'I would sneak into the line and get a little hit': Quincy Jones reveals ... drug dealer was Malcolm

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'I would sneak into the line and get a little hit': Quincy Jones reveals he was hooked on heroin with Ray Charles when he was just 15 - and later toured with a band whose drug dealer was Malcolm X
    *Jones became best friends with Charles, who taught him how to read music
    *Together they played clubs in Seattle, where musicians did heroin in the corner
    *Charles refused to let him join them, but Jones would sneak in so he could try
    *Was hooked for five months until he fell down five flights of stairs while high 
    *He later joined legendary American bandleader Lionel Hampton on tour at 18
    *It was there he found out that Malcolm X was the band's drug dealer in Detroit 

By Anneta Konstantinides For Dailymail.com
Published: 17:27 EDT, 17 October 2018 | Updated: 23:48 EDT, 17 October 2018

...  It was then that he found out that none other than Malcolm X - the future iconic human rights activist - was the band's drug dealer.

'We used to call him "Detroit red", he'd have his Italian suits on,' he recalled with a laugh.   ...

Full story at Daily Mail

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