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- BUSINESS, Page 61Business NotesMUSICTop Dollar For Top 40
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- In the fast-consolidating worldwide music business, the
- hottest property around was Geffen Records, the last of the big
- independent labels. Everyone wanted to buy the stable of stars
- built by hitmaker David Geffen, 47. Last week, in a sweetheart
- deal that was the talk of Hollywood, Geffen sold his company
- to MCA in a stock transaction worth an estimated $550 million,
- but got to stay on as chairman of the label, which records
- Cher, Don Henley and Guns N' Roses. The agreement makes Geffen
- MCA's biggest stockholder, with 11% of the entertainment
- conglomerate.
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- Geffen had considered a sale to Time Warner, the current
- distributor of Geffen Records, or Britain's Thorn EMI. Though
- MCA paid a premium for Geffen's Top 40 talent, the company
- gains needed clout in the booming record business -- adding
- pop-rock power to its strong roster of black and country
- artists. At least in the music business no one is talking about
- "labels for less."
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