4 Industry Legends on the 'Billboard Moments' That Changed Their Careers

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For our 125th anniversary, we asked 4 music industry veterans to reminisce on their professional highlights & the artists who made them special

in March 1968]. The song is a pure, artistic masterpiece filled with emotion. In the spirit world, Otis still has to be smiling.” --Making The Wall with Pink Floyd was an intense emotional experience. The entire band was at the top of its game -- playing, writing and performing better than ever before. When I first heard “” [the act’s sole Billboard Hot 100 No. 1], it only had one verse and one chorus. I told them it was a hit. They said, “We don’t do bloody singles. Go fuck yourself.

--I didn’t hear Carly Simon's "You’re So Vain" [which topped the Hot 100 in January 1973] until I received the first round of songs [she] recorded in London that Richard Perry produced. I always trusted Carly. When she thought she had an album, we would talk abstractly about it, but I did not want to hear raw songs with piano before she took off for a session. I needed to hear the completed song before I made any comments. My comment after hearing “You’re So Vain” was “" No.

 

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