Clive Davis to Publish Autobiography in February 2013

Posted on September 18, 2012

Music mogul Clive Davis will publish his autobiography with Simon & Schuster in February 2013. Davis collaborated with music journalist Anthony DeCurtis for the book about his life and music career. This will be Davis's second book. His previous book, Clive: Inside The Record Business, was a New York Times bestseller.

Jonathan Karp, publisher of the Simon & Schuster imprint, said in a statement, "There was a unanimous opinion within Simon & Schuster that we had to publish this author. No one has had a life, or a career, quite like the one described by Clive Davis in these remarkable and fascinating pages."

Here are some highlights of stories covered in the upcoming autobiography:

Insight into Davis� relationship with the late Whitney Houston
How he convinced Simon & Garfunkel to allow the release of a soundtrack album to the Mike Nichols film The Graduate, which includes the "Mrs. Robinson" anthem.
A chance encounter with John Lennon in an Upper West Side coffee shop where the former Beatle revealed to a very surprised Davis he never listens to contemporary radio. "Clive, do you think Picasso went to the galleries to see what's being painted before he put a brush to canvas?"
How he persuaded a young Bob Dylan to release "Lay Lady Lay" as a single off Nashville Skyline.
His insistence that Bruce Springteen needed to add more singles to his debut Greetings From Asbury Park, New Jersey prompted The Boss to go back to the drawing board. As Springsteen himself later said, "I went to the beach and wrote 'Blinded by the Light' and 'Spirit in the Night'... That was a good call. They ended up being two of my favorite songs on the record.�
Janis Joplin propositioning Davis to go to bed together to celebrate her contract signing (he politely declined).