Adlib to Fade

25 May 2014

David Geffen – from Asylum to Dreamworks

Documentary excerpt, Interview, Music, Soundscape

BED: Thomas Newman – Any other name (American Beauty soundtrack – Dreamworks)
DOCUMENTARY Excerpt 1: Inventing David Geffen – On David Geffen’s LA office in the early 1970s
Crosby Stills and Nash – Carry On (DG Manager)
XTC: – Love on a farm boy’s wages (Geffen)

Gene Clark – The True One
DOCUMENTARY Excerpt 2: Inventing David Geffen – On missing the Vietnam draft and the advantage of being gay in wartime
Laura Nyro – Gibsom Street

BED: Thomas Newman – Dead Already (American Beauty soundtrack – Dreamworks)
DOCUMENTARY Excerpt 3: Inventing David Geffen – On the creation of Asylum and being ditched by Laura Nyro
Rufus Wainwright – Go or go ahead (Dreamworks)
DOCUMENTARY Excerpt 4: Inventing David Geffen – On the unexpected sale of Asylum and backlash from The Eagles
Joni Mitchell – A Free Man in Paris (Asylum)

Teenage Fanclub – Neil Jung
DOCUMENTARY Excerpt 5: Inventing David Geffen – On early failures of Geffen Records and suing Neil Young…….for being Neil Young
Neil Young and the Shocking Pinks – Wonderin’

BED: Thomas Newman – Any other name (American Beauty soundtrack – Dreamworks)
DOCUMENTARY Excerpt 6: Inventing David Geffen – On getting behind Risky Business as one of the first films on Geffen
Tangerine Dream: The Dream is Always the Same (Risky Business soundtrack – Geffen)
DOCUMENTARY Excerpt 7: Inventing David Geffen – On Risky Business and roaring success
Pat Metheny – Last Train Home (Geffen)

Sonic Youth – Theresa’s Sound World (DGC)
INTERVIEW Excerpt 1: Cher on dating David Geffen
Tom Waits – Drunk on the Moon (Asylum)

BED: Thomas Newman – Dead Already (American Beauty soundtrack – Dreamworks)
Neil Young – Computer Age (Geffen)
DOCUMENTARY Excerpt 8: Inventing David Geffen – On selling Geffen Records and becoming a billionaire
Judee Sill – Down where the valleys are low (Asylum)

Sigur Ros – Se Lest (Dreamworks)
DOCUMENTARY Excerpt 9: Inventing David Geffen – Various friends and associates describe David Geffen in three words

Crosby Stills Nash and Young – On My Way Home (Manager and DG’s favourite song)