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Through Geraldine, Jimmy Miller had a stepson, Steven Miller, a news photographer who spent 25 years working for The New York Times. Geraldine died of breast cancer in 1991, three years before Jimmy Miller's own death in Denver, Colorado, at the age of 52, from liver failure. [3]
Jimmy Miller, independent record producer: born 1942; died Denver, Colorado 22 October 1994. The American-born Jimmy Miller was one of the few record producers who understood the spirit...
Oct 22, 2016 · James “Jimmy” Miller (23 March 1942 – 22 October 1994) was a Brooklyn, New York-born record producer and musician who produced dozens of albums between the mid-1960s and early 1990s, including landmark recordings for Blind Faith, Traffic, the Plasmatics, Motorhead, The World Bank and Primal Scream.
- Jimmy Miller’s first success came with the Spencer Davis Group, which featured a young Steve Winwood. As Miller explained to Nina Antonia from Record Collector, Chris Blackwell (who was both label chief of Island Records and manager to the Spencer Davis Group) “thought it might work for me to come over and do something with Steve and the Spencer Davis Group on ‘Gimme Some Lovin.’
- That’s Miller, not Charlie Watts, drumming on “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” “I felt a rhythm figure that everyone liked, but Charlie didn’t feel it.”
- Miller is the man behind the famous cowbell in “Honky Tonk Women.” Musician Gary Wright, who knew Miller before he went over to the U.K., and later worked with him in the vastly underrated Spooky Tooth, recalls that Miller was a great producer and that “if you’d be doing something and it wasn’t quite happening, he’d go out and pick up a cowbell and go out into the studio and whole thing would turn around.”
- In 1968, he and Bill Wyman displayed some real-life heroism and we’re all the better for it. French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard was at Olympics Studio filming the Stones arranging, rehearsing and recording “Sympathy for the Devil,” for his frustrating film of the same name (originally titled One Plus One).
Feb 1, 2024 · The official cause of death was liver failure, which was likely caused by years of substance abuse and hepatitis. He was buried in a private ceremony in Los Angeles, attended by his family and friends, including Steve Winwood and Mick Jagger. Legacy and Influence.
Nov 28, 2023 · A thunderstorm presaged by the first raindrops of Keith Richards’ guitar and producer Jimmy Miller’s glissando percussion, it’s hard not to lose yourself in the seductive sway.
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Oct 23, 2019 · A tribute to my brother Jimmy Miller, who produced the Rolling Stones’ greatest records and heard the music in everything around him, on the 25th anniversary of his death by Judith Miller
