And then, I'm sure it was not planned, one of the slave owners was a Welshman. Musicians who have played for, and know, say, Clinton or Obama may be ten a penny these days, but how many others can also say, for instance, that they playedat the age of 19 as a trumpet player with Lionel Hamptons big band (his first regular professional job)at Dwight Eisenhowers inaugural in 1953? But, say, Taylor Swift, I guess, is the biggest pop star on the planet in terms of sales right now and this week is about to sell over a million copies of her new album. And he heard me.". "I got 22 girlfriends.". He died in her arms pretty much" But he was about to get married to Quincy Jones' daughter. The record producer once spoke candidly about his love life during an interview. So he's just hanging there till he digests it. You know, I came up with the two wildest motherfuckers on the planet. Theyve Had an Inappropriate Relationship For Months, How Black Creators Can Expand Their Network with LinkedIn, Quincy Jones is an iconic music executive who has worked with the biggest stars, from, Quincy was married three times throughout his life, Quincy is now single, but has multiple girlfriends who live all around the world. 23. 2. We're doing ten movies, six albums, four Broadway shows, two networks, business with the president of China, intellectual property. I really don't. Just like you do chicken, man. And she didn't call me by my name until I was 57. 16. "Yeah! Because it's not going anywhere right now. How old would you have been when you first saw a dead body? Michael knows shit. In fact the Jacksons are coming to us now, even after the court thing we had. You know what I mean? We had to go and kiss his hand before we left. I cook gumbo that'll make you slap your grandmother. He had a red fedora on, had just smoked a joint. "I think it had a lot to do with it. "To try to sell me on them," he says. He said, 'I'm sorry I said it.' While they were still married, Jones had a daughter, Kidada with Peggy Lipton. To revisit this article, visit My Profile, thenView saved stories. I needed him to beg, and I went through the whole nine yards. That's tough, man. I've never turned my antennae off. And you look all across the walls, his bones with his writing on them. So I stay in his castle.". Quincy Jones married Jeri Caldwell in 1957. "What the fuck is that?" Michael and Stevie [too]. (Jones helped connect them.) Methedrine. Three or four estates they want us to take over. "Yeah, I don't lie. Here's what you've got to understand: The interracial thing was part of a revolution, too, because back in the '40s and stuff, they would say, 'You can't mess with a white man's money. Don't mess with his women.' Did you understand why he was such a big deal? There is not much known about their relationship due to it being more than 50 years ago, but Quincy did once reveal how they got together in high school during an interview with Oprah Winfrey. ", "Did it hurt? Kidada Jones was raised in Bel Air, where her home was often frequented by celebrities like Michael Jackson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. One day, as he blew, he felt a new pain in his head, and he was subsequently told that the clip had nearly come loose. She is also a painter. "He knew. Plenty of people talk as though Taylor Swift has great songs. "He had a perspective on details that was unmatched. . If that was my daughter, I'd be kind of angry. We'll be talking, and suddenly he mentions that on the other side of the room there are cards from Picasso's wife, Jacqueline. "Oh, that I only like blondes. He laughs. At that, Marlon turned around and freaked out. That's the way it was back then. When she said that, it opened up a door for me. He waited in the limousine to try and run over him and La Toya and his mother.". There's something in the water, man.". "You know, because it's somebody you admire, and you see that they got this little old ragged-ass convention of racism going. My daughter Kidada calls me LL QJLoose Lips"), but it doesn't really seem to stem the flow. The first record I did with Dinah WashingtonI was 20 years old or somethingwas 'I Love My Trombone-Playing Daddy with His Big Long Slidin' Thing.' He nods. "He had on some burgundy wingtips, man, with thin tan rib socks, man. When Jones had a breakdown in the mid-1980s, Brando sent him to his private island in Tahiti to recalibrate and recover. It was no problems after that. "Well, at that age it's not so easily identifiable exactly what the hell's wrong. When you're 7 you can't tell the difference. (3), 4. Jones first met Miles Davis when Jones was 18, and they later collaborated. You gotta enjoy life. Smelly was the name Jones used for Michael Jackson; he took it from Jacksons habit of saying smelly jelly instead of funky., "Well, we sat at a table that held 24 people, at his house, family table, I said, 'MichaelSmelly, (20) you sit over there so he doesn't feel like we're ganging up on him.' What do you think Michael's greatness was? ", "Oh, they grabbed me, and they took a switchblade knife and nailed my hand to the fence right there." Buzzes if they're too old. Everywhere. They