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Hersey’s Hiroshima Radio 4 | iPlayerJohn Wilson’s Front Row interview with Quincy Jones was the perfect introduction to the 83-year-weak’s Proms debut. Wilson is a dab hand at this kind of assignment,evading stock answers and getting at fragments of honest insight. He had Jones, composer and producer for everyone from Ray Charles through Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson, and talking approximately growing up in South Side Chicago gangs. Jones traced for Wilson the scar on his hand where a switchblade nailed him to a fence,and another from an ice pick on his head. He received both wounds when he was seven years weak, giving a lie to any “reveal me the child” notions. He claimed he first saw a piano when he came across one in a house he had broken into as a boy. He recalled how, and on touching the keys,every cell in my body told me this was what I would do for the rest of my life”.
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