nights with Hank, Zz Top, Uncle Kracker, Eminem, and Bob’s band. To be around such talent was inspiring. It was a true rock-and-roll lifestyle, gritty and soulful. Detroit had an energy all its own.

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Clive Davis’ white-hot pre-Grammy gala is returning for the first time since 2020 and the event will honor Atlantic Records executives Julie Greenwald and Craig Kallman.

The Recording Academy and Davis announced Thursday that Greenwald and Kallman will receive the 2023 Grammy Salute to Industry Icons Award at the powerhouse event Feb. 4, 2023, a night before the 65th annual Grammy Awards.

Kallman is the CEO and chairman of Atlantic Records and Greenwald is the CEO and chairman of the newly formed Atlantic Music Group, the home to Atlantic Records and 300 Elektra, a merger of 300 Entertainment and Elektra Music Group. Artists signed to the label include Bruno Mars, Cardi B, Lizzo, Ed Sheeran, Missy Elliott, Coldplay, Jack Harlow, Kodak Black, Janelle Monáe and YoungBoy Never Broke Again. Atlantic earned 40 nominations at the upcoming Grammys and will celebrate its 75th anniversary next year.

“Respected across the music community,...

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Five women are suing Bill Cosby and multiple companies involved with The Cosby Show under a New York law that temporarily suspends the statute of limitations on sexual assault claims.

The suit alleges the companies facilitated sexual assault by “bestowing Bill Cosby with power or the appearance of power at The Cosby Show and beyond.” It also claims they knew or should have known that “Cosby was sexually abusing, assaulting, and/or battering women, including on their premises, but did nothing to stop it” and profited from the public perception that he was “America’s Dad.”

Most of the claims date back to the late 1980s and early 1990s: Lili Bernard says she met Cosby while working on The Cosby Show and was drugged and raped; Eden Tirl says she was assaulted in his dressing room during the taping of an episode; Jewel...

Nearly a week after a woman sued Ahmet Ertegun and Atlantic Records claiming the record executive sexually assaulted her over 30 years ago, a second woman has come forward alleging that Ertegun assaulted her while she was an employee at the label, and that Atlantic enabled his behavior.

Dorothy Carvello, who served as Ertegun’s assistant before becoming Atlantic’s first female A&r executive in the early 1990s, claimed in a lawsuit filed in New York Supreme Court on Sunday that Ertegun physically and sexually assaulted her on numerous occasions...

A talent scout who worked with Atlantic Records from the 1980s to the mid-2000s sued the label and the estate of its founder Ahmet Ertegun on Monday, accusing the deceased record executive of multiple instances of sexual assault and claiming that Atlantic did little to stop Ertegun’s alleged behavior.

Jan Roeg, who started working with the label in 1984, alleged that Ertegun had sexually harassed and assaulted her numerous times throughout her tenure working with Atlantic, according to the lawsuit. Ertegun is widely credited as one of the most...

Bruce Springsteen’s soul covers record Only The Strong Survive lands November 11, and he’s just shared a video for “Don’t Play That Song,” which you can check out right here.

The 1962 song was written by Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun and Betty Nelson, the wife of Ben E. King. The original rendition was released by King on his 1962 LP Don’t Play That Song!, but the most memorable rendition arrived in 1970 when Aretha Franklin covered it on her album Spirit in the Dark. It’s also been recorded by Mariah Carey,...

A shareholder activist in the music industry has invoked a little-known statute within Delaware’s corporate laws, hoping to require Warner Music Group to share any records it has related to sexual misconduct allegations within the company.

Dorothy Carvello, a former A&r executive at Wmg-owned Atlantic Records and the author of the memoir Anything for a Hit: An A&r Woman’s Story of Surviving the Music Industry, filed her request last week, demanding that one of the biggest record label conglomerates supply copies of all complaints filed...

