Clive Davis recovering after hospitalisation
Legendary producer Clive Davis is recovering at home following a recent hospitalisation.
Clive Davis is recovering at home following a recent hospitalisation.
The 94-year-old Grammy-winning producer - who was instrumental in the careers of the likes of the late Whitney Houston, Barry Manilow, Billy Joel, Aerosmith, and Bruce Springsteen - was admitted to a medical facility on 29 May for undisclosed reasons but is now in "good spirits" and resting back in his own surroundings.
His spokesperson confirmed to People magazine on Thursday (04.06.26): "Clive was discharged from the hospital earlier today. He is in good spirits and happy to be recuperating at home."
Despite his decades of success in the music industry, Clive - who was diagnosed with Bell's palsy, a treatable but explained neurological disorder, in 2021 - previously admitted he never intended his career to head in that direction, having studied a law degree at Harvard Law School.
On leaving Harvard in 1956, Clive was appointed general counsel of Columbia Records and worked his way up, being named vice president and general manager of the company in 1966.
He told Harvard Law Today in September 2017: "Oh, I had none, zero. It was the furthest thing from my mind.
"I had come there right after my college years. My parents had passed away and I had no money, I had the munificent sum of four thousand dollars, I was incredibly grateful for the scholarship that I had and that paid for my tuition, and I really was there to prepare for a legal career—and that only."
But "luck" played a role in Clive's change in direction.
He added: "I liked music but I listened in a very ordinary way, like anyone would listen to the radio.
"I never collected records, or wanted to be a fly on the wall in a studio. I did adopt the philosophy that if you're going to be counsel to a company, you learn everything you can about a business. But even then it never occurred to me that I would be on the music side."
But attending the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967 changed the course of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee's career forever, when he personally signed Janis Joplin's Big Brother and The Holding Company to Columbia.
