But the music legend dropped a bomb. "Very much, man. 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. Buzz Aldrin took the song with him on a portable cassette. I said, 'Impossible, man, I was with him last night.' Dont you ever forget it., Click to Subscribe to Get Our Free HollywoodLife Daily Newsletter, Allison Holker Snuggles Up To Kids Maddox, 7, & Zaia, 3, Nearly 3 Months After Twitchs Tragic Death, Ariana Madix Hangs With Pal Kristen Doute Amid Tom Sandoval & Raquel Leviss Cheating Drama, Tom Sizemore Dead: Acclaimed Actor Dies At 61 After Brain Aneurysm, Ozzy & Sharon Osbournes Grandkids: Meet Their Grandchildren, Shoppers Say This Nicole Kidman-Approved Brands $4 Lip Balm Is the Best of the Best for Healing Cracked Lips, Did Vanderpump Rules Tom Cheated on Ariana With Raquel? Man, the song is the shitthat's what people don't realize. Are you angry, or just baffled? His father, also called Quincy Jones, worked as a carpenter (8) for, as his son now puts it, "the most notorious gangsters on the planet, the Jones boys." Alcohol. I dont see you ghting for your race. This time he listened. I am never retiring! They had two children, Rashida and Kidada. In 2007, she released anautobiography called Red Carpet Blues. . Ray had me on heroin for five months. Traveling bands? He disappears, and Jones's attention returns to me. "Bezosthe richest motherfucker in the world now. Jones is a doting father to seven children, Rashida, Kidada, Kenya, Quincy, Jolie Levie, Martina, and Rachel. He didn't have a top on. Julie Taymor to directthat's my baby, biggest in history, Lion King. It was about her passion for her profession.". Quincy Jones has a history of dropping hits having produced Michael Jackson 's "Billie Jean," "Beat It," "Thriller" and countless other iconic songs. It was horrible.". Charlie Parker, everybody there, was married to a white wife.". Together they had Quincy's first child, daughter Jolie. ", "Knowing what you're doing. That's how this story is usually told, anyway. Hollywood Life, Latest Hollywood Celebrity & Entertainment News. I've never turned my antennae off. Because you feel helpless. (27). Jones, who will release a memoir, shared his. In July he was awarded $9.42 million. 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. Jones' final marriage was to actress Peggy Lipton. That's why I was always maniacal about transforming every problem into a puzzle which I can solve. "You see me with an 84-year-old woman? You know, that he made that kind of judgmental thing so quick. "Well, my daughters gave me new numbers, because they kept saying, 'Dad, you can't go out with girls younger than us.' After I leaveit's shortly before midnightQuincy Jones will do some Sudoku. 20. In more recent times, Jones has hung out with Aldrin: Hes a wild motherfucker., "Yeah, 1969. He was bipolar, you know. And the chimpanzee, whatever the fuck it was, he was a pain in the ass. At 84 years old, Quincy Jones has no problem speaking his truth, as proven by recent interviews where he dishes on his 22 girlfriends, biopic choices, dating the first daughter and Michael Jackson . It means if you've got it at 12, you know you're going all the way.". And red beans and rice. I was going to do a film with him and Snoop Dogg, Pimp, [about] Iceberg Slim.". "He said, 'I'll meet you at Sharon's, because I've got some stuff for your hair,' " Jones remembers. "Je ne regrette rien de tout. ", Now, as you know, some people say that at a certain age the desire just evaporates., A few minutes later he shows me photos of some of his children: "When you've been a dog all your life, God gives you beautiful daughters and you have to suffer. And we went and talked, and after that we hugged and made up. Jacqueline and Picasso. Buzz Aldrin. "You know, because it's somebody you admire, and you see that they got this little old ragged-ass convention of racism going. Because they think that's all you like, but that's stupid, man. "Hell yeah. You know, we became good friends after that. Lemon rules, man. Or he'll say, pretty much apropos of nothing at all, "You run into amazing peopleI'm thinking back to Norman Mailer, man. Where the hell would you be if Black people like him hadnt paved the way for you to even have the opportunity to express yourself? Shanghaigot a great girl over there from Shanghai, man. "Whatever crumbles your cookie. For the past eight years, he has spent six days a year at an exclusive hospital in Stockholm"with 14 Nobel doctors, some of the smartest molly trotters on the planet"benefiting from the most cutting-edge medical technology. His pastashit!". Jones was indeed given that advice, but shortly after he recovered he went on tour in Japan. When something like that happensnearly being at this terrible eventwhat does it make you think? Was told not to marry actresses or singers. I guess you're supposed to be the one to slow it down. You can't even imagine that. She knows you've been out fucking around!'". "I forgive everybody. "Shit, everybody in the band bought it! At 18, he was readyor as ready as one could be: "The band bus with Lionel Hampton got 33 people on it. "From wanting to be a gangster toall the other stuff.". He laughs. And Richard Brooks said, 'Fuck you, he's doing the music.' He then listed where theyre all from. "Never. Just get 'em. 