Darryl Hall and John Oates were fresh-off-the-plane clueless. It was fall 1971 and they’d come to California seeking the same thing as everyone else who comes to California — for them, it just manifested as a record contract. All they had were their instruments, songs, and a contact at the publishing company Chappell Music. They didn’t even know you needed a car to get around Los Angeles.

“We were kind of stuck,” Oates tells Rolling Stone, remembering how they drifted from hotel to bar to greasy spoon to label lunches that went nowhere.

Norma Jean Bell is probably best known as a legend of Detroit house, largely thanks to her mid-Nineties club classic “I’m the Baddest Bitch (In the Room).” But the singer, songwriter, and ace saxophonist had been making music for decades at that point, working as a touring and studio pro with everyone from Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention to Stevie Wonder.

Around 1980, Bell was eying a solo career, and a demo she made wound up in the hands of Earl McGrath, the then-president of Rolling Stones Records.

For years now, one common question among advocates of the #MeToo movement is when the music industry will face its own reckoning. Musicians like Ryan Adams, Marylin Manson and R. Kelly alongside powerful executives like Russell Simmons and Charlie Walk have all faced accusations following decades of alleged misconduct, but that hardly scratches the service. A new advocacy foundation is done waiting.

The Face the Music Now foundation, launched Thursday, bills itself as first-ever group focused specifically on helping survivors of sexual harassment and abuse in the music business get...

Eve Babitz, a writer and once-and-future “it” girl closely identified with the 1960s and early-’70s in Los Angeles, has died at 78.

Relatives confirmed her death on social media as well as to the Associated Press, but did not specify a cause.

Part-West Coast wild child, part-boho intellectual, Eve once described herself as a “stacked eighteen-year-old blonde on Sunset Boulevard… who is also a writer.” A famous image from 1963 shows her playing chess against Dadaist artist and writer Marcel Duchamp, with Babitz completely naked and Duchamp fully clothed.

As a writer and creative muse, Babitz had a wide-ranging impact, drawing comparisons to Joan Didion, who recommended a piece of hers to Rolling Stone, kick-starting her writing career. She also ventured outside the world of letters, designing album covers for Buffalo Springfield, the Byrds and Linda Ronstadt. She had romantic connections with notable figures like Jim Morrison of the Doors, Harrison Ford,...

The team behind the Lifetime documentary series Surviving Jeffrey Epstein is turning its attention to the music industry.

Anne Sundberg and Ricki Stern are taking on the Dorothy Carvello expose Anything for a Hit as their next project. Stern and Sundberg’s Break Thru Films will team up on the documentary series project with One Foot Forward Entertainment, the New York Post reported.

Carvello, the first female A&r talent scout for Atlantic Records who began as the legendary Ahmet Ertegun’s secretary at the label, published her dishy book in 2018.

“The series will feature key interviews with major label executives and artists whose stories illustrate the power and sexual dynamics that are tied to success in the music world,” said a statement from the producers. “Carvello’s singular perspective on the music industry — as a woman and as a key insider at a major label — offers a powerful lens...

On Thursday, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss announced details of their long-rumored reunion album Raise the Roof. It’s a 12-track collection that features their original tune “High and Lonesome,” as well as covers of Lucinda Williams’ “Can’t Let Go,” Calexico’s “Quattro (World Drifts In),” and Geeshie Wiley’s “Last Kind Word Blues.”

In a statement, Krauss said she knew it was time to re-form the duo when she heard the Calexico song. “[That] was the moment I knew we’d make another album,” she said. “We wanted it to move.

“Do you see this poster?” the veteran female musician says, proudly pointing toward a framed club ad in her home in Woodstock, New York. “What does it say? ‘Beauty and the Beat’!”

The woman doing the talking — in a casual white blouse, reddish-blond hair framing her ruddy face — isn’t a member of the Go-Go’s, nor is she referring to that group’s first and most enduring album. Today, she’s mostly known as Genya Ravan, but decades ago, she was Goldie, lead singer of one of the most...

