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Clive Davis to Be Inducted in Rock Hall of Fame
submitted by: Lisa (webmaster)
source: FOX News
Date: December 6, 1999
They're not going to announce it until tomorrow at 11 a.m., but Arista Records president Clive Davis will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this winter.
Davis will join a select group of non-performers who have been selected for Cleveland museum. Some of the others include Jerry Wexler, Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun, Alan Freed, Leonard Chess, Leo Fender, Les Paul, George Martin and Bill Graham. Davis would be the only active industry leader in the Hall of Fame.
His appointment comes at a tricky time in his career, as Arista's parent company, BMG Bertelsmann Music Group, has been trying to force him to name a successor or leave. Davis, 66, founded Arista in 1974 after running Columbia Records. His acts include Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Prince and the Eurythmics. Last week, NARAS — the group that runs the Grammy Award — announced that Davis would receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from them in February.
Add this to the near-certainty that Davis will be nominated for — if not win — the Producer of the Year award for Santana's Supernatural and other awards at the Grammys for Whitney Houston's "My Love Is Your Love." If BMG does not play the public situation with Davis carefully in the next few weeks, it could spell a true public relations disaster by next winter. Imagine being the person who forced out this multi-award-winning president. In any other field, you'd be the one kicked upstairs yourself, never to be heard from again...
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