Editing Jive Records (section)

===1970s: Beginnings===
In 1971, South African businessmen [[Clive Calder]] and [[Ralph Simon]] began a publishing and management company. It was named [[Zomba Group of Companies|Zomba Records]] and relocated to [[London]], England, four years later; their first client was a young [[Robert "Mutt" Lange]]. Zomba originally wanted to avoid record labels to instead focus on their songwriters and producers while allowing other established labels to release the material.<ref name="knopper1">{{cite book|title=Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age|url=https://archive.org/details/appetiteforselfd00knop_0|url-access=registration|last=Knopper|first=Steve|year=2009|publisher=Free Press|location=New York|isbn=978-1-4165-5215-4|pages=[https://archive.org/details/appetiteforselfd00knop_0/page/80 80–104]}}</ref> Later that decade, the company opened offices in the US, where Calder began a business relationship with [[Clive Davis]], whose [[Arista Records]] began releasing material by Zomba artists.<ref name="knopper1" />