Quincy Jones To Conduct London Symphony Orchestra For Michael Caine — londonist.com

Quincy Jones at Kensington’s Royal College of Music. Photo by Anca Niculae Legendary producer Quincy Jones, the man behind Michael Jackson’s biggest albums, is due to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall this Wednesday. He is taking part in a tribute to close friend and ‘astral twin’ Michael Caine (they were born in the same year, on the same day, within the same hour — both are now 81). The pair go way back, with Jones scoring Caine’s 1969 movie, The Italian Job, after which the London-born actor took the time to teach Jones how to speak Cockney rhyming slang.

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