| Classic Tracks: New York Dolls ‘Personality Crisis’ eSub |
Technique : Classic Tracks |
December 2009 |
Producer: Todd Rundgren • Engineer: Jack Douglas The fact that they achieved little commercial success didn’t stop the New York Dolls from making one of the most influential albums in the history of pop music.
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| Classic Tracks | REM ‘Radio Free Europe’ eSub |
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November 2009 |
| Producers: REM, Mitch Easter, Don Dixon REM’s first single wasn’t just an embryonic form of the style and sound that would later make them so successful, it was also a gem of the American new wave. But it took a long time coming...
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| Classic Tracks: Donna Summer ‘I Feel Love’ eSub |
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October 2009 |
| Producers: Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte • Engineer: Juergen Koppers The pioneering electronica of ‘I Feel Love’ didn’t just revolutionise disco, it changed dance music forever. This is the story of how it was made...
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| Classic Tracks | The Kinks ‘You Really Got Me’ eSub |
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September 2009 |
| Producer & Engineer: Shel Talmy There are very few records whose influence can be so strongly felt after 45 years as the Kinks’ ‘You Really Got Me’. At the controls was Shel Talmy, who tells us the story of a song that changed pop music.
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| Classic Tracks | Aerosmith ‘Walk This Way’ eSub |
People + Opinion : Artists/Engineers/Producers/Programmers |
August 2009 |
| Producer: Jack Douglas • Engineer: Jay Messina In 1975, Aerosmith stormed into the mainstream with their Toys In The Attic album, and in doing so set the tone for a decade of West Coast heavy metal.
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| Classic Tracks: The Moody Blues ‘Nights In White Satin’ |
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July 2009 |
| Producer: Tony Clarke • Engineer: Derek Varnals Thunderous reverbs, haunting vocals and Mellotron galore: we tell the story of recording the Moody Blues’ symphonic rock masterpiece, ‘Nights In White Satin’.
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| Classic Tracks: John Lennon ‘Whatever Gets You Thru The Night’ |
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June 2009 |
| Producer: John Lennon • Engineers: Roy Cicala, Shelly Yakus Engineer Roy Cicala worked on all of John Lennon’s albums from Imagine onwards, and in ‘Whatever Gets You Thru The Night’, recorded the only solo number one hit single of Lennon’s lifetime.
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| Classic Tracks: Van Morrison ‘Moondance’ |
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May 2009 |
| Producer: Van Morrison • Engineers: Shelly Yakus, Elliot Scheiner On his second solo album, Van Morrison took the production reins for the first time. Manning the desk was engineer Shelly Yakus, who tells the story of recording Moondance.
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| Classic Tracks: Heavy Zebra ‘Karla’ |
Technique : Classic Tracks |
April 2009 |
| Producer: Heavy Zebra • Engineer: Kevin Byrne Blighted by drug abuse and mental illness, Heavy Zebra never fulfilled their early promise. Nevertheless, the deranged majesty of their 1972 single ‘Karla’ makes it a bona fide classic track.
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| Classic Tracks: The Flamingos ‘I Only Have Eyes For You’ |
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March 2009 |
| Producers: George Goldner, Terry Johnson • Engineer: Allen Weintraub This is the story of how an inspired rearrangement of an old song created a track that, 50 years on, remains a genuine and enduring classic.
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| Classic Tracks: Rick Astley ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ |
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February 2009 |
| Producers: Stock, Aitken and Waterman Producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman developed a massively successful formula for making pop records — and the story of Rick Astley’s 1987 smash hit, ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’, is a perfect guide to the SAW assembly line...
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| Status Quo: 'Rockin' All Over The World' |
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January 2009 |
| Classic Tracks In 1977 Status Quo brought in producer Pip Williams to help them clean up their act. The result was a hit album and a best-selling single — 'Rockin' All Over The World'.
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December 2008 |
| The Pogues 'Fairytale Of New York' A Christmas song was an unexpected move from a group like the Pogues, but the story of heartbreak and pain that is 'Fairytale Of New York' eventually became the band's biggest commercial success.
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| Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force: 'Planet Rock' |
Technique : Classic Tracks |
November 2008 |
| Classic Tracks For mixing Kraftwerk's synthetic beats and simple melodies with New York rap, 'Planet Rock' can be credited with creating an entirely new genre: hip-hop. This is how it happened...
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| Classic Tracks: Paul Simon 'You Can Call Me Al' |
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September 2008 |
| Producer: Paul Simon • Engineer: Roy Halee Paul Simon's Graceland album combined a huge mixture of musical styles and was recorded in studios all over the world. The man responsible for putting it all together, both sonically and physically, was Simon's long-time engineer Roy Halee. This is how he did it...