had two children, Rashida and Kidada. I didn't listen to all the advice." "No, I wouldn't talk. (30). But Jones didn't go. And you get halfway up, and your wife's sitting there, 5:30 in the morning, with her hands on her hips, giving you a cold hard stare. . Thank you all for the love & support youve shown me & my family.. Sadly, their marriage was over within years and was finalized in 1974 so Quincy could go on to marry his third wife, Peggy Lipton. "Yeah, he showed up in the back of a car with a brother who was managing him, and he was like a deer in the headlights. Quincy Jones has a history of dropping hits having produced Michael Jackson 's "Billie Jean," "Beat It," "Thriller" and countless other iconic songs. My poor baby.". BrazilBelo Horizonte, So Paulo, and Rio. "That's when he first met Kidada. He tells me about all the celebrations planned for his 85th year: a Netflix documentary, a prospective ten-part TV biopic he hopes will star Donald Glover, a star-studded TV event on CBS that he tells me Oprah will host. That's because they said cocaine would take you from your woman. When he was still using, would you talk to him about it? "We used to go to Fort Lewis and Fort Lawton in the summertime," he says, "and you'd smell the racism. Eleven-inch dong. ", "Yeah! ", "Yeah. We were two CIA guys. "Will do," says Michael, clearly joking. (18) Jermaine was here last week with his 21-year-old son, and I want to do a Broadway show with him on Michael. I got a tape on that." He died a playboys death in 1965 at the age of 56: After an all-nighter at a Paris nightclub in celebration of a polo victory, he drove his silver Ferrari into a horse chestnut tree. My daughter Kidada calls me LL QJLoose Lips"), but it doesn't really seem to stem the flow. Fucking right it did! What would you and Marlon do when you got together? You did get some criticism for having white wives, didn't you? They were very in love. Every week we'd have two or three dinners with Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin and all those cats. I've been a fan of hers since Triumph of the Will. Jones didnt actually marry Kinski, mother of his youngest child. He came in on Monday morning, said, 'Hey, Q, how do you like your eggs?' Because it was frightening, and every day you never knew what was happening. Oprah and I kid all the timewe call each other 'two motherless motherfuckers from Miss'ippi.'". Thriller was the second of the three Michael Jackson albums Jones produced, after Off the Wall and before Bad. That's fucked-up for 14. I don't get into that kind of judgment. Martina's Father Married His Third Wife Immediately After Divorcing Her Mom. "I'm not." Even Leni Riefenstahl. He don't need no dance lessons.' After I get an Oscar nomination and he sees the film, he calls up: 'Oh, Quincy, I'm so sorry' and on and dun dun dun dun That pisses me off, too. It was shocking to me to learn that about him. 14. And it's the best thing that ever happened to me, because when I was in New York, I was hanging out with Howard McGhee and Earl Coleman and Charlie Parker and shitI would have been a junkie for life. She has an older sister, Kidada Jones, and five half-siblings by her father's other relationships. 20. Seen all that. At 18, he was readyor as ready as one could be: "The band bus with Lionel Hampton got 33 people on it. It sometimes seems as though it would be easier to go through the history of the past 70 years and try to isolate the most significant figures Quincy Jones never encountered. Jones was indeed given that advice, but shortly after he recovered he went on tour in Japan. A person's either like that or they're not, man.". The one that you always hear? Do you like her? Stockholm shes coming in next week. It was unbelievable, man. "No. "With her notes on them in French. You could really have a conversation in 26 languages? Jones was then married to Ulla Andersson, with whom he shares a son, Quincy, and a daughter, Martina, from 1967 to 1974. You know, all these women were available all over the world. That was a terrible thing that Tupac said about you. I ain't gonna lie. " Prince, it seems, had brought a gift for his host. L-E-R-O-motherfucking-Y.' (10). She is also a dancer and photographer. I believe he made you scrambled eggs once? Jeffrey Bezos." "Fucking insane," he says. "Tupac was the love of my life," Kidada. She was a bitch, man. He was there. But, you know, here's the bottom line: If the cover's fucked-up, if it's the wrong studio, wrong engineer, wrong background groups, wrong tempos for the songs, and all that stuffif that's fucked-up, it's all the producer's fault. The boozers here and the junkies there. ", "Yeah, but I came up with Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra, man. We'd do one-nighters, I'd fly with him on his Learjet, he said, 'Let's get on the plane before Basie's drummer's cymbal stops ringing.' Six Playboy bunnies on that. That's the primate in us, the four F's: Fright, Fight, Flight, and Fuck. I didn't tell him. But it's characteristic of his spirit that as he sits down he is already telling me about his present and his future: "I never been this busy in my life. I Thought Mentalphysics Was New-Age Nonsense. I love him. Cairo. When did you realize that she was troubled? Cairo, whew.". But she was not well. