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_He and Tenot organised some tours, including all expert jazz musicians, in Europe and France. He also became a record producer, and founded the Mood Records. In 1970, he founded Warner (France).

During the 60s, he created a series of rock and roll radio show designed after ‘Dick Clark’s American Bandstand’, and named it ‘Salut Les Copains’. The show became successful that he launched a magazine with the same name. After that, he also launched several other magazines, and bought many others.

His inclination to Surrealism made him publish books about many artists. Many of these artists joined dinner celebrations at his apartment in Paris. He collected many works by different Surrealists, and possessed the world’s biggest private of collection of Joseph Cornell’s boxes.

In the year 1981, he bought Hachette magazines, with the help of his friend Jean-Luc Lagardere, including the French TV Guide, and the Elle magazine. Then, Elle was launched in the US. After that, Lagardere and Filipacchi expanded Hachette Filipacchi Magazines the US by purchasing Diamandis Communications Inc. (previously CBS magazines), including Car and Driver, Woman’s Day, Road and Track, Flying, Boating, and several others.

Daniel Filipacchi has three children, namely Craig, Mimi, and Amanda Filipacchi – the American novelist.



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