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Magnum Opus:
We’re a brand new company combining 25 years of award-winning popular music broadcasting and production and we’re passionate about creating high-value programming content and concepts.
Steve Levine:
Culture Club, Honeyz, America, Beach Boys, Deniece Williams and Gary Moore are just a few of the artists this Grammy and Brit award-winning record producer has worked with. A pioneer of digital recording techniques, Steve works closely with new talent and possesses 2 of the best ears in the business, both of them highly valued by Yamaha, Korg and Apple.
Richard Allinson:
25 years of daily music broadcasting have given Richard a fascination with the way records are both made and played. His tremendous experience both in front of and behind the mic has won him a brace of Gold Sony radio awards, an enviable reputation and an incredibly loyal audience.
LINKS:
Steve Levine Discography
BBC Radio2 : The Producers
DK Podcast
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THE RECORD PRODUCERS - TONY VISCONTI
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A COLLECTION OF LEGENDARY PRODUCER TONY VISCONTI'S FINEST WORK - Released July 30 2007.
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Tony Visconti is one of the most important and influential music producers of the last 40 years. Born in Brooklyn in 1944 he developed an early passion for music and after various attempts to make it as an artist he moved to the UK where there were "arcane studio secrets know only to the British." He was soon to be one of the architects of the Glam Rock revolution working with Marc Bolan and T Rex but it is perhaps his work with David Bowie which truly established Visconti as one of the worlds most in demand Record Producers. In producing classics such as Heroes and Low he developed a relationship which exists to this day with production credits on Bowie's most recent records. Along the way he has worked with acts such as Sparks, Wings, The Moody Blues, Thin Lizzy, The Boom Town Rats, Morrissey along with more contemporary bands such as Mercury Rev and The Seahorses.
This collection of 17 tracks from the Visconti archives is a fitting tribute to the scale and scope of his work. The album includes gems such as the French version of Bowie's "Héros" (never before released on CD in the UK), the original Mercury single of the Bowie track "The Prettiest Star", the Bowie/Bolan/Visconti written & recorded "Dib Cochran" track "Oh Baby, the rare Surprise Sisters version of the Beatles track "Got To Get You Into My Life" plus T Rex glam stompers Telegram Sam and Metal Guru along with more recent works such as the Morrissey track "You Have Killed Me" and the Visconti arranged Mercury Rev track "Chains".
Put together with the full cooperation of Visconti the album will be packaged in hard card digi pack with 20 page booklet including rare archive photos of many of the featured artists along with essays and track by track notes written by Visconti expert Neil Myners.
Coming off the back of the recent BBC Radio 2 documentary on Visconti as part of "The Record Producers" series (soon to be re-run in extended form on BBC 6 Music) and following the release of his Autobiography, Visconti's profile is at a recent all time high, evidenced by his May '07 interview on the Jools Holland show.
Tracklisting :
- Héros - David Bowie
- China Girl - Iggy Pop
- Metal Guru - T. Rex
- You Have Killed Me - Morrissey
- Looks Looks Looks - Sparks
- Will You - Hazel O'Connor
- Chains - Mercury Rev
- Oh Baby - Dib Cochran & The Earwigs
- The Prettiest Star - David Bowie
- Flowers In The Rain - The Move
- Sarah - Thin Lizzy
- Love Is The Law - Seahorses
- Band On The Run - Paul McCartney & Wings
- This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us - Sparks (Plagiarism Album Version)
- Got To Get You Into My Life - Surprise Sisters
- Black Country Rock - David Bowie
- Telegram Sam - T. Rex
Further information :
Dawn Bartlett
PR Consultant
dawn.bartlett@emimusic.com - 0207 605 5405
dawn.bartlett@btinternet.com - 07968 845107
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