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. According to Cheat Sheet, Kikada used to be in a relationship with late HipHop star, Tupac Shakur. (He has six girls and one boy.) Jones met Oprah Winfrey when he recommended her for a role in The Color Purple, a movie he produced and for which she was nominated for an Academy Award, after spotting her on local TV in Chicago. (1946-2019) Who Was Peggy Lipton? Jones was drawn to gang life as a child. In my opinion, youre destroying it and shitting all over your people. Even when it comes to politics, the range of Joness access and experience is hard to believe. Since I was a little kid, I've always heard the people that don't wanna do the work. She is a Swedish-American model. I said, 'Impossible, man, I was with him last night.' Quincy Jones with Michael Jackson at the 1984 Grammy Awards, where Thriller won Album of the Year. Photo Credits: ALBANE NAVIZET/ KIPA /SYGMA /GETTY IMAGES; (Photo by John Dominis/ Time & Life Pictures/ Getty Images), (Photo by Lipnitzki/Roger Viollet/Getty Images). Mostly we talk about the past, naturally, and we get there soon enough. Was told not to marry actresses or singers. "Yeah. Even more interesting is the fact that the musician shares his kids with five different women. He sighs, as if to acknowledge how surreal the contrast is between the scene here, in his grand hilltop mansion surrounded by all his reminders of a lifetime of success and high living, and the world he is describing. So we called each other Leroy till the day he died.". Artist: Brothers JohnsonAlbum: Look Out For #1Label: A&MCertification: GoldRelease date: June 12, 1976Weeks at No. And I went over the back of the seat and did like that on his shoulders: 'Pac!' Jones gives me a look, a kind of incredulity that is some mixture of horror and bewilderment. "He sure did. Tommy guns and stogies, stacks of wine and liquor, big piles of money in back rooms, that's all I ever saw. Chicago is tough. He made a damn fool out of himself, didn't he?" In 1972 Quincy Jones was the theme song composer for the hit-sitcom, Sanford And Son. Born in Chicago in 1933, the multifaceted artist rose through the ranks in the music industry after dropping out of Berklee College of Music in Boston and starting his touring career. He had brain surgery, after which he was told that he had a second aneurysm ready to blow. And then Daddy came out finally and hit 'em in a head with a hammer. There is absolutely no combination of words that can express the sadness I feel after losing my beloved Peggy Lipton.My wife of 14 years, he wrote on Instagram alongside a slideshow of old pictures with her. Ignorance is no thing.". Quite a life, from eating rats there, to being here now. He was a wild dude, man.". "Oh yeah, he spoke to him. It was before he went to prison. "They be thinking I'm 84 and retired and all that shit. "I don't know. Everywhere. He worries often that he'll say too much ("I always get in trouble, you know. Here are some reflections on the early days of rock 'n' roll: "I was with Tommy Dorsey when Presley showed up at 17 years old. And Dorsey said, 'Fuck himI won't play with him.' I think back about thatthat's scary." Can I ask how old the youngest one is, and the oldest one? He makes clear he is mainly talking about his daughters with Lipton, Kidada and Rashida, who are 43 and 41, respectively. By this point, Jones was already very successfulas an arranger, as a solo artist, as a composer for movies and TVbut he'd first made his name as a trumpet player. He points to a scar he's had on his hand for 77 years. It was fun, man. That's how he paid his bills. There is a lot of talking to do. My mind's so clear now, you know. Harlem and Compton don't mean shit after Chicago in the '30sthey look like Boys Town to me. (1) But these seem almost trivial and incidental alongside the actual life he's lived. Meat is meat. He was tough, man. I met him in 51it was about 20 years later. One of these was part of the National GuardJones lied and said that he was 18 so that he could join. How do you know Prince was trying to run him over? I know those motherfuckers backwards.". (29). Dont you ever forget theyre 13 years smarter than we are. But you can tell something's wrong. Daisy Jones & The Six, the fictional band at the center of the story, records an award-winning and critically acclaimed album called "Aurora." Reid's novel describes a 10-song tracklist and includes an official lyric booklet. I guess you're supposed to be the one to slow it down. In the show, only three songs retain their original names: the title track, "Please," and "Regret Me." GQ may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Back then I was dogging it up, and Jeri and her sister were the hotsy-totsies at school, he recalled. "It's life, man. They're taking music back where it belongs. You feel blessed that somehow you forgot, or whatever. (17) He was hitting on herhe changed his mind now, you know? Frank could cook, man. Vegas in '64 was fucked-up. Quincy