Quincy Jones, the American music producer, composer and bandleader, died yesterday, Sunday, at the age of 91.
Jones was best known for his work as Michael Jackson's producer. Jackson's album ‘Thriller’, produced by Jones, became the best-selling album in music history (67 million). During his long career, Jones also worked with such legends as Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin. One of his best-known projects was the song We Are The World, which was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie in 1985 and was intended to raise money for the victims of the famine in Ethiopia in 1984/85. We Are The World was the US music industry's response to the song Do They Know It's Christmas by the British band project Band Aid, which had been released a few months earlier.
In his long career, Quincy Jones has won 27 Grammys, two Oscars and 28 Emmys. In 1984, Quincy Jones was honoured with the Special Recognition Award at the MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The laudatory speech was given by friends Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, who appeared on stage together for the first time since the end of the Faces in 1975, in their well-known mischievous and humorous manner.
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