Jeff Ayeroff

Naked Lunch

Straw Hut Media

Arts, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.9 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Phil and David share a far-ranging "Lunch" conversation with Jeff Ayeroff, the legendary record executive about his remarkable career as a visionary creative force in the music industry at A&M, Warner Brothers Record, co-founding Virgin America and The Work Group and for The Beatles at Apple. Jeff shares his experiences working with everyone from Peter Frampton and The Police, to Madonna, Prince and Talking Heads to Paula Abdul, Janet Jackson and Lenny Kravitz, among so many others, and reflects on Rock The Vote, which he founded in 1990. To learn more about building community through food and "Somebody Feed the People," visit the Philanthropy page at philrosenthalworld.com. You can also buy tickets to see "Naked Lunch" live at Palace of Fine Arts Theatre on January 25th, 2025 here.

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0:00.0	David, hi.
0:04.4	Hey, Phil.
0:05.4	We, uh, you know, we have this little Thursday lunch group and you've been to lunch with us.
0:11.2	And you know this guy that comes, uh, Jeff Aeroff.
0:14.7	And you've known him for years, right?
0:16.4	I met Jeff right probably before I met you.
0:19.6	So it's been a long time.
0:20.8	Yeah.
0:21.0	And Jeff was always the coolest guy in the record business, which is, that's a real competition.
0:28.0	But when I met him, he was running Virgin in America.
0:31.4	He created Virgin Records.
0:32.5	He and his partner, Jordan Harris.
0:34.5	And he was very high up at A&M records and Warner Brothers records and Sony music.
0:40.4	I mean, this is one of the great characters.
0:42.8	Oh, you'll hear amazing stories.
0:44.4	This is literally the guy who, you know, he's in the room when they make that Frampton
0:47.7	comes a live cover.
0:48.8	If you've heard our Peter Frampton episode, we talked about that.
0:51.9	Going to Warner Brothers Prince.
0:54.0	Madonna. I mean mean it's unbelievable the
0:56.7	artists that he's worked with and and all the way up to the Beatles yeah incredible
1:01.8	all right ladies and gentlemen here's Jeff Aero
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