Billboard has compiled tributes from ten friends and collaborators of music executive Clive Davis, who died on 22 June aged 94, reflecting on his decades-long influence over the recording industry. Contributors include artists he signed and worked with directly, as well as fellow executives who credit him with shaping the modern music business through his instinct for hit songs and talent.

– Barry Manilow recalls how Davis pushed him to record "Brandy," which Manilow reworked and renamed "Mandy," becoming a No. 1 hit and the start of a near-50-year working relationship.
– Universal Music Group chairman Lucian Grainge remembers Davis's presence at a 1981 London club gig and a later lunch in France, praising his blend of creative instinct and commercial judgement.
– Rod Stewart recounts an afternoon with Davis and producer Richard Perry discussing tracks for the first Great American Songbook album.
– The piece also references a separate, fuller remembrance of Davis by A&R executive Pete Ganbarg.