Tony Cox is a British
record producer
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and
arranger. As such he was influential in late 1960s and 1970s
folk rock
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developments and the fledgling
progressive rock
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scene, and has since worked primarily as a composer and orchestrator.
Career
He entered the music business as a performer in 1966, and as a duo with Douglas MacRae-Brown released ''The Young Idea'' LP in 1967, and had a UK top ten hit single with a cover version of the
Lennon-McCartney song "
With a Little Help from My Friends". (The album was re-issued on CD in 2009 with previously unreleased tracks.) He continued performing in the studio with various acts he produced such as
Trees and
Mick Softley. He was an early adopter of the
EMS VCS 3 synthesizer
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and in 1971 played on the
Spirogyra album ''St. Radigunds'', and
Mike Heron's album ''Smiling Men With Bad Reputations''. In 1972 he played piano with
The Bunch
The Bunch were a British folk rock band, which came together in 1971 to record their one off album, '' Rock On''.
Formation
The Bunch was put together by Trevor Lucas in late 1971, close to a year after his former band, Fotheringay, had disban ...
alongside
Sandy Denny on vocals, and in 1976 he played synth on
Martin Carthy's ''Crown Of Horn'' LP.
In 1974 he founded
Sawmills Studios in Cornwall, one of the first residential recording studios in the UK.
In 1978 he married the singer-songwriter
Lesley Duncan,
[Interview with Lesley Duncan, at lesleyduncan.net Retrieved 6 November 2016] and produced her single "The Magic's Fine". In 1979 produced and arranged the charity single "Sing Children Sing" for the
International Year of the Child.
In 1982 he produced Duncan's cover version of
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career sp ...
's '
Masters of War' single.
In 1996 they moved to the
Isle of Mull, Scotland.
[Tony Cox]
FATTO* – a little about what I’ve done
Retrieved 8 November 2017
From 1988 to 1990 he worked for
Andrew Lloyd Webber's
Really Useful Group as
music supervisor
A music supervisor is a person who combines music and visual media. According to The Guild of Music Supervisors, a music supervisor is “a qualified professional who oversees all music related aspects of film, television, advertising, video games ...
, overseeing various shows.
[
Recently Cox has been composing 'Protomodal' music for instrumental ensemble, creating a uniquely distinctive sound by utilizing unusual modal scales and unorthodox harmonies, mixing rigid composition rules with John Cage like chance elements.Tony Cox on Protomodalism]
Retrieved 8 November 2017
Credits
Producer
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Caravan
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Transport and travel
*Caravan (travellers), a group of travellers journeying together
**Caravanserai, a place where a caravan could stop
*Camel train, a convoy using camels as pack animals
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Mick Softley (arranger)
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Tír na nÓg
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Magna Carta (arranger)
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Trees (arranger)
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Françoise Hardy (arranger)
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Mick Greenwood (arranger)
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Amory Kane
Arranger and orchestrator
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Family
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Yes
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* An affirmative particle in the English language; see yes and no
Education
* YES Prep Public Schools, Houston, Texas, US
* YES (Your Extraordinary Saturday), a learning program from the Minnesota Institute for Talent ...
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Renaissance
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John and
Beverley
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The town is known fo ...
Martyn
References
The Young Idea LP, at Discogs.comRetrieved 5 November 2016.
The Young Idea, on officialcharts.comRetrieved 5 November 2016.
*
Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music, by Rob Young.
* ''The Young Idea'' CD liner notes by Stefan Granados
* The Great British Recording Studios, by Howard Massey.
Mick Softley CDRetrieved 5 November 2016.
credits on Allmusic.comRetrieved 5 November 2016.
External links
Official website'The Young Idea' singleson 45Cat
Tony Coxon
Discogs
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Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
English record producers
The Bunch members