Jeremy Michael Lubbock (4 June 1931 – 29 January 2021) was a Grammy-winning English pianist, conductor, orchestrator, music producer, arranger, composer, and songwriter.
[3][4] Born in Berkshire, he learned piano as a child, and discovered jazz and other American popular music in his teens.
He studied architecture at Oxford University, while also occasionally performing as a jazz pianist and vocalist in clubs in London and Paris, much in the style of Nat King Cole.
In the late 1950s, he made some recordings as a singer and pianist, and started a career in which he toured round the world as a performer and arranger, in which he acquired a special talent.
He notably conducted and arranged the strings for Michael Jackson’s song Billie Jean[5] Lubbock died in Oxfordshire, England, in 2021, aged 89.