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Clive Davis, the 80-year-old recording industry executive and producer behind acts enjoy Whitney Houston, Santana, Kelly Clarkson, and Jennifer Hudson, has come out as bisexual in his new memoir The Soundtrack of My Life. “After my second marriage failed, I met a gentleman who was also grounded in harmony. Having only had loving relationships and sexual intimacy with women, I opened myself up to the possibility that I could acquire that with a male, and establish that I could,” Davis writes in what Rolling Stonecalls “a candid five-page section toward the finish of the book.” Davis describes experimenting with his sexuality at Studio 54 in the club’s heyday, coupling with a male physician for more than two decades, and a subsequent fracture in the connection between himself and one of his children. Davis writes he is currently in a association with a dude, “but I never stopped being attracted to women. Bisexuality is misunderstood; the adage is that you’re either linear or gay or lying, but that’s not my encounter. To call me anything other than bisexual would be inaccurate.”
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"After my second marriage failed in 1985, I met a man who was also grounded in music. Having only had loving relationships and sexual love with women, I opened myself up to the possibility that I could have that with a male, and found that I could, but I never stopped creature attracted to women. Bisexuality is misunderstood; the adage is that you're either straight or queer or lying, but that's not my experience. To dial me anything other than bisexual would be inaccurate."
Among the personal revelations laid bare in the book is the admission that for the past 20 yea
Clive Davis comes out as bisexual in new memoir
Clive Davis' new memoir, "The Soundtrack of My Life," is full of inside stories from throughout his famed career. But the biggest revelation is a personal one: For the first time, the 80-year-old record executive discusses his "bisexual life."
Davis, who has been married and divorced twice, has never before publicly addressed his sexuality. In a candid five-page section toward the terminate of the book, due in stores today, he writes that he first had a sexual run-in with a man during "the era of Studio 54." "On this evening, after imbibing enough alcohol, I was open to responding to his sexual overtures," writes Davis. Creature with a man, he writes, provided "welcome relief."
After a period of "soul searching and self-analysis," Davis separated from his second wife in 1985, and says that he went on to have simultaneous relationships with two women and a man. In 1990, he entered into a "monogamous relationship" with a male doctor, who is not named in the book. Although that relationship ended in 2004, Davis says he has been in a subsequent relationship with another guy ever since. Davis writes that his coming out deeply affected his ti
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Clive Davis is a gravity of nature.
His musical enthusiasms are legendary - as is his break-neck schedule - and those so-called "golden ears."
Not only did he discover talent as wide-ranging as Janis Joplin, Santana, Whitney Houston and Alicia Keys, he has recorded everyone from Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen to Dionne Warwick and Aretha Franklin. There were the Grateful Dead and Aerosmith. Did I mention, Barry Manilow, Jennifer Hudson and Kelly Clarkson? He formed a company with L.A. Reid and Babyface, which became home base for Usher and Pink. With Sean "Puffy" Combs he founded Bad Boy Records and recorded Notorious B.I.G. The list does go on and on.
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Nearly 50 years after the one-time lawyer became the president of CBS Records, he remains a vital force in the music industry. Davis, now 80, reigns as the chief resourceful officer of Sony Music Amusement and just last week he appeared on the cover of Billboard Magazine's power issue.
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Now comes his autobiography, "The Sound Track of My Life," in which he