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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 finish of the book, due in stores today, he writes that he first had a sexual experience with a man during "the era of Studio 54." "On this overnight, after imbibing enough alcohol, I was open to responding to his sexual overtures," writes Davis. Organism 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 bloke ever since. Davis writes that his coming out deeply affected his ti
"After my second marriage failed in 1985, I met a gentleman who was also grounded in music. Having only had loving relationships and sexual intimacy 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 being attracted to women. Bisexuality is misunderstood; the adage is that you're either straight or lgbtq+ or lying, but that's not my experience. To call 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
Music Mogul Clive Davis Comes Out As Bisexual
Clive Davis — the 80-year-old document producer and music exec responsible for the careers of Whitney Houston, Christina Aguilera, Alicia Keys, Rod Stewart, Kelly Clarkson and Jennifer Hudson, among others — has come out of the closet as a bisexual in his new memoir "The Soundtrack of My Life."
Despite existence married twice and having four children, the current chief creative officer at Sony Music reveals he has had two serious relationships with men over the past 20 years.
Davis writes that his first same-sex sexual run-in came at Studio 24.
“Was I nervous?” writes Davis in "Soundtrack." “Absolutely. Did the heavens open up? No. But it was satisfying.”
Davis also reveals that he has been in “a strong monogamous relationship” with a man for the last seven years but makes it obvious he considers himself as strictly bisexual, not homosexual.
“Do I feel I could have been similarly attracted to a woman?” Davis writes. “The acknowledge is yes.”
"I’m not lying,” recent
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Clive Davis is a force 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 Deceased and Aerosmith. Did I mention, Barry Manilow, Jennifer Hudson and Kelly Clarkson? He formed a firm with L.A. Reid and Babyface, which became residence base for Usher and Pink. With Sean "Puffy" Combs he founded Horrible 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 creative 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
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