Roger Hawkins, a drummer who powered the famed Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section on hits by Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, and the Staple Singers, died Thursday following an extended illness. He was 75 and his death was announced by the Muscle Shoals Music Foundation on Facebook.

As part of the Muscle Shoals Music Section – affectionately known as the Swampers – Hawkins was the backbone of scores of pop, soul, R&b, and rock hits.

The 2013 documentary, Muscle Shoals, spotlighted the talent of the recording team. Hawkins most notable successes included working with Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett, on the massive hits Respect, Think, Chain of Fools, Mustang Sally and Land of 1000 Dances. He also played drums on the Staple Singers’ iconic I’ll Take You There.

Hawkins was born in Indiana and moved to Alabama as a teenager. Hawkins backed local singer Percy Sledge on When a Man Loves a Woman, which quickly...

On October 2nd, 1995, weeks after the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opened its doors in Cleveland, Ohio, Rolling Stone founder and then-Hall of Fame chairman Jann Wenner sent a letter to CBS disc jockey Norm N. Nite.

“With all the hoopla past us, I just want to take a moment to go on record and thank you for linking Cleveland to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation in the first place,” he wrote. “Without your being there and doing the right thing at the right time...

In 1971, Peter Guralnick published Feel Like Going Home, which told the story of the blues through a series of revelatory profiles of Muddy Waters, Skip James, Howlin’ Wolf, and more. He ended the book with a goodbye: “I consider this chapter a swan song,” wrote Guralnick, who was 27 at the time. “Not only to the book but to my whole brief critical career. Next time you see me I hope I will be my younger, less self-conscious and critical self. It would be nice to just sit back and listen...

Last year, Jason Isbell came home to his wife and bandmate, Amanda Shires, and played her a duet he’d just recorded with Barry Gibb. “She said, ‘That’s the best I’ve heard you sing,'” Isbell says. “I said, ‘Well, I was singing with Barry Gibb. I had to do my absolute best.'”

Isbell may be a rootsy songwriter from Alabama, but he’s been a Bee Gees fan his entire life. The song he and Gibb recorded, “Words of a Fool,” appears on Gibb’s upcoming album,...

The seemingly endless “Stairway to Heaven” legal battle between Led Zeppelin and Spirit finally came to an end this week when the Supreme Court refused to take the case. This means that the original jury decision that Zeppelin did not rip off Spirit’s “Taurus” now stands forever.

It’s amazing that the highest court in the land had to contemplate this matter even briefly, considering that they’re weeks away from a hearing about the future of Obamacare. Call us crazy, but deciding whether or not millions of people...

Following Michelle Obama is no easy task, but the duo of Billy Porter and Stephen Stills stepped up with a virtual performance of “For What It’s Worth” during the opening night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

While Stills first wrote and sang the song — which is perhaps better known by its subtitle, “Stop, Hey, What’s That Sound?” — as a member of Buffalo Springfield in 1967, it has become a generation-spanning protest anthem for times when the world seems particularly upside-down, for political reasons and otherwise. Between the Trump presidency, coronavirus and Black Lives Matter, there have been plenty of potential uses for the song in recent months, and Porter covered it earlier this year.

“Billy did such a great cover of the song and I was [originally] going to sing with him on this one for the DNC,” Stills tells Variety of Monday night’s performance (which was pre-recorded). “But then I decided ‘Nah,...

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has canceled plans for a live induction ceremony this year because of the Covid-19 pandemic and will instead honor the class of 2020 with an HBO special on Saturday, November 7th.

The honorees this year are Depeche Mode, the Doobie Brothers, Whitney Houston, Nine Inch Nails, the Notorious B.I.G., T-Rex and Ahmet Ertegun Award honorees Jon Landau and Irving Azoff.

“To protect the health and safety of our Inductees, their families, crews and our attendees, we’ve made the decision that the...

An HBO November special honoring this year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees will replace the annual spring induction ceremony due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Hall’s Foundation announced today.

