Last updated: Friday, July 14, 2006
QUINCY DENIES JACKSON 'SELL-OUT'
Music icon QUINCY JONES has scoffed at enduring criticism he 'sold-out' to produce MICHAEL JACKSON's hit album THRILLER in 1983.
QUINCY JONES
The jazz great has been dogged by the record's huge commercial success because many felt he had ditched his musical roots to manufacture pop.
However, speaking at the BBC Jazz Awards in London last night (13JUL06), the legendary producer slammed the attack as completely unfounded.
He fumed, "I've been accused many times of selling out. Hell, I was playing rhythm + blues before he (Jackson) was born and will do till I die."
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