Rick Rubin - The Music Man

nytimes.com — Beginning in 1984, when he started Def Jam Recordings, until his more recent occupation as a career-transforming, chart-topping, Grammy Award-winning producer, Rubin has never gone to an office of any kind. That wasn't a problem: Columbia didn't want Rubin to punch a clock. It wanted him to save the company. And just maybe the record business. Sep 1, 2007 View in Crawl 4