In Memoriam June 2026: Clive Davis

Via Goldminemag.com 

June’s music losses include record executive Davis, Bryson, Blood, Sweat & Tears’ Clayton-Thomas, Chicago’s Parazaider, and others.

In the ‘80s, Arista had huge success with Australia’s Air Supply. In a 2025 interview, Air Supply’s Graham Russell told Goldmine the story about their second U.S. single, “All Out of Love.” “Originally it was ‘I’m all out of love. I want to arrest you,’ meaning that I want to get your attention. When I look at that now, I think it was quite a silly lyric, but the song had already been a hit in Australia with that lyric. Clive said that it didn’t matter that it had already been a hit there, and that in the U.S., people wouldn’t understand what that meant. He offered, ‘I’m so lost without you’ to replace the ‘I want to arrest you’ line and I said OK. Of course, he was always right, as we were to learn. It was the beginning of a great relationship with Clive, and ‘All Out of Love’ sold more copies than ‘Lost in Love,’ becoming our first gold single.

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