Quincy Jones' 50-Year Life
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•Quincy Jones obituary: From 'street rat' to music mastermind
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Quincy Jones grew up in the shadow of the Great Depression in the 1930s on the South Side of Chicago .
He and his brother were "street rats" and he wanted to be a gangster too.
At the age of 14 , he made friends with Ray Charles , Billie Holiday and Count Basie.
He went on to forge an era-defining partnership with Michael Jackson ; oversee 1985 's We Are the World, one of the biggest-selling songs.
Quincy Jones produced and mentored Jackson for his 1982 album Thriller .
He used his expertise to define the 1980s with a sleek and polished fusion of R&B and pop.
The album earned Jones and Jackson the Grammy Award for producer of the year .
He had further success under his own name with albums The Dude and Back on the Block.
For Jones , social activism went hand-in-hand with his music.
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