Quincy Jones knew Sinatra. Michael Jackson. Malcolm X. Prince. Tupac. Truman Capote & has a tale to go with every famous name

He doesn't think Taylor Swift has any talent.

That was a good read, OP. Thanks!

This really is a good article. Read it if you can.

The Ghetto Gump!

[quote] Prince tried to run over Michael Jackson, LaToya and their mother after a James Brown concert

Let's be honest: who HASN'T wanted to run over Michael, Katherine, and LaToya Jackson?

[quote] He doesn't think Taylor Swift has any talent.

Similarly, he also thinks water is wet!

"Je ne regrette rien de tout. I don't regret shit."

That made me laugh

[quote] My brother and I, we were 6 and 7 years old, we watched [our mother] taken away in a straitjacket. That's tough, man. And we went out there to see her, Manteno State Hospital. Boy, that was heavy. 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!' I said, 'God, let me out of there.' "

A new Datalounge classic line!

It's a wonder Rashida Jones grew up so normal with him as a father. On the other hand, there's no denying that he's an absolutely remarkable man.

He’s definitely lived an incredible life.

Rashida probably bumped into Q at a party or two during her childhood. I really doubt that he was changing her diapers and reading bedtime stories. Most likely, they were strangers until she turned 21.

Ugh, these quotes just feed the narrative that rich white woman Taylor Swift is a V I C T I M.

“Why do the mean black men like Kanye and Quincy hate her so much? Are they jealous? Are they desperate to fuck her?”

22 'girlfriends' around the world...

The man is insane

[quote}He currently has 22 girlfriends around the world ages 28-42

#MeToo #TimesUp

Of course he’s got 22 girlfriends. Why not 42 or 72?

The man hasn’t had an erection or an interest in sex in 20 years. But that’s no fun to talk about to GQ. So instead it’s girls, girls, so many girls!

I've always suspected Sinatra passed Marilyn around like a box of Christmas candy.

The Leni Riefenstahl story is likely true, but it was meth, not coke. the Nazis loved their meth (historical fact)

and R16 and now Hef is in the grave next to hers .

Ray Charles was shooting up heroin in his testicles? Who knew?!

I wonder if Quincy knew, or would admit, that Tupac was actually gay?

Actually, Quincy published his memoir a number of years ago. I've got it somewhere here at home.

We heard that Quincy is a homosexual.

I am really sick of everybody in Hollywood saying that they were supposed to be at Sharon Tate's the night of the Manson murders. There was a thread on that said Steve McQueen was supposed to have been there that night. There was a thread about Robert Evans that said he was supposed to have been there that night. There's a B-list former actress (actually she was more like D-list) named Fiona Lewis who was in Roman Polanski's movie "The Fearless Vampire Killers"; she said SHE was supposed to have been at the house that night. I think ALL of these claims, including the one where Quincy Jones was supposed to have gone over to Tate's house to pick up hair products, are utter horseshit.

Damn, Quincy was a handsome young man.

You don't have to be able to see to find the veins to shoot up heroin?

I got the feeling reading that - that he exaggerates or blends things together. Like the cocaine vs the meth. Bet there's other fibs.

But oh well, he's earned it.

He hates homos. I heard him refer to his obviously gay lead backup singer as a pervert. POS

He's outlived a lot of people and knows all the stories. Too bad he's a hater, tho'. Would love to invite him to a party.

How could Ray Charles see his veins?

He said he had a guy to do it (inject his testicles).

R23 Quincy is an old man now. His mind set is back in the last century. You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Just read the article. I am taking some of what he says with a grain of salt. Always heard he was on the down low and it shows in his overcompensating in the article. Of course, with Frank and Ray you wouldn't dare want them to know you like men.

Who cares what he thinks about Taylor. What is his relationship with Clive Davis and Barry Gordy and other elderly music industry big wigs? The decision makers, not the flavors of the month.

I read his first autobiography and liked it a lot. He doesn't hold back on telling his story. Well worth checking out.

He produced so many great music and musicians, he's an icon.

i hate his guts that he hated the gays.

hell with him!!!

One of Quincy's daughter worked as a secretary/PA for MJ for a while. She called him a chickenhawk, and she was in a position to know.

According to Harvey Levin, Quincy attempted several interventions with MJ, trying to get him to stop having sleepovers with little boys. He told him it was wrong and inappropriate and to stop it. That didn't go over well with MJ.

Walter Yetnikoff, former president of CBS Records, said in his memoir that MJ tried to block Quincy Jones’ Grammy nomination for producing his smash album Thriller. MJ said: “Quincy didn’t really produce the record, I did. He has enough Grammys.” He also wanted Yetnikoff to pressure Quincy to decline his Grammy nominations, threatening to never use him again as a producer if he didn't agree to let MJ take all the credit for 'Thriller'. Yetnikoof told MJ his claim for having done it all himself was bullshit; he'd been in the studio and seen Quincy at work.

