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Few people in the music world can match the achievements of Quincy Jones, who died on Sunday at the age of 91. Here are nine facts about Jones.
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*Jones’s work reached the moon. He said that Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, on the Apollo 11 lunar mission in 1969, had told him that he played Frank Sinatra’s 1964 Jones-produced recording of “Fly Me to the Moon” before going to the lunar surface.
* In addition to scoring more than 30 films, Jones composed theme songs for the television shows “Sanford & Son,” “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” and “Ironsides.”
* Jones lived in Paris in the 1950s, studying music theory and composition with Nadia Boulanger, who also taught Aaron Copland, Philip Glass and Virgil Thomson.
* Sinatra not only gave Jones the nickname “Q”, but he also left instructions that after his death, Jones be given his ring bearing the Sinatra family crest of Sicily.
attending their own memorial service
*Jones attended his own memorial service in 1974. That year he suffered a brain aneurysm and wrote in his autobiography that doctors had given him only a 1% chance of surviving surgery. Pessimistic friends stepped forward and arranged a service for him, but within a month Jones was so well that he participated in the service, which included music by Marvin Gaye, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, and Cannonball Adderley.
* In 1986, Jones said that being in the midst of a divorce from actress Peggy Lipton caused him a mental breakdown. He went to Marlon Brando’s private island in Tahiti for a month to recover.
*Jones called Michael Jackson “stinky” during their collaboration but it had nothing to do with smell. When he was working with Jones, Jackson avoided profanity and used the word “stinky” as a substitute.
* In 2013 Jones filed a lawsuit against Jackson’s estate seeking millions of dollars in royalties for music that was used in a documentary and a Cirque du Soleil show after the singer’s death. In 2017, a jury awarded Jones $9.42 million.
* Rapper Tupac Shakur once scolded Jones in a magazine interview for his relationships with white women, including his three wives. Shakur later dated Jones’ daughter Kadida and was engaged to her at the time of his death in 1996.
With inputs from Reuters
