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David Geffen

DAVID GEFFEN

YEAR

2010

INDUCTED BY

Jackson Browne

CATEGORY

Ahmet Ertegun Award

Which superstars has David Geffen worked with? There are too many to list.

He founded both Asylum Records and Geffen Records, homes to Guns n’ Roses, Elton John, Nirvana, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon and Bob Dylan at one time or another.

David Geffen

David Geffen

HALL OF FAME
ESSAY

By Anthony DeCurtis

David Geffen once asked Ahmet Ertegun about the key to being successful in the music industry.

“If you’re lucky, you bump into a genius,” the founder of Atlantic Records and co-founder of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame explained, “and a genius will make you rich in the music business.”

Geffen took that advice to heart throughout his long, distinguished career, and that’s one of the reasons why it’s especially appropriate for him to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year as a recipient of the Ahmet Ertegun Award.

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