“In a world that so often reduces art to commerce and genius to product, you held the line”: Alicia Keys, Dionne Warwick, Springsteen and Manilow pay tribute to Clive Davis at his funeral

Alicia Keys and Clive Davis during 2004 Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Party - Inside Arrivals at Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, United States. (Photo by KMazur/WireImage).

An array of bona fide A-listers was out in force at the funeral of Clive Davis in New York on Monday morning, paying heartfelt eulogies to the record company man who mentored so many huge-selling artists.

Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Hudson, Dionne Warwick, Alicia Keys and Barry Manilow were all there at the Central Synagogue in Manhattan’s Midtown. Kenny G opened the service with a clarinet piece, and was followed by Hudson, who sang Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah and I Will Always Love You, a song made famous by Davis’s one time protege Whitney Houston.