Biography
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Jimmy Iovine, born on March 11 1953, in Brooklyn, New York, is the manager and co-founder, with Ted Field and Tom Whalley, of Interscope Records. He is also a record producer who has worked with bands including Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, U2 and The Pretenders. Iovine also supervised music coordination for the movie Sixteen Candles and others. Prior to that, Iovine was a sound engineer working under legendary producer Phil Spector [1]
He is married to writer and former model Vicki Iovine, author of The Girlfriend's Guide to Pregnancy.
Famed rapper Eminem was discovered when producer Dr. Dre found his demo on Iovine's garage floor after one of his former assistants had found the tape and given it to Iovine.
In 2006, Iovine produced a track for Ashlee Simpson, due on her I Am Me re-release.
Song mentions
Iovine is known by "artists as much more than just another 'suit'" (The Economist, May 6th 2006) as witnessed by rappers approvingly dropping his name in songs:
- "Runnin'" - The Game - "Make yo chest move, Sylvia Rhone and Kevin Lyle slept cool, Jimmy Iovine was the best move"
- No More Fun And Games - The Game - "I mean I hook niggas up to the I.V, the same way Dre hooked me up to Iovine"
- "Gatman and Robbin" - 50 Cent f/ Eminem (Eminem's Verse) - "Just spit ya 16 and do what you gotta do to get through, Without mentionin me or the machine of Jimmy Iovine, Or Dre or 50 or D-Twizzy, Obie and just let it be, Or we'll be [door knockin sound] with a..."
- "Love Me" - Obie Trice - "It's whateva, put that on the chedda man, but in the meantime, it's Jimmy Iovine time."
- "Right About Now" - Talib Kweli - "Jimmy Iovine didn't sign me, I just kinda ended up there."
- "Loose Change" [50 Cent Diss] - Ja Rule - "And Murda Inc. will send their deepest condolences and sympathies to Aftermath, To Shady, Interscope and Jimmy Iovine, Ya know ya team they really some pee-ons, getting peed on, and leaked on."
- "Failure" - Lupe Fiasco - "Please don't Interscope, its gon be a whole lotta Iovine and respiratin’ if I lean out this window with Irene."
- "Rockstar" - Bizarre - "Its been a while, im coming out, running laps around Jimmy Iovine's house
- "Compton" - The Game - "Fans got us Interscope?, like Jimmy Iovine. Cause we RUTHLESS, like Will, before blackeyed peas"
Other mentions
In the Family Guy episode "Don't Make Me Over", Jimmy Iovine signs the Griffin family band to Interscope Records.
Platinum Weird hoax
Jimmy Iovine conceived the controversial Platinum Weird hoax
for the promotion of the new project between David A. Stewart and Kara DioGuardi whose musical collaboration formed in 2004, but is fictionally placed in 1974.
In July of 2006, VH1 premiered a mockumentary entitled Rock Legends – Platinum Weird, an examination of the band’s unusual story, complete with cameo appearances from such rock legends as Mick Jagger, Stevie Nicks, Annie Lennox, Elton John, and Ringo 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 World Wide Web fan sites, some of which registered by the New Media Department of Interscope Records and hosted on the same server as interscope.com weirdos.info WHOIS record. Hosted on 216.193.195.52 (iscopelvw.fullerene.com), the same server as interscope.com. Retrieved on 2006-09-06 weirdshit.biz WHOIS record. Hosted on 216.193.195.52 (iscopelvw.fullerene.com), the same server as interscope.com. Retrieved on 2006-09-06 platinumweirdos.com WHOIS record. Hosted on 216.193.195.52 (iscopelvw.fullerene.com), the same server as interscope.com. Retrieved on 2006-09-06, and related false documents for the "lost" group.
Much of the Platinum Weird story line is apparently identical to an earlier promotion by the unrelated band Unicorn.
Source
- May 6th 2006. "Face Value: Daddy cool", The Economist, p.68.
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