and Martina's mom were married between 1967 and 1974 when they got divorced. The most famous of the murders committed by the Manson family under Charles Mansons instructions, though this fact wouldnt become clear for some time. I said, 'Leroy, he's a star breakdancer at 14 years old in Sweden, man. Now he was told that he had a clip on a blood vessel in his brain, and that if he blew a trumpet in the ways that a trumpet player must, the clip would come free and he would die. Quincy was 19 years old when he married Jeri, but admitted she wasnt his first true love just the first love he married. That happened all the time. I'm in the center. It was shortlisted as one of the 15 documentaries up for an Oscar nomination, but it progressed no further. (15) [My grandmother] was an ex-slave, you know. Meanwhile, there appear to be no rm plans for Jones to have a formal role in the Jackson estate or the Shakur estate. He didn't realize the guy was a pimp. Did you have any happy memories of your mother before things went wrong? Shit, man. Shit, all those cats in New York. He produced albums for celebrated artists, including Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson. (27). he asks at one point, then answers his own question. ", "Why not??? To date, he has 28 Grammy awards to his name, one Emmy, and seven Oscar nominations. I said, 'Michael, I need you to just murmur and beg, and [use] soft falsetto voice low, so you get a contrast to the dee do da da day do do. And for a few moments, Quincy Jones seems completely, wondrously transfixed. Come on, man. Do you ever wish you'd been a different way? Then he'll gesture to the SpaceX model rocket across the room, over toward the library. Crazy motherfucker, but he was a talented man. Another, smaller painting is one of Joness bathrooms. When Jones says that he "lost 66 friends last year" and begins to list recent departures"David Bowie, George Martin"it's more than an acknowledgment of some recent rough years. How did the conversation about doing the song together go? And Richard Brooks said, 'Fuck you, he's doing the music.' I read that your mother did something awful, too. I mean, I almost had a heart attack. Quincy Jones has been married three times, and has seven children with five different women. Life is a trip.". I ended up with two actresses, Peggy Lipton and Nastassja Kinski (9), and a superstar model. "Oh my God, it was freaky. "Yeah. "No, they're gonna want somebody younger. "That's heavy. You get one take.' By 1964, he was named a vice president of Mercury Records, making him the first Black man to hold such a heavy position at a white-owned record company, per the American Academy of Achievement. So did I hear that they've said to you that you could live until 120? Truman Capote. "All the guys in the Vatican had these Vatican black shoes," Jones recalls, but not the Pope. To me, it's like orchestration. Hollywood Life, Latest Hollywood Celebrity & Entertainment News. Him playing alto, buck dancing around the pool. Shit. Shit, I've got some great dishes, man. Taking a post at the Adult Education Division at Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles was a turning point for Talita, where she met a mentor who encouraged her to get her teaching credentials from UCLA in the mid-80s. From award-winning writing and photography to binge-ready videos to electric live events, GQ meets millions of modern men where they live, creating the moments that create conversations. ", "No. Jones wrote the soundtrack for Roots; Haley had investigated Joness genealogical background and was working with Jones on Joness autobiography before he died. ". She said, 'We were doing a recruitment film for Hitlerthink I'm going to tell Hitler, "One more time, Adolf!"?' This is a human being, man. 7. (When I ask to use the bathroom, Jones replies, I got 13when youre 84, you gotta take no chances.), "Good. First Brown invites Jackson to the stage. I didn't know that was a perception of you. Lena, Belafonte, Fats Domino, they used to play the main theater for $17,000 a week, used to have to eat in the kitchen. But the music legend dropped a bomb. You wrote in your book that you'd heard your father had a white father who'd killed someone, but you weren't sure of the story. He met his rst wife, Jeri Caldwell, in high school. (4). "He said, 'I'll meet you at Sharon's, because I've got some stuff for your hair,' " Jones remembers. "Very much, man. It means if you've got it at 12, you know you're going all the way.". You ever see Black Orpheus? What memories. In fact, he will say it in my presence 89 times. The second time Quincy Jones sidestepped fate came in 1974, when he was 41. "And then I said, 'Come here, motherfucker, I've got to talk to you.' It's the one that has been available for over a decade, where the screen shows an ever-evolving swirl of lights, like a small rectangular window into the greatest aurora borealis ever seen. Jones spent his early years on the South Side of Chicago. Fry it, in a frying pan. I can solve a puzzlea problem just stresses me out. : "They made that little monster, and he looked too much like a brother. I don't give a shit." If