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. "He had a perspective on details that was unmatched. She looked like Hedy Lamarr when she was young. He's 17 years oldhe doesn't know what he's talking about. Every fucking night it was like the girls coming through Neiman Marcus: 'Oh, I like trumpet players,' 'I like sax players,' 'I like guitar players' Rita Hayworth, all of them. That's tough, man. ", "With some greens. He bit [Jones' daughter] Rashida." Jones, who was married three times, says that these days: "I got 22 girlfriends . Regardless of the paths that our lives took us on, I can say with the utmost certainty, that love is eternal. He'd dance his ass off. She has an older sister, Kidada Jones, and five half-siblings by her father's other relationships. "It was just very obvious what the hell happenedmade a damn fool out of himself. Would you ever go out with anyone your own age? "I'll write music," he says. And he did, and the 32 clubs gave him the licenses back. ", "No, no, no, no, no, no, no. He's racist like a motherfucker.". They remained friends until Sinatras death. "That's the higher power. But she was not well. Benzedrine. And then Daddy came out finally and hit 'em in a head with a hammer. "But your dreams always have to be big. The only place you find success before work is the dictionary, and that's alphabetical.". Sinatra, he went on, "wore that for 40 years. "I'm gonna send up some stuff. But it wants more and more all the time. And it won't bother you as long as you give it everything it wants. This is his normal schedule: Rise around four or five in the afternoon, and then ride through the night, his mind racing. Early life and education [ edit] The elder daughter of the marriage between composer/arranger Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton, [2] [3] Jones was born in Los Angeles, California. "A little raggedy-ass car. "Yeah. Framed on a wall of his sons mansion is the saw that the senior Quincy Jones rst used in 1928. I didn't know that was a perception of you. ", Jones's first proper, sustained job as a professional musician came when he went on the road, playing trumpet with the band leader Lionel Hampton, when Jones was 18. "Yes sir. And when the rest of the city is fully asleep, that's when Quincy Jones, three months short of his 85th birthday, will really get to work. Lemon knocks out hot sauce, garlic, onions, everything. Tupac and Kidada subsequently dated. Them cats didn't play. Get out of here. 11. It's incredible. "Oprah dramatizes everything. Sadly, their marriage was over within years and was finalized in 1974 so Quincy could go on to marry his third wife, Peggy Lipton. That's heavy, isn't it? "I was married three times, man. My mind's so clear now, you know. Come on. The actor also has two daughters from other relationships. So he's just hanging there till he digests it. He died in her arms pretty much" Would you ever say to Michael, "This stuff is strange"? Seven double Jack Daniel's an hour. Quincy Jones married Jeri Caldwell in 1957. Then It Changed My Life. He was a bad motherfucker, man. L-E-R-O-motherfucking-Y.' And we went out there to see her, Manteno State Hospital. ", "Michael's parrot. I stay at his castle in Dublin, because Ireland and Scotland are so racist it's frightening. Catching this in the corner of his eye, Jones stops talking. I love 'em so much. But that was just a coincidence." ". And it's the best thing I ever did. And in Paris to this day, you go to Chez L'Ami Louis, the waiter will come over to you with a pepper shaker and say, 'Here's your Rubirosa.' You ever see Black Orpheus? That's the way it was back then. Judging by how often he mentions it, the documentary Keep On Keepin' Onwhich follows the friendship between the ailing trumpet player Clark Terry, who once mentored Jones, and a young blind jazz pianist, Justin Kauflinis one of Jones's recent projects that he takes the most pride in. "With her notes on them in French. Prince appeared in the studio, right, back when you and Michael were recording 'Off the Wall'? But I can't touch it.". And she was illiterate. "What is there to think, man? How come you think you've been a dog all your life? Because it's not going anywhere right now. "Try me." He said 'I'm goin'.' 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. Quincy Jones, 89, has enjoyed a booming career as a top-tier music and film producer with more than 60 years in the business. That happened all the time. "We were, you know, 7 years old. It was a terrible way to live, you know. 