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| | Mickie Most - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Mickie Most, born Michael Peter Hayes (June 20, 1938 - May 30, 2003), successful record producer notably with a string of Number 1 hit singles with his own RAK Records label and acts such as The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Donovan and Suzi Quatro. | | | Most was also a panellist on various television talent shows such as ITV's New Faces and presented Revolver, a program devoted to punk rock which was at odds with his "studio factory" approach to music. | | | Most was heavily influenced by skiffle music and early rock 'n' roll in his youth. |
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| | Donovan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Also a major set of his Mickie Most albums is on release from 9 May 2005.This EMI set has dozens of extra tracks including another song with the Jeff Beck Group. | | | Kozak introduced Donovan to American impresario Allen Klein (who would later take over management of The Rolling Stones) and Klein in turn introduced Donovan to producer Mickie Most, who was then riding high on the success of his chart-topping productions with The Animals and Herman's Hermits. | | | Most's commercial instincts were spot-on, and the song became one of Donovan's biggest hits, going Top 5 in both the UK and the USA and Top 10 in Australia. |
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| | Pop Life - Mickie Most (Metro Times Detroit) |
| | In May 1964, marginal pop star/budding record producer Mickie Most, on the cusp of 26 years old, leased time at a London studio to cut a song with the Animals, a white R&B quintet he'd recently discovered in their hometown of Newcastle. | | | With his usual impeccable timing, he sold RAK to behemoth EMI Records in 1983, and in recent years was cited frequently in the English press as one of the U.K.'s 500 wealthiest people. | | | Given a dearth of knowledgeable personnel, Most taught himself the basics of record production and, upon returning to the U.K. in 1963, decided he preferred the studio to the stage. |
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http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=5829
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| | Expert About mi:Mickie |
| | Mickie Most, who has died of cancer in London aged 64, was one of the UK's most successful pop music producers, enjoying consistent hits from 1964 until the mid-1980s. | | | Changing his name to Mickie Most, the singer followed his wife Christine back to her native South Africa in 1959, and found pop stardom there, fronting The Playboys and scoring 11 consecutive No 1s with covers of contemporary American songs. | | | Mickie & Elizabeth are available for music for weddings on the Mendocino Coast. |
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| | Beat Merchants And The Underground Legends |
| | Most's move to the colonies proved to be extremely fortuitous - his British solo recordings (as well as singles recorded with future producer Alex Murray as The Most Brothers) had all met with widespread indifference back home. | | | The most likely explanation is that both guitarists recorded material for the album and RCA Victor handpicked the best cuts while choosing on a final track listing. | | | Other sources close to the band appear to support his claim, and yet Louis is insistent that he did play on at least half a dozen of the album tracks. |
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| | Donovan |
| | In late 1965, Donovan hooked up with manager Allen Klein and a new producer, Mickie Most (who also worked with the Animals, Herman's Hermits, and Lulu), who steered the young singer away from acoustic folk and into psychedelic pop. | | | Donovan and Most parted company in 1969, and though the singer was able to sustain his albums success into the early Seventies, the hit singles had dried up. | | | An equally successful second single, "Colours", an album, and the "Universal Soldier" EP put the 18-year-old singer squarely in the folk camp, an image that was re-enforced by peaked cap, denims, and motto-bearing acoustic guitar. |
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| | Disc Magazine May 1, 1971 |
| | CCS isn't Most's only project; Korner and Thorup have their own things going, jointly and separately, and Cameron is at present involved in writing two film scores and the music for a West End musical. | | | Mickie Most, Alexis Korner, John Cameron, three of the brains behind CCS, are talking about the band. | | | Three of them talk to Disc about the problems of the big band in 1970. |
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http://alexis-korner.net/disc.html
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| | The Story of Racey |
| | Despite the fact that 1977 was the height of punk rock boom and clean-cut bands were considered unfashionable, Mickie Most [<- picture] was impressed by the bands live performance and original songs and signed them to his RAK label. | | | Mickie Most then signed Richard to RAK Publishing as a songwriter. | | | In 1995, they signed a record contract with CMC RECORDS and went into PUK Studios in Denmark (also used by the current line-up of Smokie) to record their first album for over 10 years. |
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| | Full Track Mono - Both Sides Now Stereo Chat Board |
