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. Over the years, he has collaborated with several prominent artists and bands, including

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, and

Paul McCartney Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained global fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and the piano, and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John ...

. His work has also taken him to the United States, where he has contributed to projects for Rush, The Tubes, and others as an engineer and mixer. He has two

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nominations, with one win (Best Engineered Recording - Non-classical in 1979) for

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Discography

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* 1974:

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– ''

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'' (assistant engineer) * 1974:

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– ''Holiday'' (tape operator) * 1975: Ian Hunter – ''Ian Hunter'' (assistant engineer) * 1976:

Jeff Beck Geoffrey Arnold Beck (24 June 1944 – 10 January 2023) was an English musician. He rose to prominence as the guitarist of the rock band the Yardbirds, and afterwards founded and fronted the Jeff Beck Group and Beck, Bogert & Appice. In 1975, ...

– ''Wired'' (engineer) * 1976:

– '' Wings at the Speed of Sound'' (engineer) * 1976:

Nektar Nektar (German for ''nectar'') is an English progressive rock band formed in Hamburg, West Germany in 1969, by guitarist and lead vocalist Roye Albrighton, keyboardist Allan "Taff" Freeman, bassist Derek "Mo" Moore, and drummer Ron Howden. H ...

– ''Recycled'' (tape operator) * 1977:

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(engineer) * 1977:

Split Enz Split Enz were a New Zealand band formed in 1972. Regarded as the first New Zealand band to gain significant recognition outside of Australasia, they were initially noted for their progressive rock, progressive/art rock sound, flamboyant visua ...

– ''Dizrythima'' (engineer) * 1977:

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– '' A Song'' (engineer) * 1977:

Bert Jansch Herbert Jansch (3 November 1943 – 5 October 2011) was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle (band), Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s as an acoustic guitarist and ...

– '' A Rare Conundrum'' (engineer) * 1978:

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– '' What Do You Want from Live'' (producer, engineer) * 1978: Wings – ''London Town'' (assistant engineer) * 1978:

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– ''Don't Look Down'' (engineer) * 1979:

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– ''Street Machine'' (engineer) * 1979:

– ''

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'' (engineer) * 1979:

– ''

'' (producer, engineer, mixing) * 1980: Supertramp – ''Paris'' (producer, engineer) * 1982: Supertramp – ''Famous Last Words'' (producer, engineer) * 1984: Rush – ''Grace Under Pressure'' (producer, engineer) * 1985:

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– ''Flame'' (producer) * 1985:

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– ''...undone'' (remastering) * 1987: The Mercy Seat – ''The Mercy Seat'' (mastering, assistant engineer) * 1988:

– '' CHOBA B CCCP'' (engineer) * 1989:

Then Jerico Then Jerico are an English rock band. They scored five top 50 hits in the UK during the 1980s. Career The band's early line-up included singer Mark Shaw, bassist Jasper Stainthorpe, drummer Steve Wren, and guitarist Scott Taylor. The band pla ...

– '' The Big Area'' (producer, engineer) * 1989:

Tina Turner Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was a singer, songwriter, actress, and author. Dubbed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Queen of Rock 'n' Roll", her vocal prowess, raspy voice, and electrifyin ...

– '' Foreign Affair'' (original engineering) * 1989: Paul McCartney – '' Flowers in the Dirt'' (producer, engineer, programming, computers) * 1990: Paul McCartney – '' Tripping the Live Fantastic'' (producer) * 1990: The Raindogs – ''Lost Souls'' (producer, engineer, keyboards) * 1992: Chris Bell – ''

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'' (engineer) * 1997: Paul McCartney – ''

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'' (mixing engineer) * 2006: The Beauty Room – ''The Beauty Room'' (drum engineering) * 2007:

Kevin Ayers Kevin Ayers (16 August 1944 – 18 February 2013) was an English singer-songwriter who was active in the English psychedelic music movement. Ayers was a founding member of the psychedelic band Soft Machine in the mid-1960s, and was closely asso ...

– ''

The Unfairground ''The Unfairground'' is a 2007 album by Kevin Ayers, recorded with members of Ladybug Transistor, Teenage Fanclub, Neutral Milk Hotel, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and Roxy Music. It was his sixteenth studio LP and his first new set of recordings in fi ...

'' (producer, associate producer, mixing) * 2011: Frank Zappa – ''Hammersmith Odeon'' (engineer) * 2013: Alex Hepburn – ''Together Alone'' (recording) * 2013: Josh Krajcik – ''Blindly, Lonely, Lovely'' (engineer)

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