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New Take on an Old Tune:
Harkening to a time when musicians ran record companies, Ron Fair, the new chairman of Geffen Records is a self-taught artist. By “artist,” the exec means he “tried his hand as a wedding singer, jingle writer and pianist before eventually rising to prominence as the executive behind such acts as Christina Aguilera, the Black Eyed Peas and the Pussycat Dolls.”