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Clive Davis, music industry starmaker, has died at 94

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FILE - Clive Davis, chief creative officer of Sony Music, appears during press day in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Jan. 23, 2014, prior to Davis' annual pre-Grammy gala. (Photo by Casey Curry/Invision/AP, File
FILE - Clive Davis, left, appears with Aretha Franklin at Aretha's 69th birthday party, in New York, Friday, March 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)
FILE - Record mogul Clive Davis is pictured in his New York office, Sept. 10, 1980. (AP Photo/Marty Reichenthal, File)
FILE - Clive Davis, left, and Usher appear at Davis' 2005 pre Grammy party in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Feb. 12, 2005. (AP Photo/Chris Polk, File)
FILE - Record mogul Clive Davis is pictured in his New York office, Sept. 10, 1980. (AP Photo/Marty Reichenthal, File)
FILE - Sony Music Entertainment's Chief Creative Officer and famous hitmaker Clive Davis posing for a portrait in his office in New York on Feb. 18, 2013. (Photo by Dan Hallman/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - Music producer Clive Davis, left, appears with singer Whitney Houston at the pre-Grammy gala in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, file)
FILE - Clive Davis kisses the hand of Diana Ross at his annual pre- grammy party at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Saturday Feb. 12, 2005. (AP Photo/Chris Polk)
FILE - Carlos Santana, left, and producer Clive Davis pose with their Grammys at the 42nd Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, on Feb. 23, 2000. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
FILE - Music producer Berry Gordy, right, appears with Clive Davis during Davis' Pre-Grammy Party in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 10, 2007. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok, File)
FILE - Music producer Clive Davis attends the special screening of "Western Stars" at Metrograph in New York on Oct. 16, 2019. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - Bobby Brown, left, and Whitney Houston appear with music producer Clive Davis, right, at a pre-Grammy party in New York on Feb. 24, 1998. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson, File)

FILE - Clive Davis, chief creative officer of Sony Music, appears during press day in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Jan. 23, 2014, prior to Davis' annual pre-Grammy gala. (Photo by Casey Curry/Invision/AP, File