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Jac Holzman (born September 15, 1931) is an American music businessman, the founder, chief executive officer and head of record label Elektra Records and Nonesuch Records. Holzman helped commercially launch the CD and home video formats, as well as the pilot program which became MTV. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.
- If you can’t do what you love, don’t settle. Do something else to get there. The first album released on Elektra in 1950 was New Songs by the folk artist John Gruen.
- Be patient with people, but don’t bother with those who want you dead. A burgeoning singer-songwriter scene erupted in the 1960s, leading to Elektra signing the likes of Judy Collins, Tom Rush, Tim Buckley, Phil Ochs and, in 1970, Carly Simon.
- Forget the mid-life crisis. Aim for mid-life retirement instead. When Holzman merged Elektra into Warner in 1970, personally banking around half of the $10 million deal (before tax), he had escape on his mind.
- The minute you leave, you relinquish control. “Now you’re going to hear the sound of a man crying,” Holzman says, when I raise a personal point of confusion — why Elektra signed Queen for the US in the early 1970s but doesn’t seem to represent the band’s master rights anymore.
Jan 4, 2023 · Jac Holzman, 35-year-old owner of Elektra Records, just arrived on the red-eye from New York, is blearily checking out this new band that club manager Ronnie Haran keeps bugging him about. They’re called The Doors, and Ronnie says they are far out, man, trippy.
Jul 31, 2012 · Jac Holzman Talks ‘The Doors’ – The Doors. July 31, 2012. DCM: Whose idea was the famous 1967 LA billboard? Jac: I saw a billboard and decided it was a good idea. Arthur Lee claims that I stole the idea from him which is not true. . . I had a feeling about the group. But here’s the story of the record release delay [The Doors].
As the founder of Elektra Records and one of the sharpest minds in the history of the music industry, Holzman is one of the rare individuals with a deep, informed perspective on all three of the elements he mentioned.
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Mar 4, 2011 · Hear 11 of the week’s most notable new songs on the Playlist. Jac Holzman, the founder and pioneering chairman of Elektra Records, is being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this...
Elektra Records (or Elektra Entertainment) is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt. [1] . It played an important role in the development of contemporary folk and rock music between the 1950s and 1970s. In 2004, it was consolidated into WMG's Atlantic Records Group.
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