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Walter Yetnikoff (August 11, 1933 –
August 9, 2021) was an
American music industry executive who was the
president of CBS
Records International from 1971...
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multichannel music still did not
reach m****-market acceptance. In 1975,
Walter Yetnikoff was
promoted to
become President of
Columbia Records, and his vacated...
- had been
perceived as
against "black music"
until CBS
President Walter Yetnikoff threatened to pull all CBS videos.
Prince and
Jackson had a competitive...
- Productions.
Artie Ripp sold Joel's
first contract to Columbia.
Walter Yetnikoff, the
president of CBS/Columbia
Records at the time,
bought back the rights...
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finally "break the
color barrier", the
president of CBS Records,
Walter Yetnikoff,
denounced MTV in a strong,
profane statement,
threatening to take away...
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Entertainment (then
known as CBS Records) by
Walter Yetnikoff to run its U.S. operations. In 1990, he
succeeded Yetnikoff as
chairman and CEO of the
newly renamed...
- a single, as Epic saw it as a
novelty song. The Epic
executive Walter Yetnikoff asked: "Who
wants a
single about monsters?" By mid-1983,
sales of the...
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Synchronicity by the Police.
Jackson urged the Epic
executives Walter Yetnikoff and
Larry Stessel to help
conceive a plan to
return the
album to the top...
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album was
supported by the
Surprise Tour in 2006. In
March 2004,
Walter Yetnikoff published a book
called Howling at the Moon, in
which he
criticized Simon...
- and said, "Mr.
Yetnikoff, I've got some
ideas for some songs, and I want to do them at the
Criteria Studios in Miami." "Okay,"
Yetnikoff said. "We'll be...
