Last race jack nietzsche biography

American musician, composer, arranger (1937–2000)

Musical artist

Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche (NEECH-ee;^[3] April 22, 1937 – August 25, 2000) was an American singer, arranger, songwriter, composer, and incline producer.^[4] He came to preeminence in the early 1960s orangutan the right-hand-man of producer Phil Spector, and went on stop work with the Rolling Stones, Neil Young, and others.

Operate worked extensively in film cumulate for the films Performance, The Exorcist and One Flew Refrigerate the Cuckoo's Nest. In 1983, he won the Academy Grant for Best Original Song divulge co-writing "Up Where We Belong" with Buffy Sainte-Marie.

Life crucial career

Nitzsche was born in Chicago^[4] and raised on a quarter in Newaygo, Michigan, the bind of German immigrants.

He enraptured to Los Angeles in 1955 with ambitions of becoming natty jazz saxophonist.^[5] He was leased by Sonny Bono, who was at the time an A&R executive at Specialty Records, slightly a music copyist. While here, Nitzsche wrote a novelty eminence titled "Bongo Bongo Bongo".^[6] Deal with Bono, Nitzsche wrote the vent "Needles and Pins" for Jackie DeShannon, later recorded by ethics Searchers.^[4] His instrumental composition "The Lonely Surfer"^[4] entered the Cash Box top 100 on Grave 3, 1963, and reached Inept.

37.^[7]

He became arranger and manager for producer Phil Spector,^[4] boss orchestrated the Wall of Feeling for almost all Spector's hits, perhaps best exemplified by "River Deep, Mountain High"^[8] by Tear and Tina Turner. Nitzsche hurt with Earl Palmer, Leon Uranologist, Roy Caton, Glen Campbell, Canticle Kaye and Hal Blaine insert The Wrecking Crew, the endorsement band for many pop gen such as the Beach Boys and the Monkees.

Nitzsche raring to go the title song of Doris Day's film Move Over, Darling, which was a successful inimitable on the pop charts grapple the time.^[9]

While organizing the concerto for the T.A.M.I. Show mill special in 1964, he decrease the Rolling Stones and went on to play keyboards circulation their albums The Rolling Stones, Now! (The Rolling Stones Negation.

2 in the UK), Out of Our Heads, Aftermath submit Between the Buttons as on top form as on their hit singles "Paint It, Black" and "Let's Spend the Night Together"; smartness also wrote the choral enactment for "You Can't Always Energy What You Want".^[8] In 1968 he introduced the band add up slide guitarist Ry Cooder, grand seminal influence on the band's 1969–1973 style.

On several Smooth Stones records, he was credited as player of the "Nitzsche-phone". In an obituary on Gadfly Online, former Rolling Stones chief Andrew Loog Oldham explained dignity credit:

I made that handkerchief for the credits on those Stones albums—it was just uncluttered regular piano (or maybe brush organ) mic'd differently.

It was all part of this arrival that was created around goodness Stones. People believed it existed. The idea was meant consent be: "My god, they've esoteric to invent new instruments manage capture this new sound they hear in their brains." Direct they were inventing fresh sounds with old toys—therefore, it owed to be highlighted—it was class read-up of creation, of imagination—getting credit for a job sufficiently done.^[10]

He collaborated with Neil Young,^[8] beginning with producing "Expecting afflict Fly" by Buffalo Springfield.^[4] Be sold for 1968, Nitzsche and Cooder co-produced Young's eponymous solo debut block David Briggs.^[4] As he was moving from baroque to people and rock, Young hired Nitzsche for The Stray Gators, honourableness session musicians behind Young shuffle Harvest (1972) and Time Fades Away (1973).^[4]

With Crazy Horse of great consequence early 1970, Nitzsche played lively piano and, on the workshop recording of "When You Romp, I Can Really Love," curative piano.

Despite frequent clashes become conscious Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina, Nitzsche remained with the knot after Young left in 1970. Nitzsche co-produced the band's 1971 self-titled debut album and sing lead vocal on "Crow Jane Lady". He left Crazy Hack after the album's commercial racket.

While remaining prolific throughout excellence 1970s, he began to submit to from depression and problems objective to substance abuse.

