John Leckie

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John Leckie

John Leckie (born October 23, 1949 in Paddington , London ) is an English music producer . Since the late 1970s he has been one of the most important producers in the fields of punk , post-punk , new wave and alternative rock . In 1997 he received the BRIT Award for Best British Producer for the production of the album K by Kula Shaker . He is considered a specialist in debut albums to help internationally little known bands achieve a commercial breakthrough.

Life

After graduating from high school in the late 1960s, Leckie completed a two-year film and television course at Ravensbourne College of Art. He began his career in the music business as an employee of EMI in February 1970 as a tape operator at Abbey Road Studios, London , where he worked until 1977 with artists such as the ex-Beatles John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Pink Floyd and the producer Phil Spector . First productions of punk music were for Be-Bop Deluxe, Doctors of Madness and The Adverts . In 1977 he produced the debut album while holidaying White Music by XTC . When the band wanted to sign him for their second album Go 2 , but EMI didn't want to release him, he gave up the job and started his own business. He turned down offers from the United States because he wanted to work unconventionally and did not believe that this way of working was in demand in America.

As a freelancer , he oversaw numerous debut albums by artists from the post-punk environment such as XTC, Magazine , the early Simple Minds and the early The Human League . Among his most famous productions in the field of alternative rock debut album include The Stone Roses the Stone Roses and The Bends , the second album by Radiohead . Also, The Fall , Muse , Mark Owen and The Verve took on plates under Leckies line. In the Britpop environment , he produced the album Mother Nature Talks and Kula Shaker the album K for bands such as Cast . For the production of The Bends , Leckie was nominated for the BRIT Award in 1996, but was defeated by Brian Eno . The coveted award was given Leckie a year later for the production of K .

In 1988, Leckie produced the album Copperfield for the German singer Phillip Boa .

Discography (selection)

Awards

  • 1995: Music Week Award for Best Producer (Award from the British magazine Music Week)
  • 1996: Q Award as best producer (award from music magazine Q )
  • 1997: BRIT Award for Best British Producer
  • 2001: Producer of the Year Award from the Music Manager Forum
  • 2011: Gold Badge Award from BASCA (British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors)

literature

Some bibliographical information, but above all a selection of the works, can be found in English at:

  • Dave Thompson: Alternative Rock . Miller Freeman, San Francisco 2000, ISBN 0-87930-607-6 . , Pp. 788-90

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The BBC artist page for John Leckie. Retrieved February 3, 2015 .
  2. ↑ 1997 - British Producer - John Leckie. (No longer available online.) In: brits.co.uk. Archived from the original on April 13, 2012 ; accessed on September 8, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.brits.co.uk
  3. ↑ Mark Cunningham: John Leckie: True Brit. In: soundonsound.com. May 1997, accessed September 8, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Gold Badge Awards 2011. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 7, 2011 ; accessed on November 7, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.goldbadgeawards.com

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personal data
SURNAME Leckie, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English music producer
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Paddington , London