what did Jimmy Iovene do in the music biz exactly???

[Hack Wilson - real]

 

[Blood$]

rock record producer / label owner

[Hack Wilson - real]

but all he did was sponge off talented people

[Okka]

I've wondered about this too. Did he actually create or produce music?

[Fonkarround]

but all he did was sponge off talented people

as much as i dont like jimmy, you gotta admit he knows how to find those people and get arround them he definetly need to have a good ear for music as well

in my vision - hes a jew, he smells money from miles

[CORREA]

but all he did was sponge off talented people

as much as i dont like jimmy, you gotta admit he knows how to find those people and get arround them he definetly need to have a good ear for music as well

in my vision - hes a jew, he smells money from miles

im so sick of the cliche jew stereotype but Jimmy Iovene was a puppet master 

[bouli77]

I've wondered about this too. Did he actually create or produce music?

as a rock producer yes, when it comes to hip hop he was just an executive

[Dargine]

11 March 1953, Brooklyn, New York. Jimmy started out as an engineer in the mid-1970s for John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, and produced hit albums for U2, Dire Straits, the Eurythmics, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The Pretenders, Bob Seger and Patti Smith.
In the 1980's he was named one of the five hottest producers by Billboard and twice voted producer of the year by Rolling Stone.
In 1989 he founded Interscope Records, introducing artists such as No Doubt, Nine Inch Nails, Limp Bizkit, Enrique Iglesias, Mya and Smash Mouth. In 1992, the gangsta rap label Death Row Records (2) joined the Interscope family with artists like Dr. Dre, 2Pac and Snoop Doggy Dogg.

From Discogs..

[J. B A N A N A S]

Co-founded Interscope. Enough said.

[Hack Wilson - real]

okay so he did have to rise up the ranks so to speak

[doggfather]

Co-founded Interscope. Enough said.

[Blood$]

okay so he did have to rise up the ranks so to speak

well he started off as basically a producer for Nine Inch Nails and stuff like that, eventually working his way up to executive / owner

maybe he first got in the building interning or inherited the job through family, who knows