Bernard Alfred ("Jack") Nitzsche (Chicago, April 22, 1937 – Hollywood, August 25, 2000) was an integral presence in the history of popular music in the 20th century. In his late teens he moved from Chicago to Los Angeles, with ambitions of becoming a jazz saxophonist. He found work copying musical scores, where he met Sonny Bono, with whom he wrote the song 'Needles and Pins' for Jackie DeShannon. His own instrumental composition 'The Lonely Surfer' became a minor hit. Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... ... August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 128 days remaining. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... A saxophonist is a musician who plays the saxophone. ... Sonny Bono Salvatore Phillip Sonny Bono (February 16, 1935 – January 5, 1998) was an American record producer, singer, actor, and politician whose career spanned over three decades. ...

He eventually became arranger and conductor for the influential producer Phil Spector, and orchestrated the ambitious Wall of Sound for the song 'River Deep, Mountain High' by Ike and Tina Turner. Working closely with West Coast session musicians such as Leon Russell, Glen Campbell, Carol Kaye, and Hal Blaine, they created the backing music for numerous sixties pop recordings by various artists such as The Monkees. The Phil Spector anthology album, Back to Mono. ... Wall of Sound is a phrase used to describe the effect created by the music production techniques of legendary record producer Phil Spector. ... Tina Turner on the cover of her 1991 album Simply the Best Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939) is an African American R&B, pop, rock and soul singer, Buddhist and occasional actress probably best known for her scorching performances with the Ike and Tina Turner... Leon Russell A Young Leon Russell Leon Russell (born Claude Russell Bridges on April 2, 1942 in Lawton, Oklahoma) is a singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist. ... Glen Campbell, December 2004 This article is about the singer. ... Carol Kaye is an American electric bass player reknowned as a prolific Los Angeles based session musician in the 1950s and 1960s. ... Hal Blaine (born Harold Simon Belsky on February 5, 1929 in Holyoke, Massachusetts) is an American drummer and session musician. ... The Monkees in 1967 (left to right): Michael Nesmith, Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork The Monkees were a four-man musical band created to be the stars of an American television series of the same name, which ran on NBC from 1966 to 1968. ...

While organizing the music for the T.A.M.I. Show television special in 1964, he met The Rolling Stones, and went on to contribute the keyboard textures to their mid-sixties hits such as 'Paint It Black', and the choral arrangements for 'You Can't Always Get What You Want'. The Rolling Stones are an English band that rose to prominence during the British Invasion of the 1960s. ...

His masterpiece was the shimmering unearthly orchestration for the Neil Young composition 'Expecting to Fly' created for Buffalo Springfield's second album, released in 1967. He then collaborated with Young on some of his most commercially successful solo recordings such as 'Harvest', as well as the less successful but influential Tonight's The Night album. Neil Percival Kenneth Robert Ragland Young (born November 12, 1945) is a singer/songwriter who grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba. ... Buffalo Springfield album cover Buffalo Springfield was a short-lived yet highly original and influential folk-rock group that served as a springboard for the careers of Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and Jim Messina. ... Harvest is an album by Neil Young, which was the best-selling album of 1972. ...

In 1983, he married Canadian/Native American folk singer/songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. 7 Buffy Sainte-Marie Buffy Sainte-Marie (born February 20, 1941) is a Canadian First Nations musician, composer, visual artist, educator and social activist. ...

While prolific and hard working throughout the seventies, he suffered increasingly from depression and substance abuse problems, culminating in his arrest for a violent assault on actress Carrie Snodgress in 1979, whom he was dating. Carrie Snodgress (October 27, 1946 - April 1, 2004, Los Angeles, California) was an American actress. ...

Nitzsche had also worked on film scores throughout his career, such as the distinctive soundtracks for 'The Exorcist' and 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'. In the eighties he began to concentrate more on film music rather than pop music, and became one of the most prolific film orchestrators in Hollywood at the time, winning an Academy Award for 'An Officer and A Gentleman'. The Exorcist is a 1973 film, based on the novel by William Peter Blatty first published in 1971. ... One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest is a 1975 film directed by Miloš Forman. ... An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 film which tells the story of a United States Navy aviation Officer Candidate who comes into conflict with the Gunnery Sergeant who trains him. ...

His intensive output declined somewhat in the nineties. He died in Los Angeles in the year 2000 of a respiratory illness.

Jack Nitzsche was mythologized as 'The Dark Prince' in Jimmy McDonough's biography of Neil Young, 'Shakey'.