![]() ![]() ![]() “He just kept pushing us to write parts, to atomise everything into one song. “If Steve hadn't have kept pushing us on Motorcycle…, I don't think it would have become the song it was," he added. And because he produced Love, we just implicitly trusted him.” He made me write that middle section - that Michael Schenker bit. “He was like, ‘No, it's got to have straight lines, it's got to be violent! It's got to have violence and grace!’” Bradfield recalled. In the same interview, Manics’ frontman James Dean Bradfield described how Brown’s guidance and insight shaped songs such as Slash ‘n’ Burn and Motorcycle Emptiness.īradfield credited Brown with transforming Generation Terrorists album opener Slash ’n’ Burn from a “shambling indie rock song” into a muscular riff-rocker. And once we went with him we were on a pattern - that's what the record was gonna sound like.” “That's one of the main reasons we worked with Browny. “She Sells Sanctuary for us was a brilliant rock record,” Nicky Wire told Classic Rock’s Scott Rowley in 2013. Brown produced Wham!’s debut album Fantastic, before going on to work with The Cult and the Manics. Steve Brown died following a short illness related to a fall in December.īrown entered the music business in the 1970s as a drum roadie following a chance conversation with Elton John at a petrol station, and went on to become a tape op in a studio alongside his schoolfriend, Steve Lillywhite, who went on to produce U2, The Pogues, Big Country, Simple Minds and more. Steve Brown (producer) died January 2, 2021 In 1984, he joined Dexys Midnight Runners, most commonly known for their 1982 hit Come On Eileen.īolton additionally became the keyboard teacher of Paul McCartney's wife and collaborator Linda. Leaving the group in 1971, Bolton went on to have brief stints with Blind Eye and Clockwork Orange, before joining Mott The Hoople in 1973 to serve as their touring keyboardist that December. Bolton was born in 1948 in Wigan, England, and began his career in late 1969 as a member of White Myth, who opened for bands such as Queen, Free, Humble Pie and Atomic Rooster. ![]()
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