there's anything I've learned in 84 years, it's that whatever you put out there, it will come back at you. Piccolo. Hollywood Life They had three girls and my father, and they were light-skinned, high yellow, straight hair.". Then It Changed My Life. He said, 'Knowledge on acting is very important for television and movies, but it's ten times more important when you've been out with one woman all night till 5:30 in the morning and you have to go home to your wife. Jones is referring to the legendary eveningAugust 20, 1983when both Michael Jackson and Prince attended a James Brown show at the Beverly Theater in Los Angeles. One day he felt a pain in his head, and then he collapsed. Some people he knew moved into the other house. Julie Taymor to directthat's my baby, biggest in history, Lion King. Aforementioned, Quincy Jones ' daughter, Jolie Jones Levine, is an actress, musician, and activist. "I'm gonna send up some stuff. Came to the hotel one day and there was an invitationshe wanted me to have lunch with her. I saw all of it. He was first married to Jeri Caldwell from 1957 to 1966, and they had a daughter named Jolie. Boy, that was heavy. He said, 'Okay, I'll get him acting lessons.' In the past, Jones has spoken of an incident on his fifth or sixth birthday, when his mother took his coconut birthday cake and threw it, for no discernible reason, onto the back porch. That's the way it works. Since 1957, GQ has inspired men to look sharper and live smarter with its unparalleled coverage of style, culture, and beyond. This time he listened. "Oprah dramatizes everything. And so he never has. "Well, listen, anger doesn't get anything done, so you have to find out: How do you make it work? ", "I was afraid to talk to him, really. Ray had me on heroin for five months. (24). And that's what makes it important.' "Prince told Michael he'd kill him if he showed it to anybody," Jones explains, but one way or another, time-coded raw footage of what took place that night eventually surfaced. Then we went upstairs, and he saw the chimpanzee and the snake, he said, 'Now, that's interesting.' You put some lime in the meringue. He was a character, man. Obviously, Ray Charles carried on for a long time. Take em, put 'em in the bag, and go home, and she takes care of that. Everywhere. Did you ever see that thing with James Brown?". I wouldn't make it up. Her father is African-American and her mother is Ashkenazi Jewish (a descendant of emigrants from Russia and Latvia). Children. He bit [Jones' daughter] Rashida." Jones, who was married three times, says that these days: "I got 22 girlfriends . ", "No, no, no. I mean, when you're hungry. As Jones talks, a woman brings some food and puts it on the table. Prince. "But they don't know, man. "And they stuck an ice pick"he points to his left temple"in here, the same time. You can't even imagine that. Whew. You know, that he made that kind of judgmental thing so quick. Quincy Jones with Michael Jackson at the 1984 Grammy Awards, . And the big bands, that's like the school of the dogs. I said, 'Oh, my man's got some pimp shoes on.' Or the occasion in May 2007, when Oprah brought Barack and Michelle Obama 'round to this house in an attempt, unsuccessful at the time, to woo Jones away from his friends the Clintons. Mary Jackson Oliver - 1833-1886 Children of George and Mary Jackson Oliver: William John Oliver - 1859-1918 George Oliver, Jr. - 1862-1946 David Oliver - 1864-1910 Margaret Elizabeth Oliver - 1867-1945 Simon Oliver - 1870-1931. Cairo. ", "Good, man. When Quincy Jones talkswandering from subject to subject as he doesthe next famous name is rarely more than a few seconds away, but it doesn't seem like name-dropping or showing off. "I'm writing Mandarin, writing Arabic, writing katakana in Japan. Miles (5) said the same thing, on a different occasion, at the Chateau Marmont. And her first husband was black. Fuck, man, I thought I was gonna die. His mouth is inside, but he just ate the parrot so he couldn't get out of the cage. Jacqueline and Picasso. Let me show you that big one, because you cant notice the nasty on this right away. Said: 'The name ain't "man," it's "Leroy." [Prince] said, 'Relax your lips, girl.' Couldn't go in the casino. Prince appeared in the studio, right, back when you and Michael were recording 'Off the Wall'? 24. "I'll write music," he says. It was actually two years later, in 1957, and Presley was 21 when he first appeared on the Dorsey brothers' Stage Show. And he paid attention, and that's what you're supposed to do. "No e-mails, no faxes, no calls." That's the story of America. That's the only way you can be great, you know, is pay attention to the best guys who ever did it. "The box had all kinds of stuffsome cuff links with Tootsie Rolls on them. "It was scary," he says. Nope. Read on to learn about Quincy Jones three previous wives. My brother and I, we were 6 and 7 years old, we watched her taken away in a straitjacket. Zodiac Sign: Libra. I wanted to take it, because I knew Michael was gonna throw it away.". 'Cause I don't think like that.I stopped drinking two years ago.

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