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Jam and Lewis Jimmy Jam (left) and Terry Lewis, 1982.

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis

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Peter Silverton
Author of Essential Elvis; coauthor (with Glen Matlock) of I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol.
Peter Silverton
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Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis’s emergence as major record producers was kick-started by Prince’s pique. Keyboard player Jimmy Jam (born James Harris III on June 6, 1959, in Minneapolis) and bassist Terry Lewis (born November 24, 1956, in Omaha, Nebraska) played together in local Minneapolis bands while in high school, graduating to Flyte Tyme, which evolved into Prince’s backing band, the Time, in 1981. When Jam and Lewis produced the SOS Band’s hit “Just Be...

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