« on: October 18, 2018, 10:44:25 am »
'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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