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. His mouth is inside, but he just ate the parrot so he couldn't get out of the cage. He was the dope dealer. We came almost in love with each other. I've been a fan of hers since Triumph of the Will. Later he was told that he'd had a one-in-a-hundred chance of surviving. Thriller was the second of the three Michael Jackson albums Jones produced, after Off the Wall and before Bad. "All the guys in the Vatican had these Vatican black shoes," Jones recalls, but not the Pope. (1946-2019) Who Was Peggy Lipton? Because that's a big motherfucker, man. One example was when you started doing film soundtracks. 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. He has won 28 Grammy Awards. 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. "Oh, give me a fucking break, man, please. "Well, because I had three wives, white wives, and they stereotype, you know. He either loved you with all of his heart or else he'd roll over your ass in a Mack truck in reverse. At the dinner party Jones had missed, at Sharon Tate's house, all five guests had been brutally murdered. (26), "Yes! Quincy Jones in 1978 worked on music for the Wiz, this is where he met icon, Michael Jackson. The pair were. And her first husband was black. "I'll figure something out. "You need anything?" Talk about what? For one thing, he seems to know, or have known, everybody. It's just something else. When I arrived here this evening, Jones had just woken up. 4. I saw all of it. And he went up therehe was the only white dude in the whole place. We had lunch with him. While they were still married, Jones had a daughter, Kidada with Peggy Lipton. He met his rst wife, Jeri Caldwell, in high school. What did you think when you realized how close you'd been? And when I cook, I cook like an orchestrator. "That's heavy. How'd you know? He used to work for the roughest gang in the history of Chicago, the Jones boys - black gangsters. Amazing process of producing those albums, man. His collection of trumpets, including Dizzy Gillespie's, is mounted on the wall of his living room, behind the bar, and he describes the instruments with evident love. He got paranoidgot outside and ran 15 blocks, nobody after him. Even Leni Riefenstahl. Harlem and Compton don't mean shit after Chicago in the '30sthey look like Boys Town to me. He'd get drunk, and Jilly, his right-hand guy, stone gangster, would get behind him and break the guy's ribs. Kidada Jones was raised in Bel Air, where her home was often frequented by celebrities like Michael Jackson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. When she said that, it opened up a door for me. In early 1969, Steve McQueen called Jones and asked him to go and see a rough cut of Bullitt. Appeals are ongoing. In 2018, he revealed he has 22 girlfriends during an interview with GQ. Frank Sinatra. "Yes, he did. . The record producer once spoke candidly about his love life during an interview. ", You and Frank Sinatra had the first song played on the moon, didn't you? When he died, I grabbed USA Today, and Bono said, 'Quincy said he had some lovely loafers on.' ", "Yeah. ", "Yeah, but she was always sabotaging it. I remember one day we were out there working at Hayvenhurst, and we couldn't find Muscles, and we went downstairsthey were refurbishing this room down thereand here this cat, man, is hanging out of the parrot cage. "Because, you know, I don't knowit's etiquette. You really met Leni Riefenstahl? Since 1957, GQ has inspired men to look sharper and live smarter with its unparalleled coverage of style, culture, and beyond. My people were from Mississippi. Oh my God, they're fearless, man. His head fell off. He was a character, man. ", "Yeah! "No e-mails, no faxes, no calls." That's the way it works. You're 7nothing's scary to you, man. Then we went upstairs, and he saw the chimpanzee and the snake, he said, 'Now, that's interesting.' 16. And so for a while they were shipped out of Chicago and lived with their grandmother in a shotgun shack in Louisville. You know at Motown they sing high all the time, and I had to send him to Seth Riggs (19) to give me another fourth range on top and a fourth on bottom because I need a little more range. Just see what you can put up with, what you can't.". That ain't never gonna change. I got a tape on that." Didn't you plan to act in a movie together? Michael went up there, in 40 seconds, sang I love you I love you. 26. Plus, he has worked with some of the biggest names of all time, such as Michael Jackson and Frank Sinatra. That's the Ghetto Gump shit. She's dead now. Born and raised in The Bronx, Jolie Jones' husband, Stewart Levine, began his lifelong musical journey at the young age of . Jones was then married to Ulla Andersson, with whom he shares a son, Quincy, and a daughter, Martina, from 1967 to 1974. Well, I missed the trumpet.". We had to go and kiss his hand before we left. Michael was scared to deathhe thought there was some voodoo in there. His final marriage was to actress Peggy Lipton. 