Rod Temperton un des plus grands compositeurs, responsable d'innombrables hits pour
Michael Jackson (bien sûr) (Off The Wall, Rock With You, Thriller...),
George Benson (Give Me The Night,Love x Love, Turn Out The Lamplight),
Herbie Hancock (Lite Me Up!, The Bomb, Gettin' to the Good Part, The Fun Tracks, Motor Mouth, Give It All Your Heart),
Manhattan Transfer (Spice Of Life & Mistery plus tard repris par
Anita Baker),
Rufus (Masterjam),
Quincy Jones (The Dude Razzamatazz, The Secret Garden),
Mica Paris (You Put a Move on My Heart & plus),
Bob James (Sign Of The Times),
Brothers Johnson (Light Up the Night, You Make Me Wanna Wiggle, All About the Heaven, Stomp),
James Ingram (Yah Mo B There),et pêle mêle
Aretha Franklin, Stephanie Mills, Jeffrey Osborne, Klymaxx, Second Image, Donna Summer, Patti Austin (Baby Come To Me & +), sans oublier son premier groupe
Heatwave (Boogie Nights, Always & Forever, Jitterbuggin, Posin' Til Closin,Groove line, Star Of A Story...)...
C'est une perte énorme pour tous les amoureux des belles mélodies. Il est parti la semaine dernière à Londres puisqu'il était Anglais, mais il était tellement discret qu'on n'apprend son décès qu'aujourd'hui. Il n'avait que 66 ans...
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Iu4YEU7Y4
Michael Jackson - Burn This Disco Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lH_LCHUp6E
Le trio magique... Rod, Quincy, Michael
Manhattan Transfer - Spice Of Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zItRWCCrqms
George Benson - Love X Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr1qEOY ... r1qEOYsaok
Herbie Hancock - Motor Mouth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ-b8F16sPo
Quincy Jones - Razzmatazz (Live at Budokan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoPXOjyBfiE
Rufus & Chaka Khan - Masterjam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttGXpOmtfNo
Brothers Johnson - You Make Me Wanna Wiggle - 4/25/1980 - Capitol Theatre (check out Louis Johnson)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrqVS73Tm7Q
James Ingram & M.McDonald - Yah Mo B There
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJRPMAG_vGA
Heatwave – Boogie Nights (Rod aux claviers!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7LfX9Me2GY
Heatwave - Gangsters Of The Groove
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx04LaahTK8
Cerise sur le gâteau j'ai trouvé cet interview avec Quincy et Rod... Ils parlent de Beat It Thriller etc...
Rod explique à partir de 3'24" comment il a écrit le rap de Vincent Price et l'histoire est absolument hallucinante.
Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton discuss Beat It and Thriller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YFw6nzBHFc
La réaction de Quincy Jones...
"There are simply no words to express how heavy my heart is at the news of the passing of my friend, brother and colleague Rod Temperton. It all starts with the song, and Rod was one of my go to songwriters. He was one of the best, period. Not just for Michael, but for James Ingram, Patti Austin, Rufus and Chaka Khan, Herbie Hancock, and a host of others. His creativity just never stopped. He had an excellent compositional instinct and wrote great music because he had absorbed it to such an extent that it just came straight out of him as if it were second nature. He wrote three songs for Thriller…”Baby Be Mine,” “The Lady in My Life” and “Thriller”; and wrote the Vincent Price intro to “Thriller” in the car on the way from the airport to the studio. To say his talent was insane is an understatement. He was the best friend and brother you could ever work with, and I will forever treasure our friendship and all those decades together in the studio" Quincy Delight Jones, 5 october 2016
R.I.P. Rod Temperton...
