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James Baldwin. It is a goddamned marvel. Marvin Gaye." When the reporter asked how he knew Brando (who married and divorced multiple women during his lifetime) slept with those men, Jones simply frowned and said, "Come on. But lately, with Jones approaching his 85th birthday, he seems to have gone scorched-earth.

You really should read the thing in full. Bossa nova? A week on from that conversation with Heath, Jones has seemingly opened up a little more. You like Brazilian music? He was the most charming motherfucker you ever met.

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Yoruba music? How do you know that? Nothing is off-limits for Quincy Jones now. Marchese: Is U2 still making good music? Quincy Jones, the legendary producer and record industry mogul whose six-decade-long career has had a greater influence on the state of sound than that of perhaps any other living human, has rarely shied away from letting loose in an interview.

Wrong father, though. Jones: [Marlon] Brando used to go cha-cha dancing with us. He did not give a fuck! Richard Pryor. Jones conducted an infamous interview with Vulture in in which he tore into Michael Jackson, The Beatles and Donald Trump The producer would also reveal that he knew who killed JFK and that Marlon Brando had multiple homosexual affairs with Marvin Gaye, Richard Pryor and James Baldwin Quincy Jones has passed away at the age of Credit.

Marchese: Maybe not the cha-cha. Just three years ago he was telling Noisey about jazz, Clint Eastwood, and the greed of modern music. Read on here. Jones, a man who has met almost every 20th century cultural icon, is in the mood to namedrop here, so every story is seasoned with some seemingly impossible scandal.

Marchese: Wait, really? Jones: [Frowns. Twelve years ago. Marchese: He slept with them? Again, this bounces off of a question about racism. Jones: Yes, sir. Marvin Gaye. He could dance his ass off. In a revealing interview with Vulture, Quincy Jones speaks of Marlon Brando's intimate relationships with Richard Pryor and Marvin Gaye.

Richard Pryor.