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Eddie Rosenblatt, Longtime Geffen Records President, Dies at 89
Eddie Rosenblatt, president of Geffen Records during its Guns N' Roses and Nirvana glory years and a veteran music executive, has died. He was 89.
Eddie Rosenblatt, who was president of Geffen Records from its inception in 1980 through its glory years of Guns N’ Roses, Nirvana, Don Henley and countless others, died Tuesday at a hospital in Santa Barbara, Variety has confirmed. It also cultivated an enormous number of executives who would become leaders themselves, including such top A&R execs and future label presidents or CEOs Gary Gersh, Tom Zutaut, John Kalodner and Wendy Goldstein. Yet it found blockbuster success in the mid-1980s with hard-rock acts like Whitesnake and Guns N’ Roses, and later, via its DGC offshoot, with alternative artists like Sonic Youth, Weezer, Hole, Beck and especially Nirvana.
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