The program, set for Nov. 7 on HBO and HBO Max, will honor 2020 inductees Depeche Mode, The Doobie Brothers, Whitney Houston, Nine Inch Nails, The Notorious B.I.G., T-Rex, and Ahmet Ertegun Award recipients Jon Landau and Irving Azoff.

“To protect the health and safety of our Inductees, their families, crews and our attendees, we’ve made the decision that the scheduled live event is not possible,” said John Sykes, Chairman of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation. “Together with HBO and executive producer Joel Gallen, we will still create an exciting program honoring our 2020 inductees, by telling the stories of their incredible contributions to music and impact on a generation of artists that followed them.”

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Led Zeppelin will be holding an exclusive YouTube streaming event for the band’s concert film Celebration Day, chronicling their 2007 tribute concert to Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun. The film will be available on Led Zeppelin’s YouTube channel in its entirety for just three days, premiering Saturday, May 30th at 3:00 p.m. Et.

The concert depicted in Celebration Day took place at London’s O2 Arena on December 10th, 2007, with founding Led Zeppelin members John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant taking the stage with Jason Bonham,...

Signing an artist to a record deal is a lot like dating, says Pete Ganbarg, president of A&r over at Atlantic Records. But Ganbarg — who has brought in Twenty One Pilots and Christina Perri, as well as the blockbuster cast albums/soundtracks to Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, and The Greatest Showman — says the job of an A&r executive has been completely turned on its head since the pandemic lockdown began prohibiting people from traveling, taking meetings, and going to shows two months ago.

A&r, shorthand for Artists & Repertoire,...

Sean “Diddy” Combs will receive the 2020 Industry Icon award at Clive Davis’ annual pre-Grammys gala, the Recording Academy announced Wednesday.

“Clive Davis and Arista Records gave me a chance when I was starting Bad Boy Records, he was one of the first industry executives to really believe in me. I’m forever grateful for him,” Diddy said in a statement. “To be honored at this year’s Pre-Grammy Gala and receive the Industry Icons Award is truly a blessing.”

Diddy, a three-time Grammy winner, will be honored at the January 25th,...

When the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame announced that Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner would be stepping down from his longtime post as chairman next year, the big question was whether changes would be on the horizon for the storied institution. John Sykes, iHeartMedia’s president of entertainment enterprises, pledges that there will be. “It will continue to evolve,” Sykes tells Rolling Stone. “Because if it doesn’t, it will become irrelevant.”

Sykes will succeed Wenner — who founded Rolling Stone in 1967 and co-founded the Hall of Fame in 1983 before taking...

Malcolm John Rebennack Jr., who died Thursday at age 77, was a onetime Catholic schoolboy who remade himself into a bona fide high priest of funk — and a lifelong ambassador of gritty, glittery New Orleans groove.

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011, Dr. John — the name and characterization he adopted in 1968 with the release of the landmark Gris Gris album, based in part on stories of a 19th-century voodoo priest — earned 15 Grammy nominations and six wins during a career that spanned more than 50 years. He beat drug addiction,...

In the Netflix biopic “The Dirt,” Pete Davidson of “Saturday Night Live” fame portrays A&R exec Tom Zutaut, the man who signed Motley Crue to Elektra and Guns N’ Roses to Geffen, while veteran character actor David Costabile is manager Doc McGhee. They follow in a long and illustrious line of label executives portrayed on screen, ranging from critical and box-office hits like “Ray” and “La Bamba” to lesser-seen music pics like “Cbgb” and “The Runaways.” Here’s our list of 10 of the most memorable:

1. Steven Coogan as Tony Wilson (“24 Hour Party People”). Coogan’s brilliant portrayal of the Manchester icon and Factory Records founder in Michael Winterbottom’s 2002 film also includes great turns from Paddy Considine as Rob Gretton, the manager of Joy Division and New Order who passed away in 1999, and “Lord of the Rings” star Andy Serkis as Martin Hannett, the noted producer and Factory partner...

