Jimmy Iovine

Jimmy Iovine was among the most notable pop producers of the 1980s, helming hit records for artists including Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks and U2 before becoming a high-powered executive through his enormously successful Interscope Records label. Born in Brooklyn, New York on March 11, 1953, he began his career as an engineer, and by 1973 was on staff at the renowned New York studio the Record Plant, where in the years to follow he worked on classic LPs including Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run and Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell. After beginning his producing career with the obscure New Jersey band Flame, Iovine's breakthrough came via his work on the 1978 Patti Smith album Easter, which launched her Top 40 hit "Because the Night." A year later he teamed with Tom Petty for the excellent Damn The Torpedos, beginning an extended collaboration which also included the singer's 1981 effort Hard Promises and 1982's Long After Dark.



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