In the early 1970s, David Geffen had founded Asylum Records, best known for recording the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt. He stepped down from Asylum to become vice president of Warner Bros. Pictures in 1975. Warner Bros. abruptly kicked him out of the studio in 1978, but his five-year contract with the studio prevented him from finding outside work. In 1980, he resumed his work, signing a deal with Warner Bros. Records (which became one of the majors during the 1970s) to form Geffen Records. Warner

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Boardwalk Records was an independent label formed by Neil Bogart after his unceremonious firing from the highly successful, yet financially troubled Casablanca Records, which he co-founded and had run for a considerably long time. Casablanca was one of the disco powerhouses of the late 1970s, but by 1980, the phrase "disco sucks" had become so widespread that Mr. Bogart decided to use the new Boardwalk label as a vehicle for new wave music. The most consistent hitmaker on the label was a rock

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The first album releases from Chrysalis were released on Island. They used Island's ILPS 9000 series.

The first three albums used the 1967 Island label design, which had an orange and black "eyeball" logo to the left and (occasionally) the Chrysalis logo to the right.

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WASHINGTON (AP)—A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to immediately return the White House press credentials of CNN reporter Jim Acosta, saying Acosta suffered “irreparable harm” from the decision to bar him.

U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly, an appointee of President Donald Trump, announced his decision following a hearing. The judge said Acosta’s credentials would be returned immediately and reactivated to allow him access to the White House.

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NASHVILLE (AP)—Country star Roy Clark, the guitar virtuoso and singer who headlined the cornpone TV show “Hee Haw” for nearly a quarter century and was known for such hits as “Yesterday When I was Young” and “Honeymoon Feeling,” has died. He was 85.

Publicist Jeremy Westby said Clark died Thursday due to complications from pneumonia at home in Tulsa, Okla.

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(New York Daily News)—Marvel mogul Stan Lee, the comic book genius whose frailty-fraught superheroes elevated a children’s genre to a pop culture phenomenon minting billions for Hollywood, died Monday in Los Angeles.

He was 95.

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WASHINGTON (AP/NPR)—Republicans and Democrats will split control of Congress next year. House Democrats are projected to pick up enough GOP-held seats to take the majority in the House, according to the Associated Press. Senate Republicans are projected to maintain and perhaps expand their majority.

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