“Men are going to try to break you,” one of Dorothy Carvello’s teachers told her in grade school — and, she says, they were words that seemed to prove true every day she worked in the record industry. Carvello began as a secretary to legendary Atlantic Records president and co-founder Ahmet Ertegun in the Eighties, later rising to be the record label’s first female A&R executive. She was fired from the company after she refused to sit on the lap of a male colleague in a boardroom meeting.

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Aretha Franklin waived her fee to headline the Sam Cooke tribute I produced some years ago. It was the 2005 American Music Masters series, held at the Cleveland Playhouse and hosted by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In Aretha’s case, waiving the fee didn’t mean it was cheap. Traveling light wasn’t her thing. She didn’t fly, so we needed to rent a bus to get her in from Detroit. Hair, make-up, band members, a couple bodyguards, a few people with uncertain roles. By the time we calculated the total,...

Sire Records co-founder Seymour Stein — who signed and released albums by Madonna, the Ramones, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, the Smiths, the Pretenders, and many others — will be leaving Warner Music Group after four decades with the company, it was announced Wednesday. The announcement was made in tandem with Stein receiving the Recording Academy’s Trustees Award on Saturday night at the organization’s Special Merit Awards ceremony and tribute concert in Los Angeles. Last year, Rani Hancock was named president of Sire, which was acquired by Warner in 1978, and will helm the label going forward.

“I’ve enjoyed much of my time at Warner’s, but in truth I long for my indie roots and the greater independence that I experienced back in the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s,” Stein (pictured above with David Byrne and Madonna) said in making the announcement. “So the time has come to move on to...

Congratulations, Mr. Carter!

On Tuesday, the Recording Academy announced that Jay-Z will be bestowed with the Salute to Industry Icons Award at the 2018 Grammy Awards.

"We are absolutely thrilled and delighted to honor Jay-Z with this year's Grammy Salute to Industry Icons Award. His contributions as an industry trailblazer and music visionary only begin to touch on the tremendous impact he's made both in entertainment and beyond," Recording Academy President Neil Portnow said of the 21-time Grammy winner. "Jay-Z also embodies the vibrant spirit of New York City and we couldn't imagine a more fitting honoree as we return to Manhattan for this year's Grammy Awards."

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With the honor, Jay-Z joins the ranks of past winners: Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, Irving Azoff, Martin Bandier, Richard Branson, Clive Davis, Ahmet Ertegun, David Geffen, Berry Gordy, Lucian Grainge, Debra L. Lee, Doug Morris...

The Tj Martell Foundation for Cancer Research has announced its presenters and performers for the 42nd New York Honors Gala to be held Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at Guastavino’s in New York beginning with a red carpet arrival at 6:00 p.m.

Presenters Clive Davis and model Winnie Harlow have been named two of the presenters at the star-studded event. Clive Davis will present Julie Swidler, Executive Vice President, Business Affairs & General Counsel of Sony Music Entertainment with the Lifetime Music Industry Award and supermodel Winnie Harlow will present Sarah Stennett, CEO & Co-Founder of First Access Entertainment with the Spirit of Music Award. A special guest presenter will be announced for honoree Steve Boom.

Performances by Kane Brown, Elle King, Bill Murray with Jan Vogler & Friends and Matthew Ramsey of Old Dominion have also been announced. More celebrity announcements will be made later in the week.

Red Carpet begins at 6:00 p.

Clive Davis and the Recording Academy’s annual pre-Grammy gala will honor longtime entertainment industry executive Irving Azoff on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016, the night before the 58th Annual Grammy Awards. The Recording Academy will present Azoff with the President’s Merit Award as part of its 2016 Grammy Salute to Industry Icons. The annual invitation-only fundraising event has in the past has honored David Geffen, Richard Branson, Berry Gordy, Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, Richard Branson, Clive Davis and Ahmet Ertegun. For the past eight years, the Recording Academy has collaborated on the event with veteran recording executive Clive Davis, who was.