30. Jeri has one acting credit to her name, for an appearance in 1994s Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult. It was shortlisted as one of the 15 documentaries up for an Oscar nomination, but it progressed no further. It's champagne-selling noise.". "I don't give a fuck. "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. Everywhere. It's like a film director, man. They were good-looking guys, they had all the girls they wanted, and they showed you how to deal with it. Sinatra and Ray Charles, them motherfuckers invented partying." Fry it, in a frying pan. And the curiosity's at an all-time high. CharlieI used to go to things with Charlie Parker, manboy, he'd have everybody smoke some weed and he'd have, like, the founders of Sears Roebuck, the ladies walking around the pool, all of them nude, man. I met him in 51it was about 20 years later. I just think that's who they are, you know. All he does is stick his dick in white bitches and make fucked-up kids.". This is his family crest from Sicily.". We shared many, many beautiful memories, & most importantly, we share two incredible daughtersPie (@kidadajonesog) & Doonkie (@rashidajones), he continued. Shit, man. He killed every motherfucker he could see.". Let me ask you about someone completely different. She was Goebbels's girlfriendhe was like the publicist for the Third Reich, you know. GQ may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. ", "Oh, they grabbed me, and they took a switchblade knife and nailed my hand to the fence right there." She voiced one of the characters in the adventure-fantasy film 'The Wiz.' Twelve languages, everything. This is not generally understood to have ever been their relationshipin fact Riefenstahl often spoke of her dislike for Goebbelsthough in his diaries Goebbels did write of socializing with her in the early 1930s. There is the career, of course: the jazz musician, the arranger, the record executive, the soundtrack composer, the solo artist, the producer of the biggest pop album in history, the entrepreneur, the media magnate, the film and TV producer, the philanthropistand on and on. You know, I'd see him try to fighthe couldn't fight worth a shit. Sitting with me, icking through a book of photographs, Jones comes across one of the two of them together. Big gangs on every street. BrazilBelo Horizonte, So Paulo, and Rio. That was my old lady, Marpessa Dawn. So, who are the women who once held they key to the music industry icons heart? Snoopy (25) looking at him like he's crazy. Mavericks Flat was a Los Angeles dance club sometimes known as the Apollo of the West. On the way home, Lloyd said to me, 'My brother, you shall have no pie!' That's because they said cocaine would take you from your woman. Probably because I didn't have a mother. So did I hear that they've said to you that you could live until 120? And you look all across the walls, his bones with his writing on them. ", "Yeah! They were very in love. Eleven-inch dong. Richard was tough.". Jeri hit on me first. Is it true that you can cook the best lemon-meringue pie? It was before he went to prison. Because it was frightening, and every day you never knew what was happening. Jones is one of just a handful of people who have accomplished the EGOTwinner of at least one Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. What would you and Marlon do when you got together? [Prince] said"snapping angrily" 'It's Minneapolis!' A brain aneurysm. [Prince] said, 'Relax your lips, girl.' Jones also has several of Daviss libidinous paintings in his house. Ad Choices. "Well, what do you say? "Yeah, I love Kendrick Lamar, I love Bruno Mars, I love Drake, I love Ludacris, I love Common. ", "Look where we've come," he says, raising his eyes to the ceiling. Are they pretty confident you can get there? That's how he went to prison.". I mean, the other guys were dead. You think a huge part of the horror of Nazism was just down to cocaine? Her debut album, No Time No Space No Age No Race Thats Nifty!, was released in 1979. he says, taken aback. You first met Michael when he was 12, right? ), "Oh, pleasehe went 30 years with heroin, and then the police told him he couldn't get his license to play clubs unless he stops. 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. And mine were huge.". And it's amazingwomen get it, man. At that, Marlon turned around and freaked out. I didn't listen to all the advice." 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. He laughs. Because they hung him up, man, and cut his nuts off and everythingJay Sebring. 28. In 1972 Quincy Jones was the theme song composer for the hit-sitcom, Sanford And Son. We both ordered sole meunire, which is one of my favorite dishes of all time from Paris, and after he'd finish he'd take the bones and push it out in the sun and let the sun parch the bones, and he'd take out these three colors, orange and blue and red, and when the waiter would say, 'L'addition, s'il vous plat,' Picasso would push that. That's why the second one had blue eyes." Peggy Lipton, an American actress, model, and singer known for appearing in Mission Impossible and Twin Peaks, was Quincys longest marriage, as they walked down the aisle in 1974 and divorced in1989. Oh Godman, this is not going too well. "I got 22 girlfriends.". That's where we bought our dope. Did you ever see that thing with