In the collection
8 records
Out Of Our Heads
The Rolling Stones, 1965
Big Hits (High Tide And Green Grass)
The Rolling Stones, 1966
Neil Young
Neil Young, 1969
Retrospective - The Best Of Buffalo Springfield
Buffalo Springfield, 1969
Harvest
Neil Young, 1972
Buffalo Springfield
Buffalo Springfield, 1973
Million Dollar Legs
The New Tony Williams Lifetime, 1976
Pack Up The Plantation - Live!
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, 1985
Played with
Neil Young
4 records together
Stephen Stills
3 records together
The Rolling Stones
2 records together
Buffalo Springfield
2 records together
Bill Wyman
2 records together
Charlie Watts
2 records together
Brian Jones
2 records together
Keith Richards
2 records together
Ian Stewart
2 records together
Andrew Loog Oldham
2 records together
Mick Jagger
2 records together
Jagger-Richards
2 records together
About
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).
Married to singers (1959-1978) and (1982-1989)
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 “Up Where We Belong”.
The Nitzsche-phone
Nitzsche was a keyboard player on many mid-1960s albums by The Rolling Stones. On several, he was also credited as the player of the “Nitzsche-phone”. In an obituary on Gadfly Online, former Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham explained the credit:
“ I made that up for the credits on those Stones albums—it was just a regular piano (or maybe an organ) mic’d differently. It was all part of this package that was created around the Stones. People believed it existed. The idea was meant to be: “My god, they’ve had to invent new instruments to capture this new sound they hear in their brains.” And they were inventing fresh sounds with old toys—therefore, it deserved to be highlighted—it was the read-up of creation, of imagination—getting credit for a job well done.”