| | Most studios were equipped with Ampex 300s for mono and Ampex 350-2 (2-track) for stereo masters/mixdowns. | | | Besides Mickie Most produced stuff, The Shocking Blue's "Venus" from 1970 was not recorded multitrack, either. |
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Music Funeral for pop producer Most |
| | Most's many number one records were, critics say, a result of his knack for finding the right singer for the right song. | | | Most was reported to be worth £50m and credited with producing more number one hits world-wide than any other record producer, through his RAK label and studio in London. | | | Over almost 30 years in the business, he worked with some of the biggest pop acts in the 1960s and 70s, including Lulu, The Animals, Herman's Hermits and Suzi Quatro. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2974748.stm
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| | BreakingNews.ie: Producer Mickie Most dies in London |
| | Among Most’s recent achievements was the success of the album by Johnny Hates Jazz, co-produced with the band’s drummer, his son Calvin Hayes. | | | In 1969, Most realised another dream with the creation of Rak Records and Rak Music publishing. | | | His first band, The Most Brothers, scored their first UK success with Marvin Rainwater’s It Takes a Whole Lotta Loving to Keep my Baby Happy. |
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http://breaking.tcm.ie/2003/05/31/story101022.html
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| | HotChocolate |
| | Their first project for Mickie was not a recording but a songwriting task. | | | But with the Beatles break-up just around the corner and the inevitable demise of Apple Records that was the extent of their tenure with the label. | | | A rock-based bass heavy track that was also the opener for their fourth album released in late 1978 on Infinity Records. |
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| | Canadian Classic Rock - Herman's Hermits Biography |
| | Mickie Most got the group to record more songs in the same vein, including the actual Edwardian-era music hall number "I'm Henry the Eighth, I Am," specifically for release as singles in America. | | | Most recognized that those acts were leaving behind a huge number of listeners who would still buy songs resembling simple, relatively innocent sounds of 1964 or even earlier. | | | He was impressed with their wholesome, clean-cut image, and with Noone's singing and pleasant, non-threatening stage presence, and he agreed to produce them, arranging a recording contract for the group with the EMI-Columbia label in England; their American releases were licensed to MGM Records. |
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| | Mickie Most, Record Producer and Pop Impresario, Dies at 64 |
| | Most took his nickname when he was a singer in the group the Most Brothers in the late 50's, just as American rock 'n' roll was first taking hold among an excited and optimistic generation of young British musicians. | | | Most emerged as an impresario in the days of the early British rock 'n' roll scene, a time when a producer's role commonly exceeded just supervising records. | | | Mickie Most, Record Producer and Pop Impresario, Dies at 64 |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/05/obituaries/05MOST.html?ex=1370145600&en=a7fad30911e12dc7&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND
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| | MOST Mickey : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music |
| | MOST Mickey : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music | | | He abandoned light-harmony rock when he met his South African-born wife, emigrating to S.A. where he formed Mickie Most and the Playboys and exploited the non-availability of USA music with 11 consecutive no. 1 records with covers (Chuck Berry's 'Johnny B. Goode' etc). | | | (b Michael Hayes, 20 June '38, Harrow, Middlesex; d 30 June 2003 in London, of cancer) Producer and pop svengali, changing his name in the late 1950s searching for success with Alex Murray as The Most Brothers, whose backing band incl. |
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http://www.musicweb-international.com/encyclopaedia/m/M334.HTM
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| | Where are they now? (The Arrows) |
| | Most recently Jake's most famous co-write with fellow Arrow, singer Alan Merrill, 1975's "I Love Rock N Roll" has been recorded by Britney Spears and is on her #1 platinum album titled Britney. | | | The most recent news is that the Arrows Merrill and Hooker classic rock composition "I Love Rock 'n Roll" has been recorded by megastar Britney Spears, and is on her new 2001, #1 album release "Britney". | | | The Joan Jett multi platinum 1982 version of the song is an enduring international rock n roll anthem. |
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| | Facts Page 2 |
| | Mickie Most would later claim that the Hermits records John Paul arranged outsold the Beatles in 1965-66, selling twelve million singles in America alone. | | | His most prestigious session came that year, when Andrew Oldham hired him to produce the string charts for "She's a Rainbow" on the Rolling Stones' Their Satanic Majesties Request. | | | He also worked with Jeff Beck and Terry Reid, whose first album for Most had many of the same chord changes as Led Zeppelin's first, a testament to Jones's presence. |
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| | The Arrows Pop Group |