MJ really was a special kind of little shit wasn't he?

Besides being an unrepentant pedophile.

Glad he's dead.

If he turned down Marilyn Monroe because her tits were too small, then I turned down a million dollars in small bills because I didn't like the shade of green.

To be fair, Quincy hated “Billie Jean” and fought to keep it off the record. He was a big fan of the drippy ballads that MJ fans ignore.

who the fuck is he kidding? 22 girlfriends? no way he's fucking them.

Years later Quincy Jones said that from working closely closely with Michael Jackson he could tell that Michael did not want to be black.

i've met many like Michael who hate the color of their skin. sad.

does he talk about his diet? vitamins? his mind seems sharp still.

Imagine if these 22 girlfriends actually existed.

“Sasha, why don’t you date?”

“I do, Inga! My man is an 80sonething American! I share him with 21 other women. I’m so happy and fulfilled!”

[quote] Years later Quincy Jones said that from working closely closely with Michael Jackson he could tell that Michael did not want to be black.

[quote] i've met many like Michael who hate the color of their skin. sad.

He later had to back track on those comments after Jackson's autopsy revealed that he did indeed suffer from vitiligo. Jackson's longtime make up artist also explained that early on they covered the lighter spots with brown make-up and the did that for as long as they could.

[quote] The autopsy confirmed what Jackson told people who questioned why his skin tone became lighter in the 1980s. Jackson had "vitiligo, a skin pigmentation disease," Rogers said. "So, some areas of the skin appear light and others appear dark.

R20 read my mind. I'm taking all this with a boulder of salt. Also, if it's true about the girls, I'm not impressed. Having children older than your girlfriends....no.

no but he applied skin lightening creams every night.

[quote] no but he applied skin lightening creams every night.

Do you understand what vitiligo looks like?

What happened to his nose?

he hated his nose, he wanted a pointy nose like a white person.

R41 The actress Angelica Huston worked on a music video with Michael Jackson and she said that up close and personal she could tell that he bleached his face to lighten the color.

[quote] What happened to his nose?

Rhinoplasty which is not uncommon in the entertainment business, but apparently (according to datalounge) black people who have it are self haters. As I understand it. Jackson had problems with scarring (he had suffered from severe acne) after the rhinoplasty. Which lead him to have further surgeries.

[quote] [R41] The actress Angelica Huston worked on a music video with Michael Jackson and she said that up close and personal she could tell that he bleached his face to lighten the color.

Yes no one is disputing that. He covered the lighter patches with darker make up until he could no longer. Because they were too numerous. So then he bleached what was left of the darker areas, to make his skin one color.

R17, you beat me to it. Many civilians and most of the military were on Pervitin, a form of meth,.

[quote]does he talk about his diet? vitamins? his mind seems sharp still.

These are the only times I remember food and health being mentioned:

[quote]As Jones talks, a woman brings some food and puts it on the table. There's various raw vegetables and dips and crackers. There's also a bowl of sorbet, and that's all that Jones touches.

[quote]After I leave—it's shortly before midnight—Quincy Jones will do some Sudoku. “Keeps dementia and Parkinson's away," he says. "I'm fighting that like a warrior. Got to challenge the brain. Use it or lose it."

After his death jars and jars of skin bleaching cream were found in Michael Jackson's bedroom. At the end he and his "children" were rich homeless people. Drowning in debt, they stayed in luxurious homes and hotels, free of cost due to generosity of idiot wealthy foreigners who thought they might one day make a profit from future business dealings with Michael Jackson. Or maybe they just wanted to be involved in some way with a very famous, but very mentally ill celebrity. At any rate, Michael Jackson was living off the largesse of others when he died.

[quote]I am really sick of everybody in Hollywood saying that they were supposed to be at Sharon Tate's the night of the Manson murders. There was a thread on that said Steve McQueen was supposed to have been there that night.

This one I actually believe but only because according to Susan Atkins, McQueen’s name was supposedly on Manson’s “death list.”

I’m not so sure about Jones though. From the article:

[quote]In early 1969, Steve McQueen called Jones and asked him to go and see a rough cut of Bullitt. Jones brought along his hairdresser, a man named Jay Sebring, and after the movie, they made plans for later that evening. “He said, 'I'll meet you at Sharon's, because I've got some stuff for your hair,' " Jones remembers. "I was losing my hair." But Jones didn't go.

I looked it up and Bullitt was released in October 1968.

