CBS Records Group
Japanese-American company
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purchase by Sony Corporation
- In Sony: Diversification and downturn
In 1988 it bought CBS Records Group from CBS Inc. (now CBS Corporation), thus acquiring the world’s largest record company, and the next year it purchased Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc. The Columbia acquisition, the largest to that time of an American company by a Japanese firm, ignited a controversy…
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role of Davis
- In Clive Davis
Soon after becoming president of CBS Records in 1967, he attended the Monterey (California) Pop Festival, where he first saw Janis Joplin perform. The festival opened his eyes to the commercial potential of a new generation of rock musicians. He immediately signed Joplin’s band, Big Brother and the Holding Company,…
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