Speaker 1 (00:01):
Just about everyone in music worshiped the work of the late great Quincy Jones.
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Among them Frank Sinatra, who not only gave the fabled musician and producer the nickname Q, but also bequeathed him a ring bearing the Sinatra family crest when Sinatra died in 1998.
Quincy Jones (00:27):
He had no gray. He'd either love you, or roll over you in a Mack Truck in reverse, there was nothing in between.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Quincy Jones was behind scores for some 30 motion pictures, along with theme songs for TV classics like Ironside, and Sanford and Son.
MUSIC (01:02):
We are the world
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We are the children
Speaker 1 (01:10):
In 1985, he brought the world's biggest stars together for We Are The World, to raise money for famine relief, a feat all the more remarkable considering a decade earlier, he'd suffered two brain aneurysms so severe his doctors gave him only a 1% chance of survival.
MUSIC (01:29):
Hey
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Just a little bit so [inaudible 00:01:33]
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Loving friends had actually scheduled a memorial, a service that some 30 days after being stricken, the recovering Quincy Jones was strong enough to attend. To enjoy songs from guests like Marvin Gaye, Sarah Vaughn, and Ray Charles. Q, winner of 28 Grammy Awards, died last Sunday after living life his way.
Quincy Jones (02:01):
When I look back it feels like 200 lives, it really does. I don't waste any moment of life, I just … whatever's there, I'm interested in it, that's what living's about.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Quincy Jones was 91 years old.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
You've got mail.