04/11/2022
Bruce Springsteen will be inducting Jimmy Iovine into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Saturday night in Los Angeles, CA. An excerpt from Variety’s interview with JI;
And you basically went straight into Springsteen, which must have been in a very different experience.
“Oh, yeah, really different. I was the assistant for one day, and then the engineer left, and I went in the seat. That was my true first solo flight. He was the most exacting and uncompromising person I’ve ever met. There is nothing you have that he wants, which is such a powerful thing. He was flat broke, but he wasn’t going to compromise one thing on that record, and he most certainly wasn’t going to compromise himself.
You don’t get any more powerful than those two characters. So I was doing nothing but learning, and somehow or another, I caught feel, and the appreciation of a song and a lyric, from those guys. And then I fell into working with Patti Smith as a producer, and she was lyrically as powerful as they were.” From Variety Magazine’s Interview with Jimmy Iovine. Photo by Kevin Mazur