IFS Unlocked: History Box - Quincy Jones Part 1
Top Flight Time Machine
Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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(Rec: 12/11/24) Sub-zero podding, violins, genius discovery, a studio kicking, Jacko Sr’s consideration, and younger girlfriends.
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| 0:00.0 | Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, this is it. |
| 0:05.9 | This is Top Flight Time Machine. |
| 0:07.4 | I am Andy Hot Buddy Dawson, Pow, Pow, Pow. |
| 0:09.7 | I am Sam Nifty Terrani, so what? |
| 0:12.7 | Welcome along, beginning of another history box mini-series, I guess. |
| 0:18.6 | And as a tribute to his sad passing a week or so ago, we're going to look at |
| 0:26.5 | the life and times of Quincy Jones, musician, producer, filmmaker, entrepreneur, genius, |
| 0:37.3 | there's other things that I've missed off there. |
| 0:39.5 | He was everything, basically. |
| 0:40.9 | Quincy Jones had fingers of all the pies. |
| 0:42.8 | Yeah, there's so much more. |
| 0:48.5 | But there's two particular sources that were looking at, |
| 0:53.3 | and these were two interviews that he did in 2018, when he was about 84, I think. |
| 0:59.9 | Just around the time the documentary about him came out on Netflix, I believe. |
| 1:04.4 | I think these were to publicise that. |
| 1:07.2 | And one was in GQ magazine. |
| 1:10.1 | The other one was on the website, |
| 1:12.3 | I think it's just a website, not an actual physical magazine called Vulture. |
| 1:16.3 | And for the GQ one, he later said that his children forced him to apologise for it |
| 1:22.8 | because he was so indiscreet about so many different things throughout the interview. |
| 1:27.9 | So that's where we'll start, I think. |
| 1:31.4 | And we've got notes. |
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