Quincy Jones: True or False? His Wild Life and the Stories Behind His Wildest Claims
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What shocking claims did Quincy Jones make about Michael Jackson, the Beatles, and Frank Sinatra?
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This is the story about arguably the greatest music producer ever. A man who said, all I ever did was tell the truth. But a man who clearly said some outrageous things things about the Beatles, about Michael Jackson, about Frank Sinatra. Claims that amount to musical crimes, fraud, theft, and murder. a man who, despite his statements about these musicians, made some of the greatest music ever put on tape. I'm talking about Quincy Jones. Yes, a man who made great music. Unlike that music I played for you at the top of the show. That wasn't great music. That was a preset loop for my Melotron called after P and before RMK1. I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to God's Plan by Drake. And why would I play you that specific slice of
I'm sorry, I find Drake to be so damn boring that I can't even find an interesting way to insult him. Cheese, could I afford it? Because that was the number one song in America on January twenty ninth, twenty eighteen. And that was the day Quincy Jones started talking to reporters at his advanced age and making outrageous claims nobody asked for, but that nearly everybody wanted to hear. On this episode, the Beatles as fraudsters, Michael Jackson as Thief. Frank Sinatra's front seat at the assassination, and the loose lips and unbelievable life of Quincy Jones. I'm Jake Brennan, and this is Disgraceland.
During the last years of his life, Quincy Jones, arguably the greatest music producer of all time, made some truly outrageous claims, some involving crimes, musical and otherwise. He said that Michael Jackson stole a lot of songs and that the Beatles didn't play their instruments, and that Frank Sinatra was the reason that he knew who killed Kennedy. Quincy Jones, age 84, when he gave these interviews to GQ in New York magazine, was clearly out of fucks to give. He also told interviewers that he once dated Ivanka Trump, a woman 48 years younger than him, and more outrageously, the president's daughter. He also spilled the tea about Marlon Brando's sexual appetite, that he slept with Richard Pryor and Marvin Gaye.
And that Brando would quote unquote fuck a mailbox. These claims, regardless of whether they're true or not, are hysterical, especially when you hear Quincy or Q, as the world universally knows him, tell these stories in his unmistakable voice. These stories, though, they're not directly related to figures from music history, aside from Q's involvement, so I'm less interested in them than I am the claims about Sinatra, the Beetle. Michael Jackson. It should be noted that after Quincy Jones made this claim about Michael Jackson that he was a musical thief, that the Jackson family pushed back hard. Joe Jackson said that Quincy was jealous of Michael's talent, and an anonymous member of the Jackson clan claimed that Quincy Jones had been in the first stages of dementia when he said these things.
Quincy Jones was a lot of things. He lifted himself up from a childhood of poverty through an oftentimes violent and racist music industry to create music that not only sounded like what America really sounded like, but that also changed the way America sounded. More on that later. And Quincy Jones became, as I said before, arguably the greatest music producer of all time. A music producer who said, All I ever did was tell the truth. Was he lying? About Michael? About the Beatles? About Sinatra? Well Before we answer that. We must first look at who Quincy Jones was. Quincy Bellite Jones Jr. was born on the south side of Chicago, and he grew up in a neighborhood so violent that it was known as the Bucket of Blood.
His family moved to Seattle, where Quincy began his music career at the age of 12, playing trumpet and learning to write arrangements for jazz orchestras. This is where he later met and became friends with 16 year old Ray Charles, backed Billy Hall.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What shocking claims did Quincy Jones make about Michael Jackson, the Beatles, and Frank Sinatra?
0:01–5:40
2
How did Quincy Jones rise from a violent Chicago childhood to become a legendary producer?
5:40–13:16
3
How did Quincy Jones change the sound of American film scores?
13:16–16:35
4
How did Frank Sinatra and the mob influence Quincy Jones’s life in Las Vegas?
16:35–20:32
5
Did Michael Jackson steal melodies for “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” and “Billie Jean”?
20:32–26:11
6
Why did Quincy Jones call the Beatles “non-playing” musicians?
26:11–33:44
7
Did Bernard Purdie play drums on early Beatles recordings instead of Ringo Starr?
33:44–39:46
8
Was Quincy Jones telling the truth about Michael Jackson, the Beatles, and who killed JFK?
39:46–49:50
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