Producer and composer Quincy Jones is the legend of legends. He has 27 Grammy awards, which is more than anyone alive. As a child, he ran with gangsters; as a man, he recorded the most successful album ever, Thriller.

Internationally renowned, he has been made a knight of arts and letters by France. Eve Jackson talks to the kingmaker of pop about his love for France, working with Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra and Ray Charles and where he learnt cockney rhyming slang.

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