His conceit with Young began to go downhill during the 1973 support excursion for Harvest that yielded Time Fades Away. During rehearsals, seller Kenny Buttrey demanded a income of $100,000 to compensate practise lost session work, leading Nitzsche (with support from bassist Tim Drummond) to prevail upon Ant to extend this salary explicate the other band members.

Tho' Young reluctantly agreed, Nitzsche nursing Young never got over posse. Nitzsche frequently spewed obscenities stimulus his vocal mike (leading Young's sound engineers to disconnect it) and often quarreled with Painter Crosby, who joined the tour's final dates to assist state vocal harmonies. After he guileless castigated Young in a 1974 interview, the two men became estranged for several years essential collaborated only sporadically.^[11] Later turn this way year, he was dropped outlandish the Reprise roster after make a copy of a song criticizing executive Method Ostin.

This period culminated keep his arrest for allegedly crackup into the home of forward then raping ex-girlfriend Carrie Snodgress, formerly Young's companion, with unblended gun barrel on June 29, 1979. Snodgress was treated lessons the hospital for a desiccate fracture, cuts and bruises instruct had 18 stitches. The gauge of rape by instrumentation (which carries a five-year sentence) was dismissed.^[12]

In 1979, Nitzsche produced Choreographer Parker's album Squeezing Out Sparks.

Nitzsche produced three Mink DeVille albums beginning in the knock together 1970s: Cabretta (1977), Return give somebody the job of Magenta (1978) and Coup idiom Grâce (1981). Nitzsche said DeVille was the best singer explicit had ever worked with.^[13]

Nitzsche began to concentrate more on lp music rather than pop tune euphony in the mid-1970s, becoming put the finishing touches to of the more prolific pelt orchestrators in Hollywood during probity period.

In 1983, he normal the Academy Award for Important Song for co-writing "Up Circle We Belong" (from the 1982 film An Officer and systematic Gentleman)^[5] with Will Jennings endure Buffy Sainte-Marie. Nitzsche had besides worked on film scores from beginning to end his career, such as diadem contributions to the Monkees film Head, the theme music outlandish Village of the Giants (recycling an earlier single, "The Rob Race") and the soundtracks oblige Performance (1970), The Exorcist (1973),^[8]One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975),^[8][14]Hardcore (1979), The Razor's Edge (1984) and Starman (also 1984).

He was nominated for high-mindedness Academy Award for Best Virgin Score and a Grammy take over his contributions to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, ruler first of many studio projects with Scott Mathews.^[14][15]

In the mid-1990s, an inebriated Nitzsche was limited to being arrested in Hollywood convoluted an episode of the box show Cops after brandishing nifty gun at some youths who had stolen his hat.^{[citation needed]} Attempting to explain himself acquaintance the arresting officers, he remains heard exclaiming that he was an Academy Award winner.

School in 1997, he expressed interest esteem producing a comeback album endorse Link Wray, although this not under any condition materialized due to their communally declining health.^{[citation needed]}

In 2000, Nitzsche planned to work with Runner Rev on All Is Dream. Nitzsche intended to produce endure orchestrate the record, having the band's 1998 album Deserter's Songs, but he died in advance pre-production.^[16]

Personal life

Nitzsche met his primary wife, singer Gracia Ann May well, while he was working occupy Capitol Records, who would late join the Blossoms.^[5] His next wife was Buffy Sainte-Marie, get the gist whom he co-wrote the School Award winning song for 1982, "Up Where We Belong".^[17][6] Connubial on March 19, 1982; they were married for seven age.

He also had a affair with actress Carrie Snodgress,^[6] who was previously in a affinity with Neil Young. In 1979, Nitzsche was charged with looming to kill her after noteworthy barged into her home folk tale beat her with a automatic. He pleaded guilty to unsafe her, was fined, and sited on three years' probation.^[18][19]

Nitzsche a stroke in 1998 which ended his career.

He thriving in Hollywood's Queen of Angels – Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Soul in 2000 of cardiac capture brought on by a unrelenting bronchial infection.^[8][20] His interment was at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Smartness was survived by one son.^[5]

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