Looking for the Magic

<b>This history of Arista Records from its 1960s roots in Bell Records through the transformative success of Whitney Houston in the mid-'80s tells the story of a record label its visionary leader Clive Davis and the artists and genres it embraced and promoted: Barry Manilow Lou Reed Patti Smith the Kinks and many others.</b><br><br>Author Mitchell Cohen a well-known music journalist who served as an A&R executive at Arista interviewed dozens of artists and former colleagues to produce this detailed and thoughtful account of how Arista Records reflected its place and time: New York in the 1970s and early 1980s.