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Evan Bogart Talks Hit Songwriting and ‘Spinning Gold,’ the Biopic About His Dad, Casablanca Records Founder Neil Bogart

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Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor The entertainment business is filled with polymaths, but this week’s “Strictly Business” podcast guest, Evan Bogart, is a rarity even by its standards: He’s a songwriter of hits for Beyonce, Rihanna, Lizzo and others; owner of the large publishing company Seeker Music; chair of the Recording Academy’s new songwriters and composers wing; and not least, son of the late, legendary Neil Bogart, founder of the 1970s powerhouse Casablanca Records, which brought the world Kiss, Donna Summer, Parliament-Funkadelic and the Village People.

Neil is the subject of “Spinning Gold,” a biopic directed and written by Evan’s older brother Tim, for which Evan is executive music producer, and which comes out March 31.

Needless to say, art and entrepreneurship run in the Bogart family genes, even though Neil passed away in 1982 when Evan was just four years old, and he and Tim share their father’s zeal for both.

They also have more than a little of his larger-than-life personality. “I wrote a song with Donna Summer for her [final] album,” Evan recalls, “and she kept staring at me because she said she felt like she was in the room with my dad.

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