James Brown?". And that's the most incredible meeting I've ever had in my life. There is a lot of talking to do. "I don't blame her.". And you assumed you'd become a gangster, too? I read that your mother did something awful, too. Jones and Lipton welcomed two children. Gorgeous lady, man.". "It's life, man. (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've been traveling all my life, and I guarantee I travel more than any motherfucker on this planet.". "I don't know, man, but it was strong. Jones made her professional acting debut in The Last Don, a 1997 mini-series based on the novel by Mario Puzo. My daughter Kidada calls me LL QJLoose Lips"), but it doesn't really seem to stem the flow. Ain't never forget that. Party our ass off. She said, 'We were doing a recruitment film for Hitlerthink I'm going to tell Hitler, "One more time, Adolf!"?' 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So he'll refer to the time Nelson Mandela tried to get him to touch a cheetah"I couldn't do it"and then he'll mention that Colin Powell called a couple of days ago because Powell was annoyed at how Tyler Perry appeared to be portraying him in a forthcoming movie. How did the conversation about doing the song together go? When we first went in, there was a little blonde lady there, standing up with no shoes on, in her underwear, and she had a bowl of feces and she says, 'You shall have no pie!' It was never political. Do what you want to do, and nobody can tell you what to do. Every week we'd have two or three dinners with Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin and all those cats. "To try to sell me on them," he says. ", "Did it hurt? I don't give a shit." "Yeah. Actress Peggy Lipton started out as a model in New York in the 1960s. I Thought Mentalphysics Was New-Age Nonsense. The fashion connoisseur is the daughter of Quincy from his third marriage. Quincy was first married to actress Jeri Caldwell, from 1957 to 1966. Mostly we talk about the past, naturally, and we get there soon enough. He always used to say, 'Quincy, it's by the head, not the bed. He had a brief affair with Carol Reynolds, which resulted in a daughter named Rachel. He also noted that his girlfriends are all aware of each other. 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.' My brother and I, we were 6 and 7 years old, we watched her taken away in a straitjacket. Because we all used to hang out together. I noticed that she stopped at the water fountain every day the dog squad is real good at noticing patterns. After Jones's mother was taken away in a straitjacket, his father felt unable to look after Quincy and his brother, Lloyd. "Muscles used to come and wrap around me, my leg, around the chair, and crawl across the console. But if you're black, that's what you get used to in America.". It's imperative. Cairo. When we meet, celebrity sexual harassers are falling like dominoes. "I'm writing a street operafor my album.". When you're 7 you can't tell the difference. In the late 1960s, Jones nearly bought the house, but the owner at the time said he would only rent it, so Jones bought a house from the actress Janet Leigh on Deep Canyon Drive instead. (24). The Oscar was awarded in 1994 for his humanitarian work. Even if, at home, he was facing new challenges: "My stepmother was like Precious. "The muses come out at midnight," he says. Said 'Jones's kids.' You know, I came up with the two wildest motherfuckers on the planet. Nothing you ever did was right. "Hell no!" Al . If you think today's bad As a young kid, after my mother was taken away, my brother and I, we saw dead bodies every day. It was unbelievable, man. Did you have any happy memories of your mother before things went wrong? "Fucking insane," he says. And four years later, Jerry Lee Lewis copies it (13), records it, and becomes a legend. That's for sure.". 1. It's bullshit. You could really have a conversation in 26 languages? "Well, shit, the history proves how it affected him. Finding a job without a computer in the design industry was hard, and the artist was on welfare for a time. She soon moved on to acting roles, appearing in such TV series as Bewitched and The John . Piccolo. Cape Town. "That's when he first met Kidada. Michael Jackson. . He begins talking about his life. "Oh yeah, he spoke to him. 23. Jones composed the theme to Cosbys rst sitcom. "No, I wouldn't talk. Although Quincy has not spoken much about their union, he had nothing but praises to sing about Peggy when she died in May 2019. ", "Yeah. ", "She knew I was a fan, and I was over there [in Berlin]. But for a young boy, there was only the sense that something was very much not as it should be. When you heard that someone like Truman Capote had said something like that, what did you think? Whew. "I don't know. "Oh yeah. Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra. Great guy, man. And so he never has. Said: 'The name ain't "man," it's "Leroy." He nods. Meanwhile, there appear to be no rm plans for Jones to have a formal role in the Jackson estate or the Shakur estate.