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Feb 2, 2024 · Legendary music producer Clive Davis remembers too well when Whitney Houston suddenly died over Grammys weekend 12 years ago. “It was painful. First of all, it was shocking. I had been with...
Dec 23, 2022 · Clive Davis Still Watches The Bodyguard When He Misses Whitney Houston. The legendary producer talks about his relationship with the late superstar, and what he thinks of Naomi Ackie’s...
Dec 22, 2022 · Clive Davis and Maureen Crowe Recount the Making of Whitney Houston‘s ‘Bodyguard’ Soundtrack, as Recreated in ‘I Wanna Dance’ Biopic
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Feb 3, 2024 · Clive Davis can still recall what fervor for life and music Whitney Houston had before she died. In a new interview with CNN, the music industry legend and famed mentee of the late pop icon...
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“I don’t do it to provepeople wrong,” scoffs Clive Davis. Clive sits upright in a hard-backed chair and talks for hours on end without losing steam. Clive, in 2021, wears his 89 years like they’re layers of a custom-cut Ermenegildo Zegna — each heap of accolades sending another run of stitching up a sleeve, a hem, adding spark to a cufflink or two ...
Here’s the part of the magazine profilewhere it’d go, “Clive Jay Davis was born in 1933 to working-class parents in Brooklyn, a backdrop that would go on to define so much of his life,” and slide through his career with polite chronology. In Clive’s case, though, nearly every step of his professional life has been documented with such excruciating ...
Yet ghosts swim at the corners, for all the triumphs. Clive professes to have “a healthy respect for failure” — but it’s clear he does not consider the words respectand acceptance to be synonyms. He burns with a visible, hard anger when two loaded words come up: “Columbia,” the first grenade, “Arista,” the second. Despite the decades that stand bet...
The other dark cloud is Whitney, Whitney, Whitney. Clive first set his gaze on Whitney Houston in 1983 at the Upper West Side club Sweetwater’s, where she was backup-singing for her mother Cissy Houston. Whitney took center stage at one point to bolt out “The Greatest Love of All” — a song that Clive happened to have commissioned 10 years earlier f...
Eighty-nine years,and nothing has dulled. Not the grief of his parents, not the still-open abrasions of Columbia and Arista, not the deep obsessive pride, certainly not the wriggling worry in the center of Clive’s chest over every misstep, every perceived slight, every scan of his name in headlines preceded by an adjective he does not prefer. Retir...
It does rain, when it comes down to it. Another thing that Clive can say he’s right about. A few days after I leave Clive’s house with the weather hot and promising, on the night of the homecoming concert, the sky above Manhattan splits open — pours with some sort of appalling, almost punitive, satisfaction over the supposed celebration, smack in t...
Dec 23, 2022 · Early in the film, Houston is discovered by Clive Davis (Stanley Tucci), who, at the urging of A&R Gerry Griffith, watches her perform at the Manhattan nightclub Sweetwater’s, where she’s...
