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Jack Nitzsche was an American arranger, producer, songwriter, and Academy Award-winning film score composer, born on April 22, 1937, in Chicago, Illinois. He passed away on August 25, 2000, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, at the age of 63. Nitzsche was married to singers from 1959 to 1978 and again from 1982 to 1989. He gained prominence in the early 1960s as the right-hand man of producer Phil Spector and later collaborated with notable artists such as the Rolling Stones and Neil Young. Nitzsche also made significant contributions to film scores, working on projects like "Performance," "The Exorcist," and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." In 1983, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Up Where We Belong." Nitzsche was a keyboard player on many mid-1960s albums by The Rolling Stones, where he was credited as the player of the "Nitzsche-phone." This term was coined by former Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham to describe a regular piano or organ mic'd differently, highlighting the innovative sounds being created during that era.

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