Bill Price (3 September 1944 – 22 December 2016) was an English record producer and audio engineer who worked with

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, The Jesus and Mary Chain,

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, The Waterboys, Mott the Hoople and Simon Townshend (

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's younger brother). He was chief engineer on the first three solo albums by

, including ''

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'' and '' White City: A Novel''. He contributed to documentaries about The Clash such as ''

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''. Price started his engineering career in the mid-1960s when he was an engineer at Decca Studios in West Hampstead, recording artists such as Tom Jones. One of the final recordings he helped engineer at Decca before departing to AIR Studios in November 1969 was the multi-million-selling " Reflections of My Life" by The Marmalade. Price helped build AIR Studios in Oxford Street, where he spent many years. During that time he engineered some of the major albums of the 1970s and 1980s

Sex Pistols

In 1976, he was asked by

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to produce the

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' sessions that became the ''

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'' album. His work with the band led to one of his most curious album credits, alongside Chris Thomas. Price explained: During the media furore over the Sex Pistol's single '' God Save the Queen'', Price, Thomas, and Pistols' vocalist Johnny Rotten were subject to a razor attack outside a pub in Highbury, London.

Other work

Price also mixed Nilsson's " Without You". He was the chief engineer/manager at Wessex Studios, the London studio where the Clash and the Sex Pistols recorded much of their work. More recently he worked again with Mick Jones in his band

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, and mixed

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' albums ''

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'' and ''

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''.

References

1944 births 2016 deaths English audio engineers English record producers 20th-century British businesspeople {{UK-record-producer-stub