Stevie is @ the Grammy's

[MikeInNV]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

I got curious about Doug Morris and did a quick Google search.

Found this interesting article that talks to and about Stevie a little bit. How he nurtured her through the making of Bella Donna, Jimmy Iovine, and how to get the album from #3 to #1 on Billboard he pimped her out one night. Ok, I exaggerate that part, but it does say the album was #3 and he took her to dinner with a writer from Billboard and then, whaddayaknow, her album went to #1. The author of *this* article clearly implies that Morris knew that would do the trick.

In 1980, Morris was named president of Atlantic. He applied his new skills to stars like Nicks, whom he signed as a solo artist. He called her every day as she was recording Bella Donna, her first record. When things didn’t go well with her producer, Morris recruited 26-year-old Jimmy Iovine, who’d worked on records with Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty. Nicks was ecstatic when Bella Donna reached No. 3 on the Billboard charts. “In numerology, three is the number of the creative, of the beginning, the child,” she says. It wasn’t enough for Morris, though. He took Nicks, possibly the most alluring woman in rock ’n’ roll at the time, out to dinner with a writer from Billboard. One week later, her album went to No. 1.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles...reaming-big#p1

I've heard this story before, but I wonder how many people actually believe it. Billboard magazine is the top trade publication in the industry, and its credibility is critical for the business. It's been reporting on radio and music since the 1920s (after being founded in the 1890s ), and if this sort of thing really went on, well....I would expect there would be other stories besides Stevie's 1981 album. Has anyone else heard any?