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

The album was at best hoped to be a minor success on par with Sonic Youth's Goo, which Geffen had released a year earlier.

Geffen Records, along with A & M Records, was subsequently merged into Interscope Records.

Although Geffen would continue to exist as a brand, it was downsized to fit into the greater expansion of Interscope ( who also took over distribution of DreamWorks Records ).

At the end of 2007, however, Geffen was absorbed further into Interscope, laying off sixty employees.

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.

A new supergroup project was then suggested involving Wetton, Wakeman, drummer Carl Palmer and ( then little known ) South African guitarist / singer Trevor Rabin, but Wakeman left this project too, shortly before they were due to sign to Geffen and before they had played together.

" The Definitive Collection " was released by Geffen / Universal to tie into the tour in September and peaked at No. 183 on the U. S. album charts --— the first time Asia had made the charts since 1990.

* The translation of The Lions of Al-Rassan was nominated for the Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Geffen Award in 2005.

The band released their twelfth album The Cure on Geffen in 2004, which was produced by Ross Robinson.

TRUSTcompany ’ s sophomore record " True Parallels " was released by DCide / Geffen in March 2005.

Antin, who is openly gay, was once the boyfriend of David Geffen.

A soundtrack album was released on Geffen Records that includes the following tracks

Mos Def's final solo album for Geffen Records, True Magic, was released in 2006.

Soon afterwards, a joint venture was formed with Warner Bros. Records ( which had distributed Geffen since that label was founded in 1980 ; after 10 years under Warner, Geffen was sold to MCA Music Entertainment Group ), thereby ending Sub Pop's status as an entirely independent label.

The impasse was resolved only when Asylum Records ' David Geffen bought Fogerty's contract for $ 1, 000, 000.

Roberts kept the band focused and dealt with egos, while Geffen handled the business deals, since, in Crosby ’ s words, they needed a shark and Geffen was it.

In order to resolve this problem, Geffen engineered a deal whereby Nash was essentially traded to Atlantic for the rights to Richie Furay's band Poco ; Furay was signed to Atlantic as a result of his membership in Buffalo Springfield.

In 2005, guitarist Mike Mushok claimed during a deposition in Toledo, Ohio that Staind avoided any contact with Stainbrook because they were not made aware of promises a Geffen Records executive made to Stainbrook on their behalf during a 1999 licensing negotiation.

These include ( but are not limited to ) Amblin Entertainment, The Zanuck Company, Morgan Creek Productions Regency Enterprises ( now working with 20th Century Fox ), Village Roadshow Pictures, Icon Productions, Legendary Pictures, Heyday Films, Alcon Entertainment, Lakeshore Entertainment, Malpaso Productions, Virtual Studios, Silver Pictures ( including Dark Castle Entertainment ), The Ladd Company, Castle Rock Entertainment and The Geffen Film Company.

At this time the Stone Roses decided to capitalise on their success by signing to a major label ; then, their current record label Silvertone would not let them out of their contract, which led to a long legal battle that culminated with the band signing with Geffen Records in 1991, and then releasing their second album Second Coming in 1994.

The Stone Roses subsequently signed with Geffen Records ( garnering a million-pound advance for their next record ) and began work on their second album.

As the 1980s progressed, Geffen would go on to have success with such acts as Quarterflash, Oxo, Asia, Wang Chung, Kylie Minogue and Sammy Hagar.

This prompted Geffen to create a subsidiary label, named DGC Records in 1990, which focused on more progressive sounds ( along with some heavy metal acts ) and would later embrace the emergence of Alternative Rock and Grunge, Nirvana being an example.

Geffen stepped down as head of the label in 1995 and collaborated with Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg to form DreamWorks SKG, an ambitious multimedia empire dealing in film, television, books, and music.

Though Geffen had been substantially a pop-rock label, its absorption of MCA ( and its back catalogues ) led to a more diverse roster ; with former MCA artists such as Mary J. Blige, The Roots, Blink-182, Rise Against, and Common now featured on the label.

Meanwhile, DreamWorks Records also folded, with artists such as Nelly Furtado, Lifehouse and Rufus Wainwright being absorbed by Geffen as well.

In 2003, The Cure signed with Geffen Records.

Producer David Geffen purchased the rights for $ 500, 000, and director Neil Jordan co-wrote the script with Rice, with her receiving the sole credit.

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

After their tenure with Ronstadt, and with her encouragement, they decided to form their own band, signing with Asylum Records, the new label started by David Geffen.

He has been in conflict for many years with David Geffen for denying the public access to his beaches, in conflict with California law.

As a result of Pretty on the Insides success and the furious press coverage surrounding Love, Hole signed to Geffen Records with an eight-album contract in late 1992 after many meetings with major labels during Love's pregnancy.

It won the 2003 Geffen Award.

* Geffen Award ( Best Translated Science Fiction Book, 2001 )

*** On 2006-10-12 won the Geffen Award as the Best Translated SF Novel in Israel for 2006

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

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.

A Storm of Swords won the 2001 Locus Award, the 2002 Geffen Award for Best Novel and was nominated for the 2001 Nebula Award for Best Novel.

* Geffen Award – Best Fantasy Book ( Won ) – ( 2002 )

* Geffen Award ( Translated Fantasy Books ) nominee, 2005

He was nominated three times for Grammy Award during his tenure at Geffen Records.