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Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives

Saturday, May 18 at 8:58pm on MPT

More than mere biography, CLIVE DAVIS: THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES is a guided tour of a cultural revolution that deeply impacted the music industry through the career of a man who consistently caught the next wave before everyone else-if he didn't just create the wave himself. From the '60s to the rise of hip-hop, Davis discovered, mentored, or oversaw an incredible range of performers during his career including: Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen, Simon & Garfunkel, Santana, Miles Davis, Billy Joel, Barry Manilow, Patti Smith, The Grateful Dead, Kenny G, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Sean Combs, Alicia Keys. Many of them are featured, in both archival footage and contemporary interviews, to attest to Davis' singular talent and blessed life, as well as the work that went into one to create the other. In Aretha's words, Davis is "the greatest record man of all time," and this film is definitive, ceaselessly entertaining proof.

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A guided tour of a cultural revolution through the career of a man whom Aretha Franklin calls “the greatest record man of all time".