Alan W. Livingston
Alan W. Livingston
Alan Wendell Livingstonwas an American businessman best known for his tenures at Capitol Records, first as a writer/producer best known for creating Bozo the Clown for a series of record-album and illustrative read-along children's book sets. He was credited with signing The Beatles but that was actually George Martin of EMIIn fact, Livingston turned down the first few Beatles releases. In-between, as Vice-President in charge of Programming at NBC, in 1959 he oversaw the development and launch of the network's...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth15 October 1917
CountryUnited States of America
I don't like to leave anything unfinished. I have an absolute need to see that every phone call is returned, every letter answered.
I read somewhere once that you could be whatever you wanted. As long as I could remember, I was determined to make my way in the big world. And that meant New York.
I've always been very attentive to detail. It's a characteristic that drives some people crazy. But on the other hand, when people around me are sloppy, that drives me crazy.