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Freddie Mercury was seated behind billionaire record producer David Geffen on a flight when Geffen turned around with his cheque book and said "I want you to sing on my label, just fill in the amount yourself!". Freddie refused.
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R.E.M. was going to sign with Geffen records, but chose not to because Geffen sued Neil Young for making a record that Geffen didn't like.
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The original concept for the video for Guns 'n Roses "Sweet Child o' Mine" had a theme of drug trafficking. An Asian woman would carry a baby into a foreign land, only to discover at the end that the child was dead and filled with heroin. This concept was rejected by Geffen Records.
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In the early 1980s, executives at Geffen Records recommended the English band Huang Chung change its name, as fans were calling it "Hung Chung". The band agreed, becoming Wang Chung and rising to success in 1984.
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David Geffen (Geffen Records, Dreamworks, DCG Records) around 2013 was said to have owned the most valuable private art collection in the world, estimated its worth at $1.1B at the time. Since then he has sold nearly half that value from just 2 paints for $500 million in 2016.
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The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is named after David Geffen, a recorder producer who forged a document from UCLA saying he had graduated from there in order to get his first job in a mailroom
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After the critical & commercial failures of Neil Young's 1982 electro-rock album 'Trans' and his '83 rockabilly album 'Everybody's Rockin', David Geffen sued him for $3.3 million, on the grounds that the albums were "not commercial" and "musically uncharacteristic of [his] previous recordings."
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Prior to Nirvana's legendary unplugged performance, Kurt Cobain asked David Geffen, the head of Geffen Records, to buy him Lead Belly's guitar for $500,000. David Geffen said he wouldn't do it.
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Neil Young was sued by Geffen Records for intentionally sabotaging his career with the synth-electronic album 'Trans' and a rockabilly album 'Everybody's Rockin'. Young won a countersuit citing creative interference from his label.
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After the release of Everybody's Rockin' (1983) and Trans (1982) had drawn the ire of label head David Geffen for its lack of commercial appeal, Geffen Records sued Neil Young for making music "unrepresentative" of himself.
