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Jimmy Iovine
Born 1953-03-11 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
Jimmy Iovine is a trailblazer in music, business, and education. He is the co-founder of Beats Electronics (Beats by Dre) and Beats Music, alongside hip-hop producer and virtuoso Andre “Dr. Dre” Young. He is also the co-founder of Interscope Records, the USC Iovine and Young Academy and the Iovine and Young Center (IYC). In 2022, Iovine was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the Ahmet Ertegun Award. Hailing from the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, Iovine started his career at the famed Record Plant recording studio in his late teens, where vocalists and musicians like John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen were able to bring their musical visions to life. He first worked as a recording engineer — eventually branching out to produce songs for the former Beatles member and “The Boss.” He also worked with Patti Smith, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Dire Straits, Stevie Nicks, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, U2, and The Pretenders. In 1990, Iovine co-founded the record label Interscope Records. Under Iovine, Interscope Records worked to empower artists, ensuring their needs and ideas came first. He turned artists into major hitmakers — with Dr. Dre, Nine Inch Nails, Mary J. Blige, No Doubt, Eminem, the Black Eyed Peas, Kendrick Lamar, Gwen Stefani, and Lady Gaga among the artists Interscope Records signed. Meeting Dr. Dre at Interscope Records led to an ongoing business relationship between the music pioneers. The fashionable speaker, headphone, and earbud empire Beats Electronics (Beats by Dre) was born in 2006. The duo co-founded the subscription-based music service Beats Music a few years later. In 2014, tech and digital powerhouse Apple acquired Beats Electronics, Beats by Dre, and Beats Music. Iovine and Dr. Dre continued their professional relationship, wanting to transform education. Influenced by lessons learned at Beats, they saw the importance of a mixed technology and liberal arts education for the modern workforce. In 2013, the pair co-founded the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology, and the Business of Innovation at the University of Southern California following a major endowment. The Academy readies college students for the tech-driven job marketplace. Inspired by the curriculum of the Academy, Iovine and Dr. Dre co-founded IYC. IYC provides high school students with an integrated technology-, design-, and entrepreneurship-based education.
Acting credits
6.6Bruce Springsteen, a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past.
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
2025
7.1A unique cinematic experience that invites audiences on a vibrant journey through the life of cultural icon Pharrell Williams. Told through the lens of LEGO® animation, turn up the volume on your imagination and witness the evolution of one of music's most innovative minds.
Piece by Piece
2024
7.6Filmmaker Morgan Neville captures Dave Letterman on his first visit to Dublin to hang out with Bono and The Edge in their hometown, experience Dublin, and join the two U2 musicians for a concert performance unlike any they’ve done before.
Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman
2023
8.2The 37th Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony take place on Saturday, November 5, 2022 at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California. This year’s Performer Inductees are Pat Benatar, Duran Duran, Eminem, Eurythmics, Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, and Carly Simon. Judas Priest and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis will receive the Musical Excellence Award, Harry Belafonte and Elizabeth Cotten the Early Influence Award, and Allen Grubman, Jimmy Iovine, and Sylvia Robinson the Ahmet Ertegun Award.
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022
7.1A revealing, edgy, and disarmingly personal journey into the world of superfandom, told through the lens of one of the world's most iconic and enduring artists, Eminem, and the fans that worship him.
Stans
2025
7.6Notoriously press and camera-shy, David Geffen reveals himself for the first time in this unflinching portrait of a complex and compelling man. His far-reaching influence - as an agent and manager, record industry mogul, Hollywood and Broadway producer, and billionaire philanthropist - has helped shape American popular culture for the past four decades. This documentary offers a rare insight into the world of the man responsible for launching the early successes of Joni Mitchell, Tom Cruise, and Guns N’ Roses; co-founded DreamWorks; produced Cats and Dreamgirls; and is one of the largest contributors to the fight against AIDS. (SBS AU) Geffen narrates his unorthodox rise from working class Brooklyn boy to billionaire entertainment power broker in extensive interviews. American Masters explores the highs and the lows in Geffen’s professional and personal life through more than 50 new interviews with his friends, colleagues and clients, as well as other media luminaries. (PBS)
Inventing David Geffen
2012
6.7The life and successes of iconic music executive Clive Davis, from his miraculous start at Columbia Records through his trailblazing work at Arista Records and J Records, with a heavy dose of outstanding music sprinkled in between.
Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
2017
7.5A documentary on the marketing of pop culture to Teenagers.
The Merchants of Cool
2001
7.7Directed by Peter Bogdanovich and packed with rare concert footage and home movies, this documentary explores the history of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, including Petty's famous collaborations and notorious clashes with the record industry. Interviews with musical luminaries including Jackson Browne, George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Roger McGuinn, Jeff Lynne, Dave Stewart and Petty himself shed some revelatory vision.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
2007
6.8The ninety-minute film combines never-before-seen footage of Springsteen and the E Street Band shot between 1976 and 1978—including home rehearsals and studio sessions — with new interviews with Springsteen, E Street Band members, manager Jon Landau, former-manager Mike Appel, and others closely involved in the making of the record.
The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town
2010
8.3Best known for their megahit ’80s anthem "Don't You (Forget About Me)”—made famous in John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club—Simple Minds is one of the most iconic and influential Scottish bands in history. From working-class kids growing up in post-industrial Glasgow to rock stars playing Live Aid, this is the unlikely story of an extraordinary band that continues touring to this day.
Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible
2025
Television documentary spanning Tom Petty's career from 1976-1994.
Tom Petty: Going Home
1994
8.2What can be said about Born To Run that hasn't already been said or written over the years? The album took Springsteen from punk to rock star, from rags to riches, from boy to man, educating his crowd in lessons of love, broken dreams and cars. This documentary details the making of the album and covers everything from the pressure that Springsteen was working under to produce a hit album for Columbia Records to working with the band in the studio to achieve the sound he wanted for the album. Finally the "Hype" of Springsteen that threatened to overtake the value of the album and the artist is also discussed. Featuring vintage footage and new interviews, it's a marvelous glimpse into the creation of one of the top ten albums of all time. There are also three performances from 1973 recorded in Los Angeles-"Spirit in the Night" "Wild Billy's Circus Story" and "Thundercrack".
Wings for Wheels: The Making of 'Born to Run'
2005
6.3The latest addition to Eagle's critically acclaimed and highly successful Classic Albums series is Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 1979 breakthrough album Damn The Torpedoes . The band s third album defined their musical style and took them into the mainstream hitting No.2 on the US charts and spawning the top 10 single Don t Do Me Like That . The DVD features newly filmed contributions from the band members Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench, Ron Blair and Stan Lynch along with co-producer Jimmy Iovine and engineer Shelly Yakus as they analyse the tracks from the original multi-track tapes and through new and archive performances. Damn The Torpedoes has stood the test of time as one of the great American rock albums of its era and is a worthy addition to the Classic Albums series.
Classic Albums: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes
2010
NRWith a career that's seen her soar from struggling journeywoman to superstar via a fateful invitation to join Fleetwoood Mac, the singer who now bills herself as the most successful female artist in rock history looks back on the various facets of her iconography with this 16-track career retrospective and its accompanying DVD. The mystic-folkie ethos that has long been her caricature are well showcased via the cult fave Rumours outtake/B-side "Silver Spring," the muscular Sheryl Crow collaboration "Sorcerer," and a live version of the moody "Rhiannon" that casts it in even longer shadows. Yet Stevie Nicks has always displayed a willingness to push herself beyond her hippie muse, as witnessed by the dense aura of Deep Dish's remix of Mac's "Dreams" and such disparate, pop-savvy solo highlights as "I Can't Wait," "Stand Back," and shrewd, successful duets with Tom Petty ("Stop Draggin' My Heart Around") and Don Henley ("Leather and Lace").
Crystal Visions: The Very Best of Stevie Nicks
2007
Behind the camera
7.1For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's vibrant music scene, Jimmy wages an extraordinary personal struggle to find his own voice - and earn a place in a world where rhymes rule, legends are born and every moment… is another chance.
8 Mile
2002
6.8A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
2005
NROnce Upon a Time is the seventh studio album by the Scottish rock band Simple Minds, released on 21 October 1985 by record label Virgin (A&M in the US). The album has been rereleased in remastered form several times, most recently in 2015. In 2005, Virgin released the completely remixed album in DVD-Audio format. All of the tracks were remixed in 5.1 surround sound, and a downmixed 2.0 stereo version was created for compatibility with DVD-Audio setups without surround sound. The tracks on the remixed album differ in length in comparison to those on the original version, with most longer than in the original mix.
Simple Minds: Once Upon A Time
2015