The soundtrack of my life

Welcome to the party

Straight out of Brooklyn

Recovering from shattering losses

A Harvard man

A new life back in New York

The offer that changed my life

Running Columbia Records

Making A&R moves

Monterey pop

Columbia gets hot

Pearl

Simon and Garfunkel

Dylan

What kind of career do I want?

From Santana to Springsteen

Talent raids and finding the company's soul

The end of one fantasy

Searching for a new beginning

Arista means excellence

Manilow mania

Building a new label

Patti Smith and Lou Reed

Ready to rock

The Grateful Dead

Gil Scott-Heron and Ghostbusters

Broadway, soundtracks and comedy

Dionne Warwick

The Queen of Soul

New wave, heavy metal, and Eurythmics

Whitney

Beyond the house that Barry built

Arista pop explodes, into Milli Vanilli

Arista Nashville and new country music

LaFace rules!

Bad boy

Sarah McLachlan, Ace of Base, and the freewheeling nineties

Supernatural Santana

Instant major

Alicia

The J Records years

Rod Stewart and the great American songbook

Rock at the dawn of the twenty-first century

American Idol and Kelly Clarkson

More on the Idol franchise

Accepting change and moving forward.