Geffen

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Headquarters: Los Angeles, CA

Founded: 1975

Founded by: David Geffen

Link: Official Site

Genre(s):

• Rock
• Pop
• Punk
• Indie Pop
• Emo
• Hip Hop

Contents 1 Active Roster 2 Inactive Roster 3 Key Releases 4 Biography

[edit] Active Roster

• Aerosmith
• Audioslave
• Beck
• The Bloodhound Gang
• Common
• Garbage
• Peter Gabriel
• Papa Roach
• Pat Metheny Group
• Rise Against
• Snoop Dogg
• Sonic Youth

[edit] Inactive Roster

• Counting Crows
• Guns N Roses
• GZA
• Deborah Harry
• John Lennon
• Nirvana
• Yoko Ono
• The Roots
• The Stone Roses
• Donna Summer
• Weezer
• Whitesnake
• White Zombie
• XTC
• Neil Young

[edit] Key Releases

• Neil Young - Trans
• Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
• Yoko Ono - Season Of Glass
• Nirvana - Nevermind
• Beck - Mellow Gold
• Weezer - Weezer (The Blue Album)

[edit] Biography

Founded by music mogul David Geffen in 1975, (who had earlier founded Asylum) it's become one of the major major-label imprints, and is now a part of MCA. The label has had some legal adventures in the past -- one of the most famous is when they sued recent signing Neil Young for not making representative albums -- they lost.