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| Classic Tracks: DEVO 'Whip It' |
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July 2008 |
| Producers: Devo, Robert Margouleff • Engineers: Robert Margouleff, Howard Siegel Armed with a subversive view of society and a command of catchy synth-pop, Devo burst into the charts in 1980 with weird classic 'Whip It'. Producer Robert Margouleff talks de-evolution...
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| Classic Tracks: Blondie 'Hanging On The Telephone' |
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June 2008 |
| Producer: Mike Chapman • Engineer: Peter Coleman The partnership between Blondie and producer Mike Chapman created a perfect pop record - and catapulted the group from the underground to mainstream chart success.
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| CLASSIC TRACKS: Luciano Pavarotti 'Nessun Dorma' |
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May 2008 |
| Producers: Ray Minshull, Michael Woolcock • Engineers: James Lock, Kenneth Wilkinson Recording opera requires a completely different approach, environment and technique to pop or rock music — a fact that has seldom been better demonstrated than in Pavarotti's 1972 recording of 'Nessun Dorma'.
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| Classic Tracks: Frankie Goes To Hollywood 'Relax' |
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April 2008 |
| Producer: Trevor Horn • Engineers: Steve Lipson, Julian Mendelsohn The debut single from Liverpool's Frankie Goes To Hollywood was the result of adventurous production and enjoyed massive chart success - as well as creating a great deal of controversy.
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| Classic Tracks: The Ramones 'Pet Sematary' |
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March 2008 |
| Producer: Jean Beauvoir • Engineer: Fernando Kral Undisputed kings of the three-chord thrash and arguably responsible for punk rock, it took over 10 years and the theme song to a Stephen King film to secure serious US chart success for the Ramones...
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| CLASSIC TRACKS: The Four Tops: 'Reach Out I'll Be There' |
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February 2008 |
| Producers: Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland One of the most famous record labels of all time, Motown fostered a group of uniquely talented writers, engineers and musicians who often had to invent the equipment and techniques they used to keep their music at the cutting edge. Lamont Dozier explains how it was done...
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| CLASSIC TRACKS: Lynyrd Skynyrd 'Sweet Home Alabama' |
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January 2008 |
| Producer: Al Kooper • Engineers: Al Kooper, Rodney Mills In 1973, a band from Florida and California went to a studio in Georgia to record a song, provoked by a Canadian, about Alabama - and managed to define the sound of Southern rock while they were at it.
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| CLASSIC TRACKS: Stevie Wonder 'Pastime Paradise' |
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December 2007 |
Epic in every sense of the word — unning to 21 songs, involving more than 120 musicians and taking almost two years to complete — Stevie Wonder's Songs In The Key Of Life was in many ways the high-point of an already illustrious career. This is the story of how it was created.
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| Classic Tracks: Billy Swan 'I Can Help' |
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November 2007 |
| Producers: Chip Young, Billy Swan; Engineer: Chip Young In 1974 Billy Swan walked into Chip Young's Young'un Sound studio and, in two takes, recorded a million-selling single that had taken him 20 minutes to write. This is how it was done...
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| CLASSIC TRACKS: Ian Dury & The Blockheads |
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October 2007 |
| Track: 'Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick' The story of how a characteristically chaotic and unorthodox 1978 recording session took Ian Dury & The Blockheads to the top of the UK charts.
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| CLASSIC TRACKS: Madonna 'Like A Virgin' |
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September 2007 |
| Producers: Nile Rodgers, Madonna, Stephen Bray • Engineer: Jason Corsaro In mid-1984 Madonna arrived at New York City's Power Station studios with Nile Rodgers to record the album that would make her an international superstar - using cutting-edge 12-bit technology.
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| CLASSIC TRACKS: Fleetwood Mac 'Go Your Own Way' |
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August 2007 |
| Producers: Richard Dashut, Ken Caillat, Fleetwood Mac In 1976, in the face of deteriorating personal relationships and massive record company pressure, Fleetwood Mac managed to create a record that would go on to sell 30 million copies.
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| CLASSIC TRACKS: The Only Ones: 'Another Girl, Another Planet' |
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July 2007 |
| Producer: Alan Mair • Engineers: John Burns, Robert Ash Although never a commercial success, the Only One's 'Another Girl, Another Planet' has proved to be massively influential; and nearly 30 years after its original release, it's finally getting the recognition it deserves.
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| CLASSIC TRACKS: Tricky 'Black Steel' |
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June 2007 |
| Producers: Tricky • Mark Saunders Tricky's highly unorthodox approach to recording and making music led to the creation of one of the most unique and critically lauded records of the '90s.
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| CLASSIC TRACKS: Charlie Rich 'The Most Beautiful Girl In The World' |
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May 2007 |
| Producer: Billy Sherrill • Engineer: Lou Bradley 1973's 'The Most Beautiful Girl In The World' was one of the defining moments of the Nashville sound, and was the product of a finely-honed studio recording process.
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