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Dave Meegan
Dave Meegan is a record producer. He trained under Trevor Horn and is best known for his work with Marillion. Marillion guitarist Steve Rothery has said he admires Meegan's work so much he considers him to be "a sixth member of the band". He also worked for U2 as an engineer during the sessions for ''The Joshua Tree'' and ''Rattle and Hum''. Meegan's association with Marillion began when he worked as an assistant engineer on their second album, '' Fugazi''. He later returned to produce their albums '' Brave'', a concept album, and '' Afraid of Sunlight'', which were their final two albums released on EMI in the 1990s. He also produced their 2001 album '' Anoraknophobia'' and their 2004 album '' Marbles'', containing the single " You're Gone" which reached number 7 in the UK Singles Chart, the band's highest-charting single since Steve Hogarth replaced original singer Fish in 1989. He also produced ''Slinky,'' by the Milltown Brothers, and ''2 Hell with Common Sense,'' by Powe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Record Producer
A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure.Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as Composer: Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music'' (Cambridge, MA & London, UK: MIT Press, 2005).Richard James Burgess, ''The History of Music Production'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014)pp 12–13Allan Watson, ''Cultural Production in and Beyond the Recording Studio'' (New York: Routledge, 2015)pp 25–27 The record producer, or simply the producer, is likened to film director and art director. The executive producer, on the other hand, enables the recording project through entrepreneurship, and an audio engineer operates the technology. Varying by project, the producer may or may not choose all of the artists. If employing only synthesized or sampled instrumentation, the producer may be the sole artist. Conversely, some artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You're Gone (Marillion Song)
You're Gone is the lead single from Marillion's 13th studio album ''Marbles (album), Marbles'', released in 2004. The song marked a comeback for the band,[ ''Marbles'': Allmusic review] reaching number 7 on the UK Singles Chart and becoming their first top ten hit since 1987's "Incommunicado (song), Incommunicado". It also made number 8 on the Dutch Top 40. Background and release In the studio, singer Steve Hogarth was inspired by a chord sequence generated on a computer by guitarist Steve Rothery, and was able to fit a pre-written lyric around it. Hogarth has said, "It's a simple song. It's about losing a great light in your life and living in the shadow of it, and yet rejoicing in the fact that it was ever there – and it still is there, somewhere." "You're Gone" has been characterised as an address of "romantic disappointment". Although the band's mainstream popularity had dissipated in the late 1990s, they retained a strong cult following. Three versions of the single (two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Record Producers
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Andrew Morris (singer-songwriter)
Andrew Maxwell Morris is an English singer, songwriter and composer. He is also a film and television composer and has composed production music for Cavendish and EMI Production Music that has been placed across the ITV channels, Channel 4 and Sky Sports. His song "100 Reasons" was placed by Vodafone in a television advertising campaign for 4G in March 2014 which ran for approximately one year. His song "Dust" was placed in an ITV advert for Thatchers Cider between 2010 and 2013, the brand's first television advert. His songs "I'll be Gone", "Dust" and "let it go" were both used as theme songs for the hit Russian TV series ''Kitchen'', ''Hotel Eleon'' and ''Grand'', all of which were aired between 2012–present on STS. "Let it go" and "Dust" peaked at 3 and 4 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter Genre Chart in Russia and at number 5 on the iTunes genre chart in Ukraine. "On a Rainbow" peaked at number 5 on the iTunes Genre Chart in Taiwan. His 2014 Album "Well Tread Roads" peaked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Power Of Dreams
Power of Dreams are a Dublin based rock band, built around the vocals and songwriting of Craig Walker. History Power of Dreams released their critically acclaimed first EP ''A Little Piece of God'', on Keith Cullen's London-based Setanta Records in 1989, while Walker was still at school. Following a six-figure bidding war between rival record labels, the band signed a deal with Polydor Records. In December 1989, the British music magazine ''NME'' picked Power of Dreams, along with others such as Carter USM and the Charlatans, as their "stars of tomorrow". Their first album, ''Immigrants, Emigrants and Me'', was released in 1990, receiving glowing reviews worldwide. The album was produced by Ray Shulman and sold well in France, Japan, the UK and Ireland. The band then embarked on a world tour as a supporting act for the Mission, taking in more than 30 countries, including Japan and North America. The follow-up album, '' 2 Hell With Common Sense'', was released two years later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2 Hell With Common Sense
''2 Hell With Common Sense'' is a 1992 album by Power of Dreams. It was released as the follow-up to their debut, ''Immigrants, Emigrants and Me ''Immigrants, Emigrants & Me'' is the debut album by Irish pop/ rock band, Power of Dreams Power of Dreams are a Dublin based rock band, built around the vocals and songwriting of Craig Walker. History Power of Dreams released their crit ...'', and included the singles 'There I Go Again' and 'Slowdown'. Track listing #Raindown #There I Go Again #On and On #She's Gone #Untitled #You Bring Me Flowers #Understand #Slowdown #100 Seconds #Happy Game #Metalscape #Blue Note #Fall #Cancer References Power of Dreams albums 1992 albums Polydor Records albums {{1990s-alt-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milltown Brothers
