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Q&A
with Danny Goldberg Danny Goldberg,
President of Gold Village Entertainment(GVE) has worked in the music
business as a personal manager, record company President, public relations
man and journalist since the late nineteen sixties. GVE, formed in July,
2006 manages the careers of Steve Earle and Allison Moorer. GVE also
has formed a new label, Ammal Records, in partnership with New West
Records distributed by RED. This marks a return
to personal management for Goldberg. From 1983-1992, Goldberg was the
founder and President of Gold Mountain Entertainment, a personal management
firm whose clients included Nirvana, Hole, Sonic Youth, Bonnie Raitt,
The Allman Brothers, Rickie Lee Jones,Allanah Myles, Tom Cochrane and
the Beastie Boys. Directly prior
to the creation of Gold Village, Goldberg had been CEO of Air America
Radio from 2005 until mid 2006. (He remains Vice-Chairman of Air America
Radio). Goldberg formed
the indie label Artemis Records in 1999 and ran until January of 2005.
(He remains a consultant to Sheridan Square Entertainment). Artemis
was the number one U.S. indie label in terms of market share form 2001-2003.
It released the last three albums of Warren Zevon’s career including
the Grammy winning “The Wind,”, five albums by Steve Earle including
his Grammy winner “The Revolution Starts Now,” as well as gold albums
by Kittie, Kurupt and Khia. Artemis also released the multi-platinum
album by the Baha Men, “Who Let The Dogs Out,” as well as albums
by The Pretenders, Rickie Lee Jones and Jimmy Vaughn. Prior to forming
Artemis and prior to the acquisition of Polygram by Universal in 1998,
Goldberg was Chairman and CEO of the Mercury Records Group, which was
the number one U.S. label group in terms of market share in 1998. The
Mercury Records Group included music form virtually all major genres,
pop, R&B, hip-hop, country, jazz and rock and roll via its
labels Deutsche Gramophone, Verve, Motown, Def-Jam, Mercury and Mercury
Nashville all of which reported to and were supervised by Goldberg. Prior to coming
to Mercury, Goldberg was Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Records in
1995, during which time Warner Bros. was the number one U.S. record
label. In 1993-94, he was President of Atlantic Records, also
a division of the Warner Music Group, which likewise attained the number
one ranking among U.S. companies during Goldberg’s tenure. Earlier in his
career, Goldberg formed and co-owned Modern Records, which released
Stevie Nicks’ solo albums including her number one album “Bella
Donna”. Prior to that Goldberg was Vice-President of Led Zeppelin’s
Swan Song Records. In 1980, Goldberg
co-produced and co-directed the rock documentary feature, “No Nukes”,
starring Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, and Jackson Browne.
In 2004 he was the Executive Producer of the documentary about Steve
Earle, “Just An American Boy.” He was the Executive Producer of
the multi-platinum soundtrack of music form the TV series “Miami Vice”
and was the Music Supervisor on numerous feature films including “Dirty
Dancing.” Goldberg began
his career as a music journalist having written for, among others,
Rolling Stone, The Village Voice
and Billboard (for whom he reviewed the 1969 Woodstock Festival).
He is author of the book “How The Left Lost Teen Spirit.” |
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