Nirvana, originally from Aberdeen, Washington, was also courted by major labels, finally signing with Geffen Records in 1990.

Geffen also distributed the first incarnation of Def American Recordings through Warner Bros. from 1988 to 1990.

In 2009, it was announced that Geffen Records had signed an agreement with the Holy See to produce an album of marian songs and prayers from Pope Benedict XVI.

Jimmy Iovine decided to relaunch the Geffen Imprint in 2011, but this time moving its headquarters from California to New York City.

In 2000, Geffen / Universal released a best-of entitled The Very Best of Asia: Heat of the Moment ( 1982 – 1990 ) which also included three rare B-sides from the early days.

In 2006, private collectors Anne and Kenneth Griffin ( founder of the Chicago-based hedge fund Citadel LLC ) bought Johns ' False Start ( 1959 ) from David Geffen for $ 80 million, making it the most expensive painting by a living artist.

In 2002, DCide entered into a partnership with Geffen Records to release the debut record from TRUSTcompany out of Montgomery, Alabama.

When Nirvana moved to Geffen Records, Sub Pop received royalties from sales of Nevermind that kept the label going for years afterwards.

In 1993, Polygram issued the two-disc set, The Donna Summer Anthology, which included 34 tracks of all of Summer's material with Casablanca and Mercury while also including songs from her tenures with Atlantic and Geffen.

American's first incarnation was distributed by Geffen Records through Warner Bros. Records from 1988 to 1990.

After a falling out with Geffen over the content of the Geto Boys ' only Def American release, Warner Bros. itself took over distribution duties from 1990 to 1997.

The group's 1990 self-titled album, The Geto Boys, caused Def American Recordings, the label to which the group was signed at the time, to switch distributors from Geffen Records to Warner Bros. Records ( with marketing for the album done by WB sister label Giant Records ) because of controversy over the lyrics.

Today Universal Music Enterprises manages MCA's rock, pop, and urban back catalogues ( including those from ABC Records and Famous Music Group ) in conjunction with Geffen-UME and Geffen have re-released various albums from MCA in the years since, as well as several compilations.

" Having a strong following by this time, they jumped from their indie label, Touch & Go to major label, Geffen Records.

Still Life ( Talking ) ( 1987 ) was the Group's first release on new label Geffen Records, and featured several popular tracks, followed by Letter from Home ( 1989 ) which also featured Aznar and Marçal.

Metheny then again delved into adventurous solo and band projects, and four years went by before the release of the next record for the next Pat Metheny Group, a live set entitled The Road to You, which featured tracks from the two Geffen studio albums amongst new tunes.

Fisher wrote and performed in her one-woman play Wishful Drinking at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles from November 7, 2006, to January 14, 2007.

Wilk's success as the drummer of Rage Against the Machine came from the failure of a different band ; he once auditioned for a band called Lock Up, who released one album ( titled Something Bitchin ' This Way Comes ) through Geffen records in 1989 and broke up when the album received little media attention upon release.

According to Forbes (" The 400 Richest Americans of 2004 ") and other sources, Geffen has pledged to give whatever money he makes from now on to charity, although he has not specified which charities or the manner of his giving.

Along with other celebrities including Steven Spielberg and Brad Pitt, Geffen donated money to stop Proposition 8 from becoming law in California.

Geffen was named one of the 2010 recipients of Ahmet Ertegun Award from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Geffen was awarded with the President's Merit Award for " indelible contributions to the music industry " from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences at the 53rd Grammy Awards in February 2011.

While the sand mean high tide is public property, residents have fought to keep the public out of the area and the beaches private and Geffen " fought an infamous battle for decades to keep the public from using an easement he was supposed to grant under terms of building his home on Carbon Beach " before losing the court battle 2005 and having to open the gates beside his home to the public.

After the collapse of Rawkus, he signed to Interscope / Geffen Records, which released his second solo album The New Danger in 2004.

The Island Def Jam Music Group, Universal Republic Records, Decca Label Group, A & M / Octone and the newly re-launched Geffen Records are all based in New York.

She coauthored the play Love, Loss, and What I Wore ( based on the book by Ilene Beckerman ) with her sister, Delia and it has played to sold out audiences in Canada, New York City, and The Geffen Playhouse in California.

Geffen was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Abraham Geffen and Batya Volovskaya, who owned a corset business.

On February 21, 2007, in an interview with Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, Geffen described Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill Clinton in unflattering terms: " Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.

Geffen is the subject of several books, most recently The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood ( 2001 ) by Thomas R. King, who initially had Geffen's cooperation, but later did not.

On November 3, 2006, the New York Times reported that Geffen had sold Pollock's 1948 painting No. 5, 1948 from his collection for $ 140 million (£ 73. 35 million ) to Mexican financier David Martinez.

In addition he won a Back Stage West Garland Award for Outstanding Performance on his role of a piano prodigy in Old Wicked Songs, staged at New York's Promenade Theater and Los Angeles ' Geffen Playhouse.

* Maxwell M Geffen ( 1896-1980 ), American editor and publisher from New York

An Entertainment " went on to productions at the Geffen Playhouse ( where it again was directed by DeLorenzo and starred Itzin ), Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT ( directed by Evan Cabnet ); Primary Stages York ( directed by Lisa Peterson ; both featuring Michael Countryman ); and in theaters all over the United States.

By 1985, independent and chain record retail stores were adding sections for New Age music and major labels began showing interest in the genre, both through acquisition of some existing New Age labels such as Paul Winter's Living Music and through signing of New Age artists such as Kitaro and jazz crossover artist Pat Metheny, both signed by Geffen.

On March 4, 2008, Geffen released Days of the New: The Definitive Collection, the first compilation of the band.

The CD and the DVD version issued simultaneously, featuring an acoustic set performed live at Skate & Surf 2003 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, would be their last releases put out solely on Drive-Thru Records, as The Starting Line was signed by Geffen Records soon afterwards.

However, the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and all UC law schools operate on the semester system.

Weiner is the Maxwell M. Geffen Professor of Medical and Scientific Journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he teaches writing about science and medicine.

David's older brother Mitchell Geffen was an attorney who attended UCLA Law School and later settled in Encino, California.

The School thereafter was named David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

* Arthur Toga, Ph. D., a professor in the University of California at Los Angeles ( UCLA ) Department of Neurology, associate dean of the Geffen School of Medicine, and Director of the UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging ; and

According to André Nel, Chief of Nanomedicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA who led the study of duel exposure, " When you add one plus one, it normally totals two … But we found that adding diesel particles to cholesterol fats equals three.