Jack Nitzsche

American arranger, producer, songwriter, and Academy Award-winning film score composer.

Born: 22 April 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Died: 25 August 2000 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA (aged 63).

He first came to prominence in the early 1960s as the right-hand-man of producer Phil Spector and went on to work with the Rolling Stones and Neil Young, among others. He also worked extensively in film scores, notably for films such as Performance, The Exorcist and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In 1983, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for co-writing "Up Where We Belong" with his then-wife [a384185]