YEAR
2010
INDUCTED BY
Jackson Browne
CATEGORY
Ahmet Ertegun Award
Which superstars has David Geffen worked with? There are too many to list.
He founded both Asylum Records and Geffen Records, homes to Guns n’ Roses, Elton John, Nirvana, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon and Bob Dylan at one time or another.
David Geffen
HALL OF FAME
ESSAY
By Anthony DeCurtis
David Geffen once asked Ahmet Ertegun about the key to being successful in the music industry.
“If you’re lucky, you bump into a genius,” the founder of Atlantic Records and co-founder of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame explained, “and a genius will make you rich in the music business.”
Geffen took that advice to heart throughout his long, distinguished career, and that’s one of the reasons why it’s especially appropriate for him to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year as a recipient of the Ahmet Ertegun Award.