| | Most of all of these recordings can be found on various compilations, released as reissues in the millenium. | | | The Arrows are a seventies rock 'n' roll band, and they recorded on RAK Records in England, a record label owned and run by one of the music industry greats, Mickie Most, who also was the Arrows producer. | | | The band started in 1974, when they released their first single "Touch too much", a record that went top 10 in the charts. |
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| | Record Producers Hall of Fame |
| | The main criticism of Mickie is purely that although he created a good atmosphere and some great sounding pop records and the arrangements we spot on he never had a sound that was his own. | | | This big metallic and throbbing sound was to dominate the charts for most of the year and as the history books show 1984 was definitely Trevor Horn year with 10 millions records and 4 massive number ones (Three of which are still some of the biggest sellers of all time) to his name. | | | Talking of the Beatles it is a little know fact that Chris played on the Beatles ‘White Album’ and it is rumoured that he produced a few tracks with the Beatles when George Martin was on holiday. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Music: To Sir With Love - The Complete Mickie Most Recordings |
| | Most of the tracks are really wonderful from that 60s era. | | | Her two Atco albums, "New Routes" and "Melody Fair" (and the single tracks) are extremely mature and superb albums for a 21 year old performer to have recorded. | | | Lulu's early music (recorded on the Decca label) was strongly influenced by R+B but when she moved to Columbia, Mickey Most recorded her as a mainstream pop singer, not always giving her ideal material to record. |
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| | Spectropop Group Discussion Archives: Digest Number 899 - 31 May 2003 |
| | Mickie was arguably the most professionally > astute and market savvy record producer in UK pop music history... | | | Mickie was arguably the most professionally astute and market savvy record producer in UK pop music history, his nigh clairvoyant skill of spotting potential Star talent and hit material only equaled by US counter part Clive Davis. | | | Having played on a slew of Phil Spector-produced classics as a member of the legendary Wrecking Crew, he went on to record some of the most talked about "Wall Of Sound" epics ever committed to magnetic tape. |
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| | Peter Noone :: The Artist formally known as Herman |
| | Mickie was sold on recording Herman and the Hermits. | | | It was one of the places where we got to play frequently as we got ourselves musically adept. | | | The world famous record producer, and he was coming to see us. |
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| | Stereophile: Mickie Most 1938–2003 |
| | The Guardian Unlimited's Paul Foot speculates, "Most probably he came into contact with asbestos in recording studios soundproofed with vinyl tiles impregnated with asbestos." Despite prolonged efforts to remove asbestos from commercial and residential buildings, it is still widespread. | | | June 15, 2003 — The music world is mourning the passing of British record producer Mickie Most, who died of lung cancer in London on May 30. | | | In the late '60s and early '70s, rock music took a heavier, darker turn, a trend that was not to his liking. |
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| | Scotsman.com News - Entertainment - Music - Legendary music producer Mickie Most dies |
| | With the arrival of punk, Most presented Revolver, a short-lived television show devoted to the new music. | | | He formed a pop group called The Most Brothers and took his name from it, touring and recording for the Decca record label. | | | Long-term friend Deke Arlon, the president of Sanctuary Entertainment Group, said: "He was a remarkable talent who will leave a huge hole in the music industry." |
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| | I love rock n roll |
| | When they were done, Mickie Most, who really wasn't totally sold on the song from the get go, didn't hear the energetic raw "I Love Rock N Roll" as a hit, instead putting the polished ballad "Broken Down Heart" on the A-side of the single. | | | The Arrows recorded two songs as possible singles for their next release, the titles were "Broken Down Heart" and "I Love Rock N Roll." The band went into Morgan Studios in London in early '75 and recorded both songs. | | | The songwriters don't come into the equation where permission to record a song is concerned, only the publisher matters, and in this case it was RAK music publishing, owned by music mogul Mickie Most. |
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| | Donovan interview |
| | With Phil Spector, with George Martin, with Mickie Most. | | | If you noticed from the "Fairy Tale" record there was one song, "Sunny Goodge Street," which I wrote before I met Mickie, which showed that a change was happening in my music. | | | Grip: Going back a bit, when you came out with the "Sunshine Superman" LP in 1966, you made a big jump, lyrically but also musically. |
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| | BBC - London - Entertainment - Music - Mickie Most: In Memoriam - Lord Crowley's rant n roll - Gary Crowley's Online ... |
