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Rashida Jones Reflects On Growing Up With Famous Parents

Rashida Jones reflects on her upbringing in a famous family, delayed success, and navigating fame in her 30s in Hollywood.

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Rashida Jones and Ezra Koenig not legally married but are in the ‘eyes of god’

‘I’m sure we’ll get married at some point, but we basically are,’ Jones says

The Independent UK

‘You get the sense that anything could happen’: Director Oliver Murray on the magic of Montreux Jazz Festival

Exclusive: Director behind the three-part 2023 documentary explains what draws so many musicians to the legendary Swiss festival, as the 2024 edition gets underway this weekend

The Independent UK

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“I’ll see you there!”: George Benson announces 4-day “musical extravaganza” Breezin' With The Stars, with gigs and workshops featuring Tommy Emmanuel, Lee Ritenour, Steve Lukather and more

Hosted in Phoeniz, AZ, in partnership with Ibanez, Benson's Breezin' With The Stars features concerts, signing sessions, stories from the stars, and Rick Beato as master of ceremonies

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Quincy Jones To Receive Honorary Oscar At Governors Awards

Quincy Jones and other industry luminaries to be honored at the Academy's Governors Awards for their contributions to film and humanitarian endeavors.

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Quincy Jones, Richard Curtis, Juliet Taylor and Bond producers will get honorary Oscars

Quincy Jones, casting director Juliet Taylor, filmmaker Richard Curtis and James Bond producers Michael G

The Independent UK

“It was midnight. Quincy Jones said, ‘Ritenour, this is Q. You gotta get down here right now. We gotta fix George's solo’”: Lee Ritenour sets the record straight on fixing George Benson’s Give Me the Night solo

Quincy Jones made Ritenour swear never to tell George Benson about the incident

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“Quincy said, ‘Ritenour, this is Q. You gotta get down here right now!’”: Lee Ritenour reveals all about his top secret mission to save George Benson’s Give Me The Night solo

After an unfortunate recording accident in the analogue tape days, Quincy Jones needed an 11th hour rescue job and duly made a late night call to the only player who could help

MusicRadar

Henry Mancini tribute album features Quincy Jones conducting John Williams and Herbie Hancock on the Peter Gunn theme, and Lizzo trading flute licks with James Galway on the Pink Panther

Both recordings are set to appear on a tribute album celebrating Mancini’s 100th birthday

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

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

MusicRadar

From Thriller to Bad, Michael Jackson's 15 greatest songs on the London debut of MJ The Musical

We pick and rank some of our favourite songs by the so-called King of Pop

Evening Standard

Will Smith Honors Quincy Jones With Heartfelt Instagram Tribute

Will Smith's heartfelt tribute to Quincy Jones on Instagram showcases their enduring friendship through nostalgic snapshots and a touching caption.

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Rashida Jones Celebrates 48Th Birthday With Quincy Jones On Instagram

Rashida Jones celebrates her father Quincy Jones' influence through a documentary and social media posts.

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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

The Guardian - US

‘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

MusicRadar

“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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"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

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“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.

Woman & Home

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...

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“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

The Independent UK

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

Chicago Sun-Times

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.

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