Rhett Davies (born 1949 in

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) is an English

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and

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. Davies' father was the

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player

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. Davies became a

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engineer at

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in the early 1970s. One of his first recording sessions was for

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's 1974 album '' Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)''. Davies and Eno worked together on several subsequent projects and made innovations in studio recording techniques, especially regarding tape loops and

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s. He produced many artists of the 1970s and 1980s, and largely retired from production work in the 1990s, although he worked with

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on '' As Time Goes By'' (1999), ''

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'' (2007), '' Olympia'' (co-producer, 2010), '' Avonmore'' (2014) and Bitter-Sweet (co-producer, 2018).

Credits

Davies produced and/or engineered the following albums: * Genesis - '' Selling England by the Pound'' *

- '' Another Time, Another Place'', '' As Time Goes By'', '' Boys and Girls'', ''

'', '' Olympia'', '' The Jazz Age'', '' Avonmore'', '' Bitter-Sweet'' *

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- '' Viva!'', ''

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'', '' Flesh and Blood'', '' Avalon'', '' High Road'' * Trapeze - '' Hot Wire'' * Robert Palmer - '' Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley'', '' Maybe It's Live'' *

- '' Taking Tiger Mountain'', '' Another Green World'', '' Evening Star'', '' Before and After Science'', '' Ambient 1: Music for Airports'', ''

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'' * Jim Capaldi - '' Whale Meat Again'' * Phil Manzanera - '' Diamond Head'', '' 801 Live'', '' Listen Now'', ''Primitive Guitars'' *

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- ''

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'', '' Moonmadness'', '' Rain Dances'', '' A Live Record'' * The Hollies - ''Russian Roulette'', ''Crazy Steal'' *

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- ''Winning'' *

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- ''

'' *

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- '' More Songs About Buildings and Food'' *

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- ''

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'', '' Beat'' *

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- ''

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'', '' Party Mix!'' *

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- '' Second Thoughts'', '' Enz of an Era'' *

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- '' Dazzle Ships'' * Icehouse - ''

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'' * Industry - '' Stranger to Stranger'' * Cock Robin - '' First Love / Last Rites'' * Til Tuesday - '' Welcome Home'' * Wang Chung - '' Huang Chung'' * Then Jerico - '' The Big Area''

References

* Rhett Davies @ Allmusic.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Davies, Rhett 1949 births Living people Musicians from London English record producers