Photo Credit: Jimmy Steinfeldt (Jack Douglas)
Reservoir Media Inc. has announced it has acquired the producer royalties to the catalog of Grammy-winning American producer Jack Douglas. The acquisition includes hits by Aerosmith and Cheap Trick.
Douglas’ catalog is a cornerstone of rock music history, with numerous multi-Platinum selling records to his name. He has been recognized with several lifetime achievement awards, including for the LA Music Hall of Fame, the Sarasota Film Festival, and the Institute of Audio Research.
Born in the Bronx, New York City, Douglas began his music career at the Institute of Audio Research before engineering and/or producing on projects by Miles Davis, Alice Cooper, Cheap Trick, Patti Smith, Supertramp, and Montrose, among others. In 1971, Douglas helped engineer The Who’s Who’s Next album, and was one of the engineers on John Lennon’s second solo album, Imagine, featuring the title track, “Imagine.” Douglas also worked with the three other Beatles throughout the course of his career.
Jack Douglas spent the majority of the 1970s focused on production, playing a crucial role in many of Aerosmith’s most successful albums. He produced 3x-Platinum Get Your Wings (1974), 9x-Platinum Toys in the Attic (1975), 4x-Platinum Rocks (1976), and 2x-Platinum Draw the Line (1977). Both Toys in the Attic and Rocks feature on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
In the 1980s, Douglas collaborated with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, producing the duo’s Double Fantasy and the single “(Just Like) Starting Over,” as well as Yoko Ono’s “Walking on Thin Ice.” In the mid-2000s, Douglas reunited with Aerosmith to work on additional projects with the group, including 2004’s Gold-selling Honkin’ on Bobo and 2012’s Music from Another Dimension!. Today, he is busy scoring films and running his own label.
“Jack Douglas is a legendary producer who crafted some of the most iconic and sonically powerful rock records over the past 50 years,” says Reservoir President & Chief Operating Officer Rell Lafargue. “We are honored to now represent titles from his extraordinary body of work, which will continue to be played and revered for the next 50 and beyond. Jack’s music now joining Reservoir, we’re further solidifying our representation in iconic rock.”
