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Clive Jay Davis (born April 4, 1932) is the founder of Arista Records, J Records, and a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer.

Early Life & Career: The CBS Years
Davis is from a working class Jewish family and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He was named Clive by his mother, who was a great fan of a British actor with that name. Davis graduated Phi Beta Kappa from New York University College of Arts and Science in 1953 and received a scholarship to Harvard Law School. Davis graduated and practiced law in a small firm which folded, then moved on to the firm of Rosenman, Colin, Kaye, Petschek and Freund, which had CBS Records as a client. Davis was then hired by the legal department of CBS subsidiary Columbia Records.

He discovered a passion for music which led him up the ranks of Columbia and CBS. In ...

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