Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 194th episode of Awards Chatter the Hollywood

reporters awards podcast I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is one of the

most powerful and influential people in the history of the music industry he's a

record producer a A&R executive, and record label

Chief who has been nicknamed the Man with the Golden Ear, having discovered and developed

great singers and songwriters for a half century.

First as President of Columbia Records from 1967 through 1973, then as founder and president of

Arista Records from 1974 through 2000, then as founder and president of the

BMWG Finance J Records from 2000 through 2002, then from 2002 through 2008 as

chairman and CEO of RCA Music Group, then from 2008 through 2012 as Chief

Creative Officer of Sony B.M.G.

And since 2012, as Chief Creative officer for all of Sony Music Entertainment.

A four-time Grammy winner who received the Grammy's Trustees Award in 2000

and President's Merit Award in 2009, he became in 2000 the first music executive ever

voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in the non-performers category, and in 2011, the theater

at the Grammys Museum was named in his honor.

Now 85 years old, he's as busy as ever, and is the subject of Chris Perkels,

acclaimed new Apple Music Distributed documentary, Clive Davis, the soundtrack of our lives,

which was inspired by his 2013 memoir, The Soundtrack of My Life.

I'm talking about the legendary Clive Davis.

But first I was joined at the offices of the Hollywood reporter by Brian Fogle, the director of

one of the most acclaimed, gutsy, and impactful documentaries of 2017 or any year, Ickeras. The film started out as a quest by

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