Milltown Brothers are an English indie band from Colne, Lancashire, England. Career Their first release, in 1989, was the "Coming From The Mill" EP which became single of the week in the ''NME'' magazine, and featured the songs "Roses", "We've Got Time" and "Something On My Mind". The same publication tipped Milltown Brothers for stardom in the 1990s, along with The Hoovers, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, The Charlatans, The Mock Turtles and New Fast Automatic Daffodils. The band's second indie single was "Which Way Should I Jump", with "Silvertown" as the B-side. After the band signed to A&M Records worldwide in 1990, "Which Way Should I Jump?" was re-recorded and entered the UK Singles Chart at number 38, and reached number 10 in the U.S. Billboard Modern Rock chart. An album, called ''Slinky'', followed. It peaked at number 27 in the UK Albums Chart. Q Magazine described it as the "Byrds with hard-edged contemporary pop and upfront vocals". The next single released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fish (singer)
Derek William Dick (born 25 April 1958), better known by his stage name Fish, is a Scottish singer-songwriter and occasional actor. Fish became widely known as the lead singer and lyricist of the neo-progressive rock band Marillion from 1981 until 1988. He released 11 UK Top 40 singles with the band, including the Top Ten singles "Kayleigh", "Lavender" and "Incommunicado", and five Top Ten albums, including a number-one with '' Misplaced Childhood''. In his solo career, Fish has explored contemporary pop and traditional folk, and released a further five Top 40 singles and a Top 10 album. Fish's voice has been described as both "distinct" and a "conflation of Roger Daltrey and Peter Gabriel", David Hepworth's review of Clutching at Straws. ''Q magazine''. July 1987. while his lyrics have been praised as " poetic prose". In 2004, ''Classic Rock'' ranked Fish at number 49 on its list of "The 100 Greatest Frontmen", describing his "theatrical delivery" as "a major factor in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Hogarth
Steve Hogarth (born Ronald Stephen Hoggarth, 14 May 1956 in Kendal, Westmorland) also known as "h", is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Since 1989 he has been the lead singer of the British rock band Marillion, for which he also performs additional keyboards and guitar. Hogarth was formerly a keyboard player and co-lead vocalist with the Europeans and vocalist with How We Live. AllMusic has described Hogarth as having a "unique, expressive voice" with "flexible range and beautiful phrasing". Early life Hogarth was born in Kendal, Westmorland. His father was an engineer in the British Merchant Navy. He was brought up on a council estate in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, from the age of two. As a child he became interested in music, his earliest influences being the Beatles and the Kinks, and taught himself to play piano.Mick Wall ''Pre-Season Friendlies'' ''Kerrang!'' 23 September 1989 Leaving school at the age of eighteen, Hogarth spent three years studyi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling Single (music), singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and music streaming, streaming. The Official Chart, broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and MTV (Official UK Top 40), is the UK music industry's recognised official measure of singles and albums popularity because it is the most comprehensive research panel of its kind, today surveying over 15,000 retailers and digital services daily, capturing 99.9% of all singles consumed in Britain across the week, and over 98% of albums. To be eligible for the chart, a Single (music), single is currently defined by the Official Charts Company (OCC) as either a 'single bundle' having no more than four tracks and not lasting longer than 25 minutes or one digital audio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marbles (album)
''Marbles'' is the 13th studio album from rock band Marillion, released in 2004. Unlike their previous studio album, ''Anoraknophobia'' (2001), which was financed largely by a preorder campaign, the band funded the recording, and it was the publicity campaign that fans financed for the album. Those fans who pre-ordered the album received an exclusive 2-CD "Deluxe Campaign Edition" with a booklet containing the names of everyone who pre-ordered before a certain date. The public release date of the retail single-CD version of the album was 3 May 2004 while a plain 2-CD version was made available from the band's website. A limited (500 copy) edition was released on white multicoloured vinyl by Racket Records on 13 November 2006. In 2017, the 2-CD version became available as a retail edition by the Madfish label, who also released the full album on vinyl for the first time, occupying three LPs. The album did not chart in the UK, due to it being packaged with a couple of stickers, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Horn
Trevor Charles Horn (born 15 July 1949) is an English music producer, label and recording studio owner, musician and composer. He is best known for his production work in the 1980s, and for being one half of the new wave band The Buggles (with Geoff Downes). Horn took up the bass guitar at an early age and taught himself the instrument and to sight-read music. In the 1970s, he worked as a session musician, built his own studio, and wrote and produced singles for various artists. Horn and Downes gained international fame in 1979 with the Buggles' hit single "Video Killed the Radio Star". This was followed by their one-year tenure with the progressive rock band Yes, with Horn becoming their lead singer. In 1981, Horn became a full-time producer, working on commercially successful songs and albums for numerous artists, among them Dollar, ABC, Malcolm McLaren, Yes, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. He ventured into business with his wife Jill Sinclair, purchasing Sarm West Studio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
