Monday, October 24, 2011
Steve Jobs and Sun Records Studio
Posted by John Branston on Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:52 PM
The book came out Monday and was the subject of a piece on CBS "60 Minutes" Sunday. Isaacson had 40 interviews with Jobs after the Apple cofounder was diagnosed with cancer. In both the book and "60 Minutes" segment, Issacson discusses the life-saving liver transplant that Jobs received in Memphis in 2009. Some of the story, including details of the house where Jobs lived in Midtown, was previously reported in The Memphis Flyer and in an interview with Dr. James Eason, who did the liver transplant, conducted by reporter Marilyn Sadler for Memphis magazine this summer.
New details in the book:
As Eason and officials at Methodist Hospital have maintained all along, Isaacson says that Jobs did not "jump the line" to get a transplant. He did, however, register in both California and Tennessee to improve his chances. The donor was a car-accident victim in his mid-20s. As the Flyer reported, Apple attorney George Riley, a former Memphian, made the connection and helped Jobs settle into the house he bought on Morningside Place.
Jobs was cared for at Methodist by two nurses from Mississippi. They were not awed by him and Jobs liked that.
Jobs and his wife and others made a secret visit to Sun Studio, where Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash and others recorded. Jobs was so emaciated that the staff did not recognize him, but the tour guide did such a good job that Jobs offered him to hire him.
Jobs' wife took responsibility for getting him a liver transplant and monitored his position in the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease system (MELD). While the book insists that Jobs did not buy his way to the top of the list, the "60 Minutes" segment has Isaacson recounting how Jobs drove a Mercedes sports car with no license plate and "felt like the normal rules just didn't apply to him."
On the liver transplant, at least, this authorized biography may not be the last word.
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He didn't have a license plate because people kept stealing his, so he got permission from the State of California to use a bar code instead. Not because he didn't feel like he had to have one. Not that his license plate would have anything to do with buying a liver transplant anyway.
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Hiring the guy from Sun Studio was an awesome story. I know the guy and he is doing great out there : )
Perhaps, since Steve Jobs visted Sun Studios, rather than jumping the line, he simply decided to walk the line...
I have just started the book, but already have a clear sense that SJ was not a particularly decent human being. Then again, William Butler Yeats was by all accounts one of the greatest a**holes of all time, but could sure write the odd poem that was pretty terrific.
Really, of all the corrupt and obnoxious things the rich and influential get away with, jumping in line to save their own life is way down on the list. Who wouldn't, even among the 99%.
lol/jeff: poor, bad, just glad to be here. for another take on the jobs license plate:
http://autos.yahoo.com/news/latest-steve-j…
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