Adventures in Modern Recording: From ABC to ZTT

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Horn co-produced Mike Oldfield's 1992 album Tubular Bells II alongside Oldfield and Tom Newman. Oldfield was a fan of the Buggles song "Video Killed The Radio Star" and described Horn as like being a judge in a courtroom when presenting some of his ideas for the album, to which Horn would either nod or shake his head. This, according to Oldfield, gave him a kind of a filter for which ideas worked. Mettler, Mike (17 June 2016). "Gary Barlow didn't just meet his '80s heroes, he made a retro album with them". Digital Trends . Retrieved 4 December 2021. Chris Welch (2009). Close to the Edge: The Story of Yes. Omnibus Press. p.261. ISBN 9780857120427 . Retrieved 21 January 2018. Relax? I don't do it - Articles - Zang Tuum Tumb and all that". Zttaat.com . Retrieved 8 July 2018. The Robot Sings - new musical from Video Killed The Radio Star duo in development". Londontheatre.co.uk. 1 March 2017 . Retrieved 8 July 2018.

This play-by-play memoir transports readers into the heart of the studio to witness the making of some of music’s most memorable moments, from Buggles’ ground-breaking ’Video Killed the Radio Star’ to Band Aid’s perennial ’Do They Know It’s Christmas?’, via hits such as ’Relax’, ’Poison Arrow’, ’Owner of a Lonely Heart’ and ’Crazy’. The Rightful Heir?". Q Magazine No. 48. September 1990. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011 . Retrieved 23 July 2011. Horn’s father worked in a dairy, and was a semi-professional musician in dance bands. It was the remnants of that scene that gave Horn his entry into music, the future architect of 1980s electropop spending over 10 years as a jobbing musician around the ballrooms and supper clubs of Britain. Not that it holds much affection for him. “You could go insane with boredom playing those old songs,” he says. Pete Selby, publishing director, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Andrew Gordon at David Higham Associates for publication in October 2022. By then, Horn was one of the biggest record producers in the world, although his route to that title was peculiar as well. After Yes fired him as their singer, he elected to work with Dollar, an implausibly drippy middle-of-the-road pop duo who may have been one of the few artists considered even less hip in 1981 than his former employers. They had, in Horn’s memorable phrase, “something of the cruise ship about them”. Anyone else might have run a mile, but Horn saw a conceptual opportunity. “I loved The Man Machine by Kraftwerk, this idea of a band that were totally techno. And I thought: wouldn’t it be great to mix that with [perennially unfashionable British MOR crooner] Vince Hill?”Produced by Trevor Horn: A Concert for the Prince's Trust – Live at Wembley Arena London 2004 (DVD, 2005) Beaumont-Thomas, Ben; Petridis, Alexis; Snapes, Laura (5 June 2020). "The 100 greatest UK No 1s: 100-1". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 18 April 2023. The success of the Buggles led to Downes and Horn joining Yes for the Drama album and the associated tour in 1980. Downes was the first member of the band to have completed a music degree. I was born in Durham, one of four children – first boy, second child. We lived in the middle of a valley next to a huge dairy where my father worked as an engineer. My father, John, was 33 and my mother, Elizabeth, was 20 when they got married. My dad’s sister was a headmistress and had actually taught my mother. My father’s family somewhat disowned him because my mother came from a mining family and her father was a coal cutter. Growing up, I saw my mother’s family all the time but I don’t think I saw a Horn once for 15 years.

All in all, we worked on the album for about six weeks in London. It proved to be expensive, though, partly because I flew to New York on Concorde to master it, partly because we had a horn section and string section on it. I think it’s fair to say that I got carried away. Trevor Horn Frankie Goes To Hollywood interview". Classic Pop. 9 October 2022 . Retrieved 24 April 2023. a b c d Peel, Ian (March 2005). "Trevor Horn: 25 Years of Hits". Sound on Sound . Retrieved 30 May 2018. On 31 March 2011, he was confirmed as participating in the recording of the new Yes album Fly from Here (2011), reuniting with them formally for the first time since 1980 and rejoining the band for an upcoming tour. [9] In May 2011, he rejoined Yes as the full-time keyboard player. In 2012, the band appointed a replacement vocalist, Jon Davison. The new Yes album, Heaven & Earth was released in July 2014. Bonus material includes: Documentary; "Frankie Say Reform" special; juke box facility; Dolby Digital 5.1 mix concert only [8] [9]

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a b c d e f g h i j k l Healy, Pat (29 March 2018). "Podcast Episode Nineteen: Trevor Horn". Berklee Online . Retrieved 31 May 2018. In 1981, Horn became a full-time producer, working on successful songs and albums for acts including Dollar, ABC, Malcolm McLaren, Yes, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. He ventured into business with his wife Jill Sinclair, purchasing Sarm West Studios and establishing the publishers Perfect Songs and their own label, ZTT Records. In the following year, Horn co-formed the electronic group Art of Noise. He achieved hits in the following decades with Seal and t.A.T.u. He has performed with the supergroup Producers, later known as the Trevor Horn Band, since 2006. Montague, A (31 August 2007). "The band with 200 hits behind them". The Jewish Chronicle. Archived from the original on 24 February 2014 . Retrieved 21 February 2014. Musicians and producers including Gary Barlow, DJ Shadow and Nigel Godrich cite Horn as an influence. [67] [68] [69] Personal life [ edit ]

Horn is visibly overcome with emotion talking about Sinclair. “Jill was funny, she was a great manager, she had more balls than most people I know. And she was… just… it’s very hard… still.” He lapses into silence. In the mid-1970s, Downes was a member of She's French, playing a Fender Rhodes electric piano and a Hammond organ. The band also included Jamie West-Oram on guitar and Hoagy Davies, the son of Rupert Davies, on Minimoog synthesizer. He played keyboards for a theatre production of The Wombles in 1975. [5] He played in Gary Boyle's band in 1977. [6] Horn produced the 2003 Belle and Sebastian album Dear Catastrophe Waitress. Horn, known for using electronic equipment to transform music, was seen as a surprising choice for the band, who were described by the Guardian as "the last living purveyors of arts-and-crafts indie values". [46] Chromium – Star to Star (1979) (Horn: producer and songwriter, Geoff Downes: keyboards and songwriter, Hans Zimmer: electronics) In 1980, Horn married the music executive Jill Sinclair, who became his manager. [31] Sinclair told him that as an artist he would always be "second division", but if he pursued production he would become the best in the world. [14] In the 1980s, Horn incorporated samples into pop music using a Fairlight CMI synthesiser.This is the discography of English record producer, singer, and bassist Trevor Horn. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Solo and related [ edit ] When I ask if I can use the toilet in Trevor Horn’s house, he shows me the way there himself. “Bob Hoskins’ old thunderbox,” he smiles as he opens the door. “He used to sit there and read his scripts, apparently.”