Clive Davis predicted music’s biggest stars like no one else | Alexis Petridis (opens in new tab)

The legendary music executive signed everyone from Patti Smith to Barry Manilow and changed the industry foreverClive Davis always claimed that his life in the music business was really kickstarted when he chose to attend the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival: it was there he saw Janis Joplin and her band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and immediately bought their contract for $200,000, the first really high-profile signing of his career. But Davis was an unlikely fit at the most high-profile ...