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Jimmy Iovine

Overview

James Iovine, (born March 11 1953, in Brooklyn, NY) is Chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M Records, whose artists include U2, Dr. Dre, Sheryl Crow, Mary J. Blige, Eminem, Gwen Stefani, The Black Eyed Peas and The Game. He is also a record producer who has worked with bands including U2, Tom Petty & The Hearbreakers, Stevie Nicks, Dire Straits and Patti Smith. He is also credited with having discovered Eminem. After watching the young rapper place 2nd in the Rap Olympics, he asked for a demo tape, which he then presented to Dr. 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 and has family living in Staten Island, New York.

Other mentions

In the Family Guy episode "Don't Make Me Over", Jimmy Iovine signs the Griffin family band to Interscope Records. In the episode he is serving time in prison for stomping a cat to death.

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 , 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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