No music executive has ever been so powerful as to become synonymous with the whole of the music industry itself. But if anyone came close, it was Clive Davis.

Clive Davis, the legendary music executive who died Monday at age 94, launched the careers of some of music’s highest-selling artists, including Whitney Houston and billionaire…

The record executive was instrumental in shepherding the successful careers of a number of monumental music stars, including Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Janis Joplin,…