- Jimmy Iovine
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birth_name = James Iovine
birth_date = Birth date and age|1952|3|11
birth_place =Brooklyn, New York , USA
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occupation = Chairman, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, Record producer
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website = http://www.interscope.com
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weight =James Iovine, better known as Jimmy Iovine (born March 11, 1952), is a
music producer ,entrepreneur andchairman ofInterscope-Geffen-A&M .He has worked with bands including
U2 ,Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers ,Three Dog Night ,Stevie Nicks ,Dire Straits ,Patti Smith andBruce Springsteen . He is also credited with having discoveredEminem . After watching the young rapper place 2nd in theRap Olympics , he asked for a demo tape, which he then presented toDr. Dre . In 2002, Iovine co-produced the hit Eminem movie, "8 Mile" and in 2004, he and Paul Rosenberg signed a first-look feature deal with Paramount Pictures and MTV Films for their Interscope/Shady/Aftermath banner.He is married to writer and former model
Vicki Iovine , author of "The Girlfriend's Guide to Pregnancy" has four children and an extended family living inStaten Island ,New York .Platinum Weird hoax
Jimmy Iovine conceived the controversial Platinum Weird hoax cite news | url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/cl-et-weird5jul05,0,6307963,full.story?coll=la-home-entertainment | title=Fact or fiction? It can get a bit Weird | page=E1 | author=Lee, Chris | work=Los Angeles Times | date=
2006-06-05 | accessdate=2006-06-05] for the promotion of the new project betweenDavid A. Stewart andKara DioGuardi whose musical collaboration formed in 2004, but is fictionally placed in 1974. [cite web | url=http://www.psychopedia.com/dailynews/2006/07/platinum_weirdodave_stewart_is.html | title=Platinum Weirdo Dave Stewart Is Having Acid Flashbacks | date=2006-07-05 | work=psychoPEDIA Daily News | accessdate=2006-07-10]In July 2006,
VH1 premiered amockumentary entitled "Rock Legends – Platinum Weird", an examination of the band’s unusual story, complete with cameo appearances from such rock legends asMick Jagger ,Stevie Nicks ,Annie Lennox ,Elton John , andRingo Starr , all reminiscing about the former band’s short-lived heyday and their impressions of the mysterious Erin Grace. The album was further promoted by a series of bogus fan sites, some of which registered by the New Media Department ofInterscope Records and hosted on the same server as interscope.com [weirdos.infoWHOIS record. Hosted on 216.193.195.52 (iscopelvw.fullerene.com), the same server as interscope.com. Retrieved on2006-09-06 ] [weirdshit.bizWHOIS record. Hosted on 216.193.195.52 (iscopelvw.fullerene.com), the same server as interscope.com. Retrieved on2006-09-06 ] [platinumweirdos.comWHOIS record. Hosted on 216.193.195.52 (iscopelvw.fullerene.com), the same server as interscope.com. Retrieved on2006-09-06 ] , and relatedfalse documents for the "lost" group.Much of the Platinum Weird story line is apparently identical to an earlier promotion by the unrelated band Unicorn. [cite web | url=http://popdirt.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=50326 | title=Platinum Weird - Plagiarism? | date=
2006-07-10 | accessdate=2006-07-10 | work=Popdirt] [cite web | url=http://www.cosmicstoryteller.com/ | title=Unicorn's Cosmic Storyteller Home Page | publisher=Unicorn | accessdate=2006-07-10]In Popular Culture
The
Eminem song "Jimmy Crack Corn", which also features50 Cent , is written about Iovine.In the
Family Guy episode "Don't Make Me Over", Jimmy Iovine signs the Griffin family band toInterscope Records .ource
*May 6th 2006. "Face Value: Daddy cool", "The Economist", p.68.
References
External links
* [http://www.artistshousemusic.org/videos/music+industry+profile+jimmy+iovine+of+interscope+records Interview with Artists House Music]
* [http://www.interscope.com Interscope Records]
* [http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/iovine.htm Biography at www.fleetwoodmac.net]
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