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This article first appeared in the July 1995 issue of Mix
To mainstream America, it must have seemed that Fleetwood Mac came out of nowhere when they started landing songs on the charts in 1975. Relatively few knew that the band had been through eight years and as many lineup changes before founders Mick Fleetwood and John McVie hired two unknowns from the Sa...
This article first appeared in the May 2019 issue of Mix.
Todd Rundgren was pretty much flying by the seat of his pants when he recorded “Hello It’s Me” in 1972, and he says that kind of spontaneous situation in the studio was not uncommon in those days.
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This article first appeared in the April 2019 issue of Mix.
By 1975, British rockers Be-Bop Deluxe had recorded and released two albums on EMI’s Harvest label without much notice in the States. The first, Axe Victim in 1974, produced by Ian McClintock and recorded at AIR Studios in London, was succeeded by Futurama in June 1975, recorded at ...
This article first appeared in the Feburary 2019 issue of Mix.
In 1966, pop music was changing drastically, and so were The Moody Blues. Their 1964 Denny Laine-led Decca hit, Bessie Banks’ “Go Now,” had put them on the map worldwide, but with the departure of Laine and bassist Clint Warwick two summers later, the band seemed to be foundering.
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This article first appeared in the October 2018 issue of Mix.
“From the minute they started playing, I was thinking, ‘I know this song,’” recalls engineer/producer Rob Freeman. He was behind the board at Plaza Sound Studios for Richard Gottehrer’s production of the first two albums by then-up-and-coming band Blondie.
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