| | I was 15 at the time and the editor of our school punk fanzine, The Modern World, and one lunchtime I decided to call the Birmingham office of a new TV music show called Revolver to ask whether it was possible for any London kids to come up to the recordings. | | | It was with great sadness that I learned last week of the passing of one of the true moguls of the music industry, Mickie Most. | | | Presented by the wickedly funny Peter Cook - who played a grumpy ballroom manager who LOATHED punk - its mix of new bands, retro clips and humour was the perfect Saturday night tonic. |
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| | The Stage Online :: Opinion :: Chit Chat - Getting the Most out of Lulu |
| | Legendary record producer Mickie Most was behind some of the most enduring hits of the sixties, but it seems Lulu was not happy with the direction in which he tried to direct her career. | | | In the sleeve notes to her new album, To Sir with Love - The Complete Mickie Most Recordings, the singer explains that she had a number of clashes with the now deceased knob-turner. | | | Lulu, who currently presents her own show on BBC Radio 2 Photo: BBC |
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| | Donovan |
| | Like Donovan's other Micky Most produced albums this one touches upon a great varity of musical styles and instrumentations, with tasteful and original arrangements by John Cameron... | | | Drawing on a broad range of Donovan's material from his and past present, Mickie Most once again handles the production on Donovan's second album for EMI, while John Cameron provides a selection of exquisite arrangements, with the exception of Mellow Yellow which was arranged by John Paul Jones. | | | To call the album electric is probably a little misguiding, as many tracks are almost pure acoustic recordings... |
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| | ATV TV Studios, Birmingham |
| | Public Image, in fact, were to be the last featured band in the first series of this programme, bringing the show to a dramatic conclusion. | | | They are now as furious as Mr Most. | | | The band were expected to make a physical at around 2.00pm. |
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| | VH1.com : Mickie Most & His Playboys : Biography |
| | Though this sort of arrangement would never make Most an international star, it did walk him through the process of recording, and he amassed 11 consecutive number ones on the South African charts. | | | He produced "I'm Into Something Good" for Herman's Hermits and "Tobacco Road" for the Nashville Teens and, in 1966, Most produced Donovan's widely acclaimed Sunshine Superman album. | | | He had them record "Baby, Let Me Take You Home" and "House of the Rising Sun," the latter becoming a worldwide smash that catapulted the group to stardom and Most to credibility. |
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http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/most_mickie/bio.jhtml
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| | DVDfever.co.uk - Charts, News and Reviews of DVDs, Games, Hardware, Laserdiscs, Cinema Films & more |
| | These Mickie Most recordings only cover the 'Swinging-Sixties', and why not, it was the birth of popular music as we know it today. | | | If you’re not conversant with most of the tracks, you’ll be impressed with the songwriting contributions. | | | Just released on EMI Catalogue is a mammoth 39-track compilation from '60s pop 'shouter' and icon, Marie McDonald Lawrie aka Lulu. |
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http://www.dvdfever.co.uk/reviews/erlulu.shtml
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| | BRITPOP -- A Short History (in capsule form) of British Pop Music |
| | Their manager was Don Arden, who like Mickie Most, Larry Parnes, and Brian Epstein, maintained an interest in pop music as a business venture. | | | After being introduced to the band by producer Mickie Most (whose stable included Herman's Hermits), the dreaded Mike Smith at Decca allowed Dave and the Cruisers to record "Memphis", then insisted that subsequent recordings include a studio band in back of Mr. | | | What the teenage Beatles grew up with, in their own pop music culture, was substantially different from the American experience...so much so that this note was created for your enjoyment and edification. |
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| | Terry Reid: Superlungs - PopMatters Music Review |
| | Were it not for a contract he signed with British music impresario Mickie Most -- who brought the world Herman's Hermits and Donovan -- Terry Reid likely would have become the singer for Led Zeppelin. | | | But with the voracious maw of CD reissuers systematically regurgitating much of pop music's past, it was inevitable that Reid would be rediscovered, but in this case we should be thankful rather than cynical toward the record company's motives. | | | Zeppelin may have never made its Tolkien-steeped journey up the misty mountain, and Purple may never have broken up and reformed to record Perfect Strangers, and then the soundtrack for the first time I was ever really, really high would have been totally different. |
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http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/r/reidterry-superlungs.shtml
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| | Amazon.ca: Music: Hurdy Gurdy Man |
| | I still enjoy his music, and believe that most listeners will find the experience worthwhile. | | | On The Hurdy Gurdy Man, his over-ambitious nature and scattershot production sense occasionally sabotaged Donovