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James "Jimmy" Iovine, (born March 11, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American music manager and co-founder, with Ted Field and Tom Whalley, of Interscope Records. He is also a record producer who has worked with bands including Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, U2 and The Pretenders. Iovine also supervised music coordination for the movie Sixteen Candles and others. He is also credited with having discovered Eminem. After watching the young rapper place 2nd in the Rap Olympics, he asked for a demo tape which he then presented to Dr. Dre.

He is married to writer and former model Vicki Iovine, author of The Girlfriend's Guide to Pregnancy.

Contents 1 Song mentions 2 Other mentions 3 Platinum Weird hoax 4 Source 5 References 6 External links

Iovine is known by artists as "much more than just another 'suit'" (The Economist, May 6th 2006) as witnessed by rappers approvingly dropping his name in songs:

• "Runnin'" - The Game - "Make yo chest move, Sylvia Rhone and Kevin Lyle slept cool, Jimmy Iovine was the best move"
• No More Fun And Games - The Game - "I mean I hook niggas up to the I.V., the same way Dre hooked me up to Iovine."
• "Gatman and Robbin" - 50 Cent f/ Eminem (Eminem's Verse) - "Just spit ya 16 and do what you gotta do to get through, Without mentionin' me or the machine of Jimmy Iovine, Or Dre or 50 or D-Twizzy, Obie and just let it be, Or we'll be [Cocked gun Sound] with a gat man..."
• "Love Me" - Obie Trice - "It's whateva, put that on the chedda man, but in the meantime, it's Jimmy Iovine time."
• "Right About Now" - Talib Kweli - "Jimmy Iovine didn't sign me, I just kinda ended up there."
• "Loose Change" [50 Cent Diss] - Ja Rule - "And Murda Inc. will send their deepest condolences and sympathies to Aftermath, To Shady, Interscope and Jimmy Iovine, Ya know ya team they really some pee-ons, getting peed on, and leaked on."
• "Failure" - Lupe Fiasco - "Please don't Interscope, its gon be a whole lotta Iovine and respiratin’ if I lean out this window with Irene."
• "Rockstar" - Bizarre - "Its been a while, im coming out, running laps around Jimmy Iovine's house"
• "Compton" - The Game - "Fans got us Interscope?, like Jimmy Iovine. Cause we RUTHLESS, like Will, before Black Eyed Peas."
• "Scream on em" - The Game - "I black out like February, back out what's necessary Oh-seven Bugatti with Jimmy Iovine's secretary"
• "Welcome to Detroit City" - Eminem & Trick Trick - "So peace to Jimmy and Dre for signing my nigga"

In the Family Guy episode "Don't Make Me Over", Jimmy Iovine signs the Griffin family band to Interscope Records. In the episode he is serving time in prison for stomping a cat to death. Jimmy Iovine JR. is a freshman at the University of Arizona and is a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity.

Main article: Platinum Weird

Jimmy Iovine conceived the controversial Platinum Weird hoax ^[1] for the promotion of the new project between David A. Stewart and Kara DioGuardi whose musical collaboration formed in 2004, but is fictionally placed in 1974. ^[2]

In July of 2006, VH1 premiered a mockumentary entitled Rock Legends – Platinum Weird, an examination of the band’s unusual story, complete with cameo appearances from such rock legends as Mick Jagger, Stevie Nicks, Annie Lennox, Elton John, and Ringo Starr, all reminiscing about the former band’s short-lived heyday and their impressions of the mysterious Erin Grace. The album was further promoted by a series of bogus World Wide Web fan sites, some of which registered by the New Media Department of Interscope Records and hosted on the same server as interscope.com ^{[3] [4] [5]}, and related false documents for the "lost" group.

Much of the Platinum Weird story line is apparently identical to an earlier promotion by the unrelated band Unicorn. ^{[6] [7]}

• May 6th 2006. "Face Value: Daddy cool", The Economist, p.68.

1. ^ Lee, Chris. "Fact or fiction? It can get a bit Weird", Los Angeles Times, 2006-06-05, p. E1. Retrieved on 2006-06-05.
2. ^ Platinum Weirdo Dave Stewart Is Having Acid Flashbacks. psychoPEDIA Daily News (2006-07-05). Retrieved on 2006-07-10.
3. ^ weirdos.info WHOIS record. Hosted on 216.193.195.52 (iscopelvw.fullerene.com), the same server as interscope.com. Retrieved on 2006-09-06
4. ^ weirdshit.biz WHOIS record. Hosted on 216.193.195.52 (iscopelvw.fullerene.com), the same server as interscope.com. Retrieved on 2006-09-06
5. ^ platinumweirdos.com WHOIS record. Hosted on 216.193.195.52 (iscopelvw.fullerene.com), the same server as interscope.com. Retrieved on 2006-09-06
6. ^ Platinum Weird - Plagarism?. Popdirt (2006-07-10). Retrieved on 2006-07-10.
7. ^ Unicorn's Cosmic Storyteller Home Page. Unicorn. Retrieved on 2006-07-10.

• Interscope Records
• Biography at www.fleetwoodmac.net