How did that association with Jimmy Iovine eventually lead to your very successful pairing at Interscope Records?
I was in New York, and I got a call from a woman who was managing a then fledgling band called Lone Justice. I went out on the road and spent pretty much the next two or three years just working with Lone Justice. We ended up managing them myself and Jimmy Iovine. Jimmy had moved from New York to L.A., and he called me up one day when the Lone Justice stuff was petering out and not happening anymore. He said, “There’s a plane ticket for you to come out to L.A. if you want to come out.” I said, “What for?” and he said, “I don’t know. Just come out. We’re having a great time. L.A. is great.” Jimmy had been hired as a consultant to refurbish A&M Studios in order make it a world-class studio again. About the winter of 1985, I actually flew out there and hung out with Jimmy and met all of these people out here. I noticed that a lot of the creative talent that was in New York in the late ’70s and in the early ’80s had migrated west. The business and money people still remained in New York, b
