The Playboy Interview: Moguls

"About the Series: In mid-1962, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner was given a partial transcript of an interview with Miles Davis. It covered jazz, of course, but it also included Daviss ruminations on race, politics and culture. Fascinated, Hef sent the writerfuture Pulitzer Prizewinning author Alex Haley, an unknown at the timeback to glean even more opinion and insight from Davis. The resulting exchange, published in the September 1962 issue, became the first official Playboy Interview and kicked off a remarkable run of public inquisition that continues todayand that has featured just about every cultural titan of the past half century. To celebrate the interviews 50th anniversary, the editors of Playboy have assembled 13 compilations of the magazines most (in)famous interviewsfrom big mouths and wild men to sports gods and literary mavericks. Here is our collection of 12 interviews with the most lucrative executives. " **