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Jeffrey Blue (born November 21, 1967) is a A&R executive, record-producer, and songwriter who is currently an A&R consultant for Atlantic Records. He has worked as the Senior Vice President of A&R and staff producer for Warner Bros. Records, Interscope Records, Virgin Records, Capitol Records, Sony BMG, Jive Records, RCA Records, and J Records. He specializes in discovering, developing, and signing unsigned artists. Blue most notably discovered Linkin Park, Macy Gray, Daniel Powter, and The Last Goodnight. In addition to signing Limp Bizkit and Korn to publishing deals, he has also written singles for artists such as Hoobastank, Syndicate, and The Last Goodnight. Biography Blue attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he studied Communications focusing on Media Law. Blue played drums while in college. He interned for the local CBS TV News Department. Blue then attended Loyola Law School in Los Angeles to pursue a career as an attorney. Blue passed the bar exam and found work as a lawyer, but lost passion for the profession. Blue became a music journalist for Billboard, HITS, and Entertainment Weekly, and eventually published his own magazine, Crossroads, which focused on discovering unsigned artists. He also pursued a career in acting and appeared in television commercials. Blue joined Zomba Music Publishing in 1995 and became the label's vice president of A&R while also teaching classes at UCLA. He met Brad Delson at UCLA, then a student, who became his intern. Blue mentored Delson and took interest in his band, Linkin Park, which he had just cofounded with Mike Shinoda. Blue played a pivotal role in Linkin Park's early history. He helped the band find vocalist Chester Bennington. After Blue left Zomba and joined Warner Records, he signed Linkin Park to their first record deal. Blue also developed and co-wrote with Macy Gray. After recording Gray's demos, Blue secured a deal for the artist with Epic Records and led to him co-writing the top-10 hit "Still" for Gray. During this time Blue also signed rock bands Korn and Limp Bizkit to publishing deals. Beyond A&R, He has directly collaborated with artists to write and produce music. Blue wrote Hoobastank's "So Close, So Far", while also producing Better Than Ezra's album Before the Robots. He was also the executive producer for Queen of the Damned's soundtrack. In 2007, Blue collaborated with The Last Goodnight to co-write the song Pictures of You, which won a BMI Pop Award. He also performed all the drums and percussion on the band's debut album, Poison Kiss. In 2008 he developed, co-wrote, and co-produced the debut album for Steadlür. In 2012 Blue signed, co-wrote, and developed WERM after discovering the band on Music Xray. In 2020, Blue released, One Step Closer, From Xero to #1; Becoming Linkin Park, a book detailing his early work with Linkin Park. He also worked on a docu-series covering history of A&R. References External links Jeff Blue Music Official Website Jeff Blue @ IMDB.com . Discover the Jeff Blue popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jeff Blue books.
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Jeff Buckley
Anthony ReynoldsMystery White Boy Blues is a haunting exploration of the life, death and legacy of a truly unique artist. Jeff Buckley emerged from a bland suburban background to become the most e...
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Vineyard Blues
Philip R. CraigA surprise visit from a dear old friend only adds to the joys of good weather, great fishing, warm breezes, and loving family for J.W. Jackson this idyllic island summer. The exBos...
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The Mozart of Basketball
Todd Spehr & Digger PhelpsDražen Petrovic was born on October 22, 1964, in Šibenik, Croatia. Learning basketball at an early age from his older brother, Aleksandar, Dražen was a natural. He began his profes...
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The Space Barons
Christian DavenportThe historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes, egos, and visions of space as the next entrepreneurial fro...
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The Devil Himself
Peter FarrisFor Fans of Brian Panowich and Ron Rash. Southern Noir at its finest, The Devil Himself, sizzles with pageburning suspense and bewitching characters. Deep in the forest o...
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The Best Team Money Can Buy
Molly KnightWith a new Afterword covering the 2015 season.The bestselling, insidetheclubhouse story of two tumultuous years when the Los Angeles Dodgers were remade from top to bottom, becomin...
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The Daily Don
Jesse DuquetteThe Best of “The Daily Don,” political cartoon that documents all the covfefe of the administration of Donald Trump.The Daily Don is the best of artist Jesse Duquette’s fabulous In...
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Out There
Michael Wall & Karl TateIn the vein of Randall Munroe's What If? meets Brian Green's Elegant Universe, a senior writer from Space.com leads readers on a wild ride of exploration into the final frontier, i...
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Amazon unaufhaltsam
Brad StoneDie einzigartige Geschichte von Jeff BezosAmazon hat es geschafft, von Seattle aus jeden Haushalt der Welt zu erreichen. Zunächst mit einem unschlagbaren OnlineShoppingAngebot, dan...
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Bezonomics
Brian DumaineAn “illuminating, lucid, and finely detailed” (The Washington Post) look at Amazon’s worlddominating business model, the current competitors either imitating or trying to outfox Am...
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Carl Perkins
Jeff ApterThe definitive and fascinating biography of the musical trailblazer who wrote the classic “Blue Suede Shoes” and was the influence behind countless other legendary hits, a rock and...
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Tales from the Toronto Blue Jays Dugout
Jim PrimeFrom the club’s inception in the late ’70s to winning the division for the first time in the ’80s, Joe Carter’s epic home run, the two World Series titles in the early ’90s, the re...
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The Last Word
Hanif Kureishi“Hanif Kureishi’s best novel since The Buddha of Suburbia” (The Independent, UK): a mischievous, wickedly funny, and intellectually deft story about a young biographer and the famo...
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Amazon Unbound
Brad StoneThis New York Times bestseller is a “masterful” (The Washington Post), “juicy tour of the company [Jeff] Bezos built” (The New York Times Book Review), revealing the most important...
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Tales from the Toronto Blue Jays Dugout
Jim PrimeFrom the club’s inception in the late ’70s; to winning the division for the first time in the ’80s; Joe Carter’s epic home run; the two World Series titles in the early ’90s; the r...
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Another Kind of Eden
James Lee BurkeNew York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s. The American West in the ...