{"id":19949,"date":"2026-05-12T17:47:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=19949"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:47:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:47:35","slug":"legendary-rock-producer-jack-douglas-who-worked-with-aerosmith-and-cheap-trick-dead-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=19949","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Rock Producer JACK DOUGLAS, Who Worked With AEROSMITH And CHEAP TRICK, Dead At 80"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Legendary rock producer\u00a0Jack Douglas<\/strong>\u00a0has died at the age of 80. According to a\u00a0statement<\/a>\u00a0from his family, he passed away peacefully on Monday night, May 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Douglas<\/strong>‘s daughter, Sarah<\/strong>, also confirmed her father’s death to Rolling Stone<\/strong>, adding he died from complications from lymphoma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“He most enjoyed being with his family \u2014 his wife, his four children and five grandchildren \u2014 and he died peacefully, with us surrounding him,” his family said in a statement. “He lived an incredible life and was an amazing storyteller. He was very, very funny and goofy and loved to tell jokes. He loved what he did, and he worked til the very end. We will miss him a lot.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With 40 gold and platinum records and several lifetime achievement awards to his name, Douglas<\/strong> has played an integral role in the creation of the most celebrated music ever crafted. From engineering such masterpieces as John Lennon<\/strong>‘s “Imagine”<\/strong> and engineering\/producing the Lennon<\/strong>\/Yoko Ono Grammy Award<\/strong>-winning “Double Fantasy”<\/strong> to engineering\/producing several of AEROSMITH<\/strong>‘s groundbreaking multi-platinum albums to CHEAP TRICK<\/strong>‘s self-titled debut album and their historic “Live At Budokan”<\/strong>, his work helped set the template for many records to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a\u00a0Record Plant<\/strong>\u00a0staff engineer,\u00a0Douglas<\/strong>\u00a0also forged working relationships with\u00a0Patti Smith<\/strong>,\u00a0BLUE \u00d6YSTER CULT<\/strong>,\u00a0THE NEW YORK DOLLS<\/strong>,\u00a0CHEAP TRICK<\/strong>,\u00a0STARZ<\/strong>\u00a0and most notably\u00a0AEROSMITH<\/strong>.\u00a0Douglas<\/strong>\u00a0engineered and produced many of\u00a0AEROSMITH<\/strong>‘s albums in the 1970s, including\u00a0“Get Your Wings”<\/strong>\u00a0(1974),“Toys In The Attic”<\/strong>\u00a0(1975),“Rocks”<\/strong>\u00a0(1976) and\u00a0“Draw The Line”<\/strong>\u00a0(1977),all of which have gone multi-platinum.\u00a0“Toys In The Attic”<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0“Rocks”<\/strong>\u00a0broke\u00a0AEROSMITH<\/strong>\u00a0into the mainstream and have become highly influential, with both albums ranking among\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/strong>‘s list of the “500 Greatest Albums Of All Time”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jack<\/strong>‘s close relationship with AEROSMITH<\/strong> extended beyond producing and engineering, as Douglas<\/strong> was also a musical contributor to the group when they came up short of material on their projects. For example, Douglas<\/strong> helped write the band’s 1978 hit “Kings And Queens”<\/strong>. He was often given the nickname of “the sixth member” of AEROSMITH<\/strong>, due to his close relationship with the band. Douglas<\/strong> was replaced as producer by the band for the 1979 release “Night In The Ruts”<\/strong>, but Douglas<\/strong> was to again work with the group on 1982’s “Rock In A Hard Place”<\/strong> and several of AEROSMITH<\/strong> guitarist Joe Perry<\/strong>‘s solo albums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For much of the late 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s,\u00a0AEROSMITH<\/strong>\u00a0worked with other producers, but in the mid-2000s, they re-united with\u00a0Douglas<\/strong>\u00a0on the 2004 blues covers album\u00a0“Honkin’ On Bobo”<\/strong>.\u00a0Douglas<\/strong>\u00a0also produced the band’s latest album,\u00a0“Music From Another Dimension!”\u00a0<\/strong>, which came out in November 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Legendary rock producer\u00a0Jack Douglas\u00a0has died at the age of 80. According to a\u00a0statement\u00a0from his family, he passed away peacefully on Monday night, May 11. Douglas‘s daughter, Sarah, also confirmed her father’s death to Rolling Stone, adding he died from complications from lymphoma. “He most enjoyed being with his family \u2014 his wife, his four children and five… Read More »Legendary Rock Producer JACK DOUGLAS, Who Worked With AEROSMITH And CHEAP TRICK, Dead At 80<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19952,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19949\/revisions\/19952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}