Quincy Jones: U2 is Over the Hill

[jaimearodriguez]

Music Legend Quincy Jones opens up in a new in-depth interview. Knowing the respect he has in the music industry, it holds weight. Not just another 'hater'.


Link: http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/quincy-jones-in-conversation.html

"Is U2 still making good music?
[Shakes head.]

Why not?
I don’t know. I love Bono with all my heart, but there’s too much pressure on the band. He’s doing good work all over the world. Working with him and Bob Geldof on debt reliefJones has a truly admirable record of humanitarian and philanthropic work, going back to his support of Dr. Martin Luther King in the early 1960s. In 1999, Jones, U2 lead singer Bono, and musician-activist Bob Geldof (who spearheaded 1985’s Live Aid charity concerts), traveled to the Vatican to meet with Pope John Paul II, hoping to gain his support in their effort to reduce third-world debt. was one of the greatest things I ever did. It’s up there with “We Are the WorldA charity single written by Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson and co-produced by Quincy Jones, “We Are the World” featured a who’s who of 1980s American pop and rock stars, a collection dubbed USA for Africa. .”

 

[prbiker15]

Reading that interview, the man’s just ranting nowadays.

 

[corianderstem]

That bit just reads to me like he doesn't like their recent output and then talks about Bono's non-U2 work. Big deal.

Interview sounds hilarious, though. Dropping juicy gossip left and right. Like, I'm old now, so fuck it.

 

[david]

He didn’t necessarily say they were over the hill.

 

[jaimearodriguez]

He didn’t necessarily say they were over the hill.

Tried to edit the post title and it wouldnt let me :/

 

[corianderstem]

Considering some of the smack he talks in the interview, U2 got off easy.

 

[BVS]

Poor Eli will have to drop a name.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

I want to read that, because I just saw a headline that he says he dated Ivanka Trump.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

He went out to dinner with Ivanka Trump once, that's dated? I do love what he said about her father, lol.

Quincy likes the word mother f er.

 

[The_acrobat]

Meh, I like SOI and SOE... that's all that matters to me.

 

[Rachel D.]

Poor Eli will have to drop a name.

That’s what I was just thinking, one of Bono’s kids has Q for a middle name after Quincy Jones.

Awkward.

 

[Irvine511]

That was enormous fun.

He’s also saying that U2 is under so much pressure to be great and to be all things to all people and sell a billion tickets that the music is suffering.

Everyone in here says that every day.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

Just finished an episode of South Park and then read that interview. Couldn't get chef's voice out of my head and I don't know what Quincy Jones sounds like, so I read the whole thing as if he were chef.

Quincy Jones tells it like it is.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

For the amount of times he said motherfucker, he sounds nothing like chef. I am disappoint.

 

[An Cat Gav]

What a great interview, I could listen to him talking about pretty much anything all day.

I don't see anything unreasonable about what he said about U2.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

He also says that Bono "makes him" stay in his castle in Ireland because Ireland is so racist.

He's 84 and he only quit drinking two years ago.

 

[Montrose]

He's in full-out, unapologetic 'get off my lawn' mode with modern music. And he's got a lot of valid points, too, and entitled to his take on U2, even if it was no more than a head-shake. His quote on dating Ivanka was just hilarious.

 

[basstrap2418]

I suspect he is not really in the rock camp as far as music. Pop and R&B are more his taste.

 

[superchuk5]

He's talking about Love Me Do, isn't he?

 

[DaveC]

He's talking about Love Me Do, isn't he?

no, quincy jones did not produce "love me do".

 

[Irvine511]

so Marlon Brando -- who would" fuck a mailbox" -- really did have sex with Richard Pryor.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...rlon-brando-were-lovers-pryors-widow-confirms

that's so awesome.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

He made him an offer he couldn't refuse

 

[Irvine511]

“It was the ’70s! Drugs were still good, especially quaaludes,” she told TMZ. "If you did enough cocaine, you’d fuck a radiator and send it flowers in the morning.”

Richard Pryor's Widow Confirms He Slept With Marlon Brando | NewNowNext

 

[Iggy Fizz]

we need to hear more about his experiences w/Hillary and Bill Cosby.

 

[BVS]

I can’t wait till I’m this age.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

That was one of the best interviews I've read in a long time

 

[Rachel D.]

That was a good interview. More people in the entertainment industry need to be like him and just be honest instead of messing around and being fake.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

 

[superchuk5]

no, quincy jones did not produce "love me do".

Of course not; he says Ringo can't play drums and gives a story of a Beatles recording session where they had to sub in another drummer. It's painfully obvious Quincy Jones didn't produce Love Me Do.

 

[DaveC]

He's talking about Love Me Do, isn't he?

Of course not; he says Ringo can't play drums and gives a story of a Beatles recording session where they had to sub in another drummer. It's painfully obvious Quincy Jones didn't produce Love Me Do.

seeing as the name of the actual song is right there in the article where he's talking about this, and there's a direct link to the youtube video, i have faith that with a little bit of effort you'll be able to figure out what song quincy is actually talking about.