Jack Douglas, one of the hardest working rock producers of the 1970s and 1980s has died at 80. Douglas’ family announced his death in a Facebook post, noting that he died on Monday (May 11); Douglas’ daughter, Sarah, told Rolling Stone her father’s death was due to complications from lymphoma. “As many of you who follow him know, he produced great music, and lived a colorful life. We know that he touched many of your lives; we would love to hear more about that in the comments. He will be missed,” they wrote.
Indeed, Douglas carved a wide, impressive swath through rock in his prime, working on a number of Aerosmith’s most beloved, multi-platinum 1970s LPs, including 1974’s Get Your Wings, 1975’s Toys in the Attic (which featured signature hits “Sweet Emotion” and “Walk This Way”) and 1976’s Rocks, as well as 1980s John Lennon and Yoko Ono Grammy-winning album Double Fantasy and Patti Smith’s 1976 album Radio Ethiopia.
Born in the Bronx on Nov. 6, 1945, Douglas began his music career as a folk musician in the early 1960s and spent time as a songwriter working on Robert F. Kennedy’s 1964 senatorial campaign before pivoting to studio work at the then-new Record Plant in Manhattan. He quickly rose from janitor to working behind the boards and engineering albums by everyone from the New York Dolls to Alice Cooper, Miles Davis, Montrose, Mountain and the Who.
Douglas becoming friendly with former Beatle John Lennon during the recording of his Imagine solo album in 1971, a relationship that would bear fruit a decade later in 1980 when Douglas produced Lennon and wife Yoko Ono’s fifth album, Double Fantasy, the former Fab’s final album before his murder in December of that year.
In addition to his long relationship with Aerosmith, Douglas also had a yearslong association with Cheap Trick, helming some of their most beloved albums, including their 1977 debut, their landmark 1978 Live At Budokan album (and Budokan II), as well as 1980s Found All the Parts, 1985’s Standing on the Edge, 2003’s Special One and 2006’s Rockford.
Throughout the 1970s and 80s, Douglas worked on albums by Blue Öyster Cult, Starz, the Joe Perry Project, Alice Cooper, The Knack, Graham Parker and, infamously, the Bee Gees/Peter Frampton soundtrack to the disastrous 1978 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band movie musical.
Douglas kept working throughout the 80s and into the new millennium, helming projects by Zebra, Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash’s side project, Snake Pit, as well as grunge-adjacent bands Local H and Clutch. He also reunited with Aerosmith in 2004 for their blues covers album, Honkin’ on Bobo, and then again on their most recent album of originals, 2012’s Music From Another Dimension!
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