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We Are The World’s vocal arranger offers his take on why Prince didn’t appear on the USA for Africa single, and suggests that he may have been “afraid” of Michael Jackson

"This is pure conjecture on my part," says Tom Bahler. "Michael was not afraid of him. Michael wasn't afraid of anybody. He loved everybody”

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"Michael was taking so long and he brought Quincy in to hear it": As Teddy Riley announces his new memoir, Remember The Times, here’s what he said about producing Michael Jackson’s Dangerous album

“I successfully created the New Jack Swing genre 40 years ago so we could have our own generation of music,” says Riley

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‘A sense of Ocean’s 11’: the fascinating true story behind We Are the World

In the Netflix documentary The Greatest Night in Pop, A-listers from Stevie Wonder to Michael Jackson come together for the recording of an iconic song

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“Check your ego at the door”: The story of USA for Africa’s We Are The World (and why Prince and Madonna aren’t on it)

A new Netflix documentary is set to shed light on the making of the US chart’s fastest-selling hit. We look back at the making of song, and ask why two of the biggest stars of the ‘80s weren’t at the party

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The Worst Celeb Red Carpet Moments of All Time

Ranging from awkward to straight-up illegal.

Marie Claire

"I'm like, 'Does he really want me to play him the album or is he just being nice to me, like some son-in-law type thing?”: Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig on having Quincy Jones as a father-in-law

The Vampire Weekend frontman is married to the super-producer's daughter, actress Rashida Jones

Louder

“We only had one night to get this right”: new Netflix doc, The Greatest Night In Pop, to tell the story of the recording of We Are The World

We’re heading back to 1985 to find out how Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan, Quincy Jones and many more came together to form the ultimate supergroup

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I Loved Shug And Celie's Romantic Relationship In 2023's The Color Purple, And The Author Of The Book Explained Why She Did Too

Shug and Celie's romantic relationship is wonderful in 2023's The Color Purple, and the book's author, Alice Walker, loved it.

Cinemablend

32 celebrities you might not realise had famous parents

The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree for these celebrities who were all born into A-list families...

Woman & Home

“We had it in about two takes. The funk was there as soon as we hit it”: Watch Louis 'thunder thumbs' Johnson slap a classic bass solo on the Brothers Johnson’s Stomp!

Johnson used a Music Man StingRay (which he helped design), and strung it with new D’Addario roundwounds

Guitar World

Quincy Jones, Jennifer Hudson and Chance the Rapper co-owners of historic Chicago theater

Iconic music producer Quincy Jones and entertainers Jennifer Hudson and Chance the Rapper are now co-owners of the historic Ramova Theatre on Chicago’s South Side

The Independent UK

Quincy Jones, Jennifer Hudson and Chance the Rapper new owners of Bridgeport’s Ramova Theatre

“My mother always taught us to take care of home first, so to support the rehabilitation of this extraordinary theater with such a rich history in Chicago means more to me than one could imagine,” said Hudson.

Chicago Sun-Times

Miguel Atwood-Ferguson on his giant 50-song album: ‘I wanted to approach it like an experiment’

The composer and arranger has worked with everyone from Ray Charles to Rihanna. Now he’s stepping into the spotlight with a mammoth three and a half hour debut LP … and that’s just volume one

The Guardian - UK

32 Celebrities You Might Not Realize Also Have A Famous Parent

Sometimes, a celebrity can hail from a celebrity - and now, we have thirty-four of them to highlight for you today.

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Artist from New York gives his take on Chicago in new Logan Square mural

Jappy Agoncillo painted it next to a “Welcome to Chicago” mural during the recent Titan Walls festival. A big influence: Watching “The Bear.”

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The Story Behind Will Smith Landing The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, And How Quincy Jones Was Involved

Let's discuss the wild story behind Will Smith landing The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and how Quincy Jones was involved.

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Engineer Bruce Swedien on the making of Michael Jackson's Thriller, track-by-track: "We always recorded with Michael in the dark - he hated light"

RECORDING WEEK 2023: We get a behind-the-scenes look at the recording of the biggest-selling album of all time

The Independent UK

Quincy Jones is State Department's first Peace Through Music Award as part of new diplomacy push

Quincy Jones will receive the inaugural Peace Through Music Award at a launch event for the U.S. Department of State’s new Global Music Diplomacy Initiative

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Was the iconic ‘frog bass’ sound in Michael Jackson’s Thriller created using the “toy-like” Casiotone CT-401?

“The last keyboard you would expect to be found in a major recording session”

The Guardian - UK

Jerry Moss obituary

American record company executive who co-founded the A&M label with the trumpeter Herb Alpert

The Independent UK

Clarence Avant, ‘Godfather of Black Music’ and benefactor of athletes and politicians, dies at 92

Clarence Avant, the manager, entrepreneur, facilitator and adviser who helped launch or guide the careers of Quincy Jones, Bill Withers and many others and came to be known as “The Godfather of Black Music,” has died

Chicago Sun-Times

Clarence Avant, ‘Godfather of Black Music,’ dies at 92

Avant, inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2021, died Sunday at his home in Los Angeles, according to a family statement.

The Guardian - US

Clarence Avant, ‘Godfather of Black music’, dies aged 92

Producer and record executive was, according to Quincy Jones, the ‘silent architect of so many deals it would make your head spin’

The Independent UK

Clarence Avant, ‘Godfather of Black Music' and benefactor of athletes and politicians, dies at 92

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Ash Walker: "Some people say they never put reverb on bass, but they obviously didn’t listen to a lot of dub records"

Joining the dots between King Tubby, Steve Reich and J Dilla, Ash Walker adopted an ‘anti-engineering’ approach to his latest album, Astronaut

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