Why do People Hate David Geffen? Homophobia? Kurt Cobain’s Death?

From Neil Young to Nirvana, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, The Eagles to Guns and Roses, Sonic Youth, and Beck, Geffen was a major force in the music industry as we know it today. Meet the Man whose Instagram post of quarantining on his Yacht started a hater backlash so fierce that he made his IG account private. What many don’t know is the story of how David Geffen overcame depression and dyslexia, a learning disability to become a music industry and Hollywood Powerbroker. In the Netflix documentary “Inventing David Geffen,“ he touches on the mental illness his mother struggled with and a burning desire not to be “ordinary,“ as he put it. David Geffen is ANYTHING but ordinary, especially to a music fan like The Radioactive Patient. Initially, he was an artist’s manager and was one of the first to make sure artists were compensated for their songwriting by forming publishing companies. (see career of Laura Nyro) By the time Geffen was thirty, he’d
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