
Jimmy Iovine
Production · b. 1953 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
Jimmy Iovine is a trailblazer in music, business, and education. He is the co-founder of Beats Electronics (Beats by Dre) and Beats Music, alongside hip-hop producer and virtuoso Andre “Dr. Dre” Young. He is also the co-founder of Interscope Records, the USC Iovine and Young Academy and the Iovine and Young Center (IYC). In 2022, Iovine was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the Ahmet Ertegun Award. Hailing from the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, Iovine started his career at the famed Record Plant recording studio in his late teens, where vocalists and musicians like John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen were able to bring their musical visions to life. He first worked as a recording engineer — eventually branching out to produce songs for the former Beatles member and “The Boss.” He also worked with Patti Smith, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Dire Straits, Stevie Nicks, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, U2, and The Pretenders. In 1990, Iovine co-founded the record label Interscope Records. Under Iovine, Interscope Records worked to empower artists, ensuring their needs and ideas came first. He turned artists into major hitmakers — with Dr. Dre, Nine Inch Nails, Mary J. Blige, No Doubt, Eminem, the Black Eyed Peas, Kendrick Lamar, Gwen Stefani, and Lady Gaga among the artists Interscope Records signed. Meeting Dr. Dre at Interscope Records led to an ongoing business relationship between the music pioneers. The fashionable speaker, headphone, and earbud empire Beats Electronics (Beats by Dre) was born in 2006. The duo co-founded the subscription-based music service Beats Music a few years later. In 2014, tech and digital powerhouse Apple acquired Beats Electronics, Beats by Dre, and Beats Music. Iovine and Dr. Dre continued their professional relationship, wanting to transform education. Influenced by lessons learned at Beats, they saw the importance of a mixed technology and liberal arts education for the modern workforce. In 2013, the pair co-founded the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology, and the Business of Innovation at the University of Southern California following a major endowment. The Academy readies college students for the tech-driven job marketplace. Inspired by the curriculum of the Academy, Iovine and Dr. Dre co-founded IYC. IYC provides high school students with an integrated technology-, design-, and entrepreneurship-based education.
Movies14
Movie7.2AnimationMusicA unique cinematic experience that invites audiences on a vibrant journey through the life of cultural icon Pharrell Williams. Told through the lens of LEGO® animation, turn up the volume on your imagination and witness the evolution of one of music's most innovative minds.
Piece by Piece
2024 · 166 votes
Movie6.6DramaMusicBruce Springsteen, a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past.
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
2025 · 353 votes
Movie7.6DocumentaryMusicFilmmaker Morgan Neville captures Dave Letterman on his first visit to Dublin to hang out with Bono and The Edge in their hometown, experience Dublin, and join the two U2 musicians for a concert performance unlike any they’ve done before.
Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman
2023 · 19 votes
Movie8.2MusicDocumentaryThe 37th Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony take place on Saturday, November 5, 2022 at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California. This year’s Performer Inductees are Pat Benatar, Duran Duran, Eminem, Eurythmics, Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, and Carly Simon. Judas Priest and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis will receive the Musical Excellence Award, Harry Belafonte and Elizabeth Cotten the Early Influence Award, and Allen Grubman, Jimmy Iovine, and Sylvia Robinson the Ahmet Ertegun Award.
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022 · 11 votes
Movie6.7DocumentaryMusicThe life and successes of iconic music executive Clive Davis, from his miraculous start at Columbia Records through his trailblazing work at Arista Records and J Records, with a heavy dose of outstanding music sprinkled in between.
Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
2017 · 23 votes
Movie7.1DocumentaryMusicA revealing, edgy, and disarmingly personal journey into the world of superfandom, told through the lens of one of the world's most iconic and enduring artists, Eminem, and the fans that worship him.
Stans
2025 · 64 votes
Movie8.3MusicDocumentaryBest known for their megahit ’80s anthem "Don't You (Forget About Me)”—made famous in John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club—Simple Minds is one of the most iconic and influential Scottish bands in history. From working-class kids growing up in post-industrial Glasgow to rock stars playing Live Aid, this is the unlikely story of an extraordinary band that continues touring to this day.
Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible
2025 · 3 votes
Movie7.6DocumentaryNotoriously press and camera-shy, David Geffen reveals himself for the first time in this unflinching portrait of a complex and compelling man. His far-reaching influence - as an agent and manager, record industry mogul, Hollywood and Broadway producer, and billionaire philanthropist - has helped shape American popular culture for the past four decades. This documentary offers a rare insight into the world of the man responsible for launching the early successes of Joni Mitchell, Tom Cruise, and Guns N’ Roses; co-founded DreamWorks; produced Cats and Dreamgirls; and is one of the largest contributors to the fight against AIDS. (SBS AU) Geffen narrates his unorthodox rise from working class Brooklyn boy to billionaire entertainment power broker in extensive interviews. American Masters explores the highs and the lows in Geffen’s professional and personal life through more than 50 new interviews with his friends, colleagues and clients, as well as other media luminaries. (PBS)
Inventing David Geffen
2012 · 7 votes
Movie7.5DocumentaryHistoryA documentary on the marketing of pop culture to Teenagers.
The Merchants of Cool
2001 · 10 votes
Movie6.8MusicDocumentaryThe ninety-minute film combines never-before-seen footage of Springsteen and the E Street Band shot between 1976 and 1978—including home rehearsals and studio sessions — with new interviews with Springsteen, E Street Band members, manager Jon Landau, former-manager Mike Appel, and others closely involved in the making of the record.
The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town
2010 · 10 votes
- Movie9.0DocumentaryMusic
Television documentary spanning Tom Petty's career from 1976-1994.
Tom Petty: Going Home
1994 · 1 votes
Movie7.7DocumentaryMusicDirected by Peter Bogdanovich and packed with rare concert footage and home movies, this documentary explores the history of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, including Petty's famous collaborations and notorious clashes with the record industry. Interviews with musical luminaries including Jackson Browne, George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Roger McGuinn, Jeff Lynne, Dave Stewart and Petty himself shed some revelatory vision.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
2007 · 30 votes
Movie6.3DocumentaryMusicThe latest addition to Eagle's critically acclaimed and highly successful Classic Albums series is Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 1979 breakthrough album Damn The Torpedoes . The band s third album defined their musical style and took them into the mainstream hitting No.2 on the US charts and spawning the top 10 single Don t Do Me Like That . The DVD features newly filmed contributions from the band members Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench, Ron Blair and Stan Lynch along with co-producer Jimmy Iovine and engineer Shelly Yakus as they analyse the tracks from the original multi-track tapes and through new and archive performances. Damn The Torpedoes has stood the test of time as one of the great American rock albums of its era and is a worthy addition to the Classic Albums series.
Movie8.2MusicDocumentaryWhat can be said about Born To Run that hasn't already been said or written over the years? The album took Springsteen from punk to rock star, from rags to riches, from boy to man, educating his crowd in lessons of love, broken dreams and cars. This documentary details the making of the album and covers everything from the pressure that Springsteen was working under to produce a hit album for Columbia Records to working with the band in the studio to achieve the sound he wanted for the album. Finally the "Hype" of Springsteen that threatened to overtake the value of the album and the artist is also discussed. Featuring vintage footage and new interviews, it's a marvelous glimpse into the creation of one of the top ten albums of all time. There are also three performances from 1973 recorded in Los Angeles-"Spirit in the Night" "Wild Billy's Circus Story" and "Thundercrack".
Wings for Wheels: The Making of 'Born to Run'
2005 · 4 votes
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TV7.3DocumentaryAn intimate look into the personal lives of pop music's greatest and most influential artists.
Behind the Music
1997 · 18 votes
TV7.7DocumentaryA documentary series about pop and rock albums that are considered the best or most distinctive of a well-known band or musician or that exemplify a stage in the history of music.
Classic Albums
1997 · 8 votes
TV5.3Talk ShowA one-of-a-kind barbershop experience with unfiltered conversation and debate from the biggest names in sports and entertainment.
The Shop
2018 · 12 votes
TV7.8DocumentaryA four-part documentary series that tells the stories of Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre -- one the son of a Brooklyn longshoreman, the other straight out of Compton - -- and their improbable partnership and surprising leading roles in a series of transformative events in contemporary culture.
The Defiant Ones
2017 · 107 votes
TV7.8DocumentaryExplore the art of music recording with a behind-the-scenes look at the birth of brand new sounds. Featuring more than 160 original interviews with some of the most celebrated recording artists of all time, Soundbreaking explores the nexus of cutting-edge technology and human artistry that has created the soundtrack of our lives.
Soundbreaking
2016 · 16 votes