After 40-plus years in the music business, a man’s gonna have some stories. Veteran music mogul Jimmy Iovine, now head of Apple Music, charmed the Television Critics Association press tour crowd on Saturday with tales of his time in the trenches with everyone from Dr. Dre to John Lennon to U2.
Iovine’s partnership with Dre is the subject of the HBO documentary “The Defiant Ones,” directed by Allen Hughes and set to premiere in the spring. Iovine recalled his first meeting with Dre, not long after Iovine had launched his Interscope Records banner in 1989. What impressed him most was the quality of the sound Dre managed to capture on his landmark Death Row Records recording “The Chronic.”
The low frequencies emanating from the subwoofers that help define the hip-hop had been a huge challenge to capture as a recording. But to Iovine, “Chronic” sounded like “Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ or ‘Sgt. Pepper...
Iovine’s partnership with Dre is the subject of the HBO documentary “The Defiant Ones,” directed by Allen Hughes and set to premiere in the spring. Iovine recalled his first meeting with Dre, not long after Iovine had launched his Interscope Records banner in 1989. What impressed him most was the quality of the sound Dre managed to capture on his landmark Death Row Records recording “The Chronic.”
The low frequencies emanating from the subwoofers that help define the hip-hop had been a huge challenge to capture as a recording. But to Iovine, “Chronic” sounded like “Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ or ‘Sgt. Pepper...
- 1/14/2017
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety - TV News
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