SLAYER Producer Rick Rubin Offered Job As Co-Chairman Of Columbia Records
February 4, 2007, 17 years ago
The following report is courtesy of NYTimes.com:
Rick Rubin (SLAYER), the star music producer who had a hand in three of the five albums up for album of the year honors at the Grammy awards on February11, has rarely found his services more in demand than right now.
Mr. Rubin, acclaimed for his work with artists as disparate as JAY-Z and JOHNNY CASH, has been offered a job as co-chairman of Columbia Records, associates said.
But whether he can take the post, which would be his first in a senior executive role, hinges largely on his effort to negotiate an exit from an existing pact with a rival label, Warner Brothers Records. Warner has Mr. Rubin’s own boutique label under contract for about three more years, said the associates, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the talks.
All the principals involved are trying to avoid a public showdown, and representatives for Warner, Columbia and Mr. Rubin declined to comment.
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