Jimmy Miller The music industry, a competitive and prevalent part of society, consists of many different individuals who make a living by creating music and selling it to the public. There are numerous amounts of career positions in the world of music, including producers, managers, agents and attorneys. Jimmy Miller, record producer of band like The Rolling Stones and Primal Scream, will perhaps be one of the most recognized producers in the history of the industry.¹ Jimmy Miller was born in Brookyln, New York, 1942. He was first introduced to the world of music by performing as a drummer for local bands, followed by life on the road as a singer in the early sixties. While doing what he loved, writing music and producing artists in the …show more content…
Miller had been a long time fan of the Stones, and, in 1968, frontman, Mick Jagger, called Jimmy Miller with an interest for him to start producing the band. Miller, jumping right on board, started a six year association with The Rolling Stones, which led to producing some of their biggest hit singles and most satisfactory albums, including Beggars Banquet and ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’.² Jimmy Miller very much “picked the Stones up” and gave them a sense of direction in the time of the chaotic 60s. He brought the right mixture of keeping the Stones under control, with things like negotiation, and also the loose and permissive ways of production in the studio. Miller’s influence and relationship with The Rolling Stones was the same way, and though him and the band had different ideas and goals, the two of them worked diligently together, ultimately creating some of the most iconic hits and performances in music, including ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ and ‘Street Fighting Man’. Miller often contributed to some of the Stones’ songs in his own way, such as the prevalent sound of the cowbell in ‘Honky Tonk Women’. He had an easy going personality and ways fun to work with, but was very involved in the Stones’ problems. His relationship with the band began to fall apart during the making of ‘Goat’s Head Soup’, which was Miller’s last work for the