Christian Dior and Coco Chanel calligraphy dresses with a clip from Zhang Yimou's Hero edited by Wong Kar Wai Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

With the John Singer Sargent exhibition, Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends, organised by the National Portrait Gallery, London in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art opening today, here is the second half of my conversation with Gay Talese on the seduction of fashion and film at China: Through The Looking Glass.

Myrna Loy, Anna May Wong, Callot Soers, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, Mila Parély in Jean Renoir's The Rules Of The Game, Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar, Cesar Romero, Tyrone Power, Vincente Minnelli's Meet Me in St. Louis plus Ziegfeld Follies, Fred Astaire and the Duke of Windsor were conjured up. Gay told me about meeting Gene Kelly, Marcello Mastroianni and Federico Fellini during La Dolce Vita and we discussed tailoring while strolling...

This story first appeared in the Nov. 14 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. 1. The Juilliard School New York Some students call it "Jailyard," but only 6.7 percent of applicants are admitted (with 90 percent receiving scholarships covering two-thirds of tuition). "It's fantastic, with every program imaginable," says alum Mark Snow, who scored The X-Files. In 1967, he started the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble with fellow oboe student Michael Kamen, played a Juilliard Halloween party, wowed Leonard Bernstein, got signed to Atlantic Records by Ahmet Ertegun and wound up, like Oscar nominee

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New York (AP) — Paul Stanley of Kiss wants to shout it out loud: The band is miffed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for not inducting members Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer along with the original lineup. Kiss is scheduled to be inducted into the Rock Hall on April 10 in New York City. But Stanley said in an interview Friday with The Associated Press that he doesn't think the Rock Hall is being fair and that the organization has altered their rules for other acts. "We have continuing issues with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, starting with the fact that they chose to only induct the original lineup when that's hardly the case with other bands," he said from Los Angeles. "In the Grateful Dead's case, (they) also inducted a writer who never played an instrument," said Stanley, referring to Robert Hunter's inclusion when...

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will induct Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, Kiss, Nirvana, Linda Ronstadt, and Cat Stevens as the Class of 2014. The ceremony will be held April 10 in New York City at the Barclays Center and televised in May on HBO. An act is eligible to be on the ballot 25 years after its first release, so Nirvana makes the cut on its first try. The other five artists have waited for years to be inducted. Also being honored are The E Street Band with the Award for Musical Excellence, and Beatles manager Brian Epstein and Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham with the Ahmet Ertegun Award for non-performers. Rolling Stone. Lifetime is developing a TV movie about the behind-the-scenes drama of "Today" surrounding the ouster of Ann Curry. Liz Gateley and Tony Disantos will produce the project, based on the Brian Stelter book "Top of the...

Nirvana will officially join the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April’s induction ceremony. So will two acts that couldn’t be less like Nirvana, Hall and Oates and Kiss. In the performer category, the three acts will be joined by Peter Gabriel, Linda Ronstadt and Cat Stevens. Receiving this year’s Ahmet Ertegun Awards are Brian Epstein and Andrew Loog Oldham. Bruce Springsteen’s group, The E Street Band will accept the Award for Musical Excellence. Some notable nominees who were passed over this year include rappers Nwa and LL Cool J. See video: Katy Perry Caught in Egregious ‘Roar’ Lip-Sync Performance,...

var brightcovevideoid = '2942784067001'; Nirvana, Kiss and Peter Gabriel will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year. The Rock Hall announced Tuesday that Hall and Oates, Linda Ronstadt, and Cat Stevens also will be inducted April 10 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Artists are eligible for induction 25 years after their first release. Nirvana received a nomination in its first year of eligibility and next year the band will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its debut, Bleach. The induction comes 20 years after frontman Kurt Cobain committed suicide at age 27. This year also marked first-time nominations for Hall and Oates,...