. ♪ don't you know we're riding on the marrakesh express ♪ ♪ don't you know we're riding on the marrakesh your masters, took your publishing. uh, and we thought, this is an opportunity to represent people, and do it a totally different way, a totally unique way. geffen: we decided that we didn't want to have contracts with any of these artists that we managed, because we were better than anybody else, we thought, and if they didn't want to be with us, who wanted them? and we never lost a client, i might add. i remember the very first concert that joni mitchell and crosby, stills, nash and young did at the greek theater. i flew my mother out from brooklyn. and in those days they would give you a program, and it said, "david geffen and elliot roberts present crosby, stills, nash and young, and joni mitchell." and my mother said to me, "what is it that you do for these people?" and i said, "i'm their manager." and she said, "i don't understand." i said "i advise them on their careers." and she looked at me and she said, "you?" david was such an advocate, you know, for the people that he mana