The author mentions Jones getting dates wrong with some things in the article (and makes notes correcting them) but he didn’t mention this.

He briefly talks about Harvey Weinstein but I don’t understand what he means.

[quote]Judging by how often he mentions it, the documentary Keep On Keepin' On—which follows the friendship between the ailing trumpet player Clark Terry, who once mentored Jones, and a young blind jazz pianist, Justin Kauflin—is one of Jones's recent projects that he takes the most pride in. It was shortlisted as one of the 15 documentaries up for an Oscar nomination, but it progressed no further. This is fresh in his mind, in part because he knows whom he blames for this disappointment.

[quote]”We almost won the Oscar, man. Weinstein double-crossed us with Citizenfour. He had both, but he double-crossed us. He was trying to get the one that he could sell the most, and Ed Snowden was the big topic then. But he double-crossed us, and I don't give a fuck—see what happened to him?"

[quote]I ask him what moral he draws from this turn of events.

[quote]”That's the higher power. That's the way the higher power works. If there's anything I've learned in 84 years, it's that whatever you put out there, it will come back at you. That's for sure."

I don’t want to get into it with the MJ Superfans, but the diagnosis of vitiligo was always suspect.

Yes, that affliction was listed in his long term medical records and is listed on the autopsy. However, remember that his good friend—and rumored father of 2 of the kids—is his longtime dermatologist. It’s very likely that the Derm “diagnosed” him so that he could get easy access to skin bleaching solutions. The mortician did not test for vitiligo since it wouldn’t have been a cause of death.

I don’t care either way, just reminding people of the facts.

Quincy Jones is 84? Damn.

R34 nothing is very likely soley because you have a suspicion.

Even the kid who was allegedly molested by MJ described MJ's penis as spotted.

Spotted Dick, R56?

[quote]he hated his nose, he wanted a pointy nose like a white person.

Many-to-most whites do not have pointy noses.

[quote]Rhinoplasty which is not uncommon in the entertainment business, but apparently (according to datalounge) black people who have it are self haters.

I wonder if when whites get nose jobs, it is because they hate themselves for not being white enough...

R14)

Sorry, this is no #metoo.

These women, if they exist, are on the dole.

Personally, I think Q and MJ did a little something. MJ was too close to Q during the Grammys, and I don't think MJ was trying to block Q from getting nominations or whatever.

That shyt didn't make any sense. It wasn't until long after Thriller that those two drifted apart.

Please, Quincy’s ‘girlfriends’ are with him for the $$ and exposure. He can give them entree into the world of entertainment, with all his connections, plus he’s probably paying them. They are most likely ‘models’ and ‘actresses’ who are happy to jerk old-man dick for a monthly sum.

MJ probably used those skin lighteners on his penis too. Like Marilyn dyed her pubic hair blonde. Narcissists/borderline be crazy.

How did a thread about a Quincy Jones interview become yet another one about sick, dead MIchael Jackson?

R58. Kinda or at least not having the same look as the whites they see in magazines and on tv. Jews and Italians both are open about getting rid of Jewish/Roman noses. Asian women who use skin lightners (most of the nurses I work with) will openly say they don’t want to look Asian. White women who spray tan say hate their Irish/English/Danish skin. People always want what they don’t have.

There’s a new documentary called “Take my nose, please” on Amazon now featuring DL fav Jackie Hoffman. I enjoyed it.

[quote]How did a thread about a Quincy Jones interview become yet another one about sick, dead MIchael Jackson?

I was wondering the same thing, this could have been an interesting thread.

Of course Michael Jackson "did not want to be black." He wanted to be white. He wanted to be a white WOMAN. He wore false eyelashes and lipstick. Eventually he had permanent eyeliner and lip color tattooed on his face. When his hair started thinning he started wearing wigs and towards the end of his life wore one in a shoulder length pageboy style. He bleached his skin a corpse white shade. He wanted to obliterate his African American features; he had his lips thinned and his nose whittled down to nothing. Oh, he wanted to be white, alright. He hated being black.

r34 I think he meant the shape of her breasts and not the size. Just imagine pears the size of a cantaloupes.

We know Quincy likes the boys. He need to be honest about his "friendship" with mj. He is considered a legendary bisexual. Rumored to have hooked up with will smith, ll cool j, mj, prince and other famous men.

[quote]MJ said: “Quincy didn’t really produce the record, I did. He has enough Grammys.”

It's obvious that MJ was the primary producer of his early albums. The sound is distinctly his. Quincy was more of a glorified engineer, who helped MJ realize his vision.

I'm not downplaying Quincy's technical expertise, but the artistic vision and sound of those brilliant albums was all Michael.