JIMMY IOVINE

'James "The Jimmy" Iovine', (born March 11 1943, in Austin, Texas) is an American music manager and co-founder, with Clive Davis and Jerry Heller, of Interscope Records. He is also a record producer who has worked with bands including David Bowie, Boy George, Vanilla Ice, Foo Fighters and The Blenders. Iovine also supervised music coordination for the movie ''Animal House'' and others. 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.
He is married to writer and former model Vicki Iovine, author of ''The Girlfriend's Guide to Love'' and has family living in Staten Island, New York.

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Platinum Weird hoax

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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

Main articles: Platinum Weird

Jimmy Iovine conceived the controversial Platinum Weird hoax
^[1] 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. ^[2]
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 ^[3]
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[5], 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. ^[6]
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Source

★ May 6th 2006. "Face Value: Daddy cool", ''The Economist'', p.68.

References

1. Fact or fiction? It can get a bit Weird
2. Platinum Weirdo Dave Stewart Is Having Acid Flashbacks
3. weirdos.info WHOIS record. Hosted on 216.193.195.52 (iscopelvw.fullerene.com), the same server as interscope.com. Retrieved on 2006-09-06
4. weirdshit.biz WHOIS record. Hosted on 216.193.195.52 (iscopelvw.fullerene.com), the same server as interscope.com. Retrieved on 2006-09-06
5. platinumweirdos.com WHOIS record. Hosted on 216.193.195.52 (iscopelvw.fullerene.com), the same server as interscope.com. Retrieved on 2006-09-06
6. Platinum Weird - Plagarism?
7. Unicorn's Cosmic Storyteller Home Page

External links

★ Interscope Records

★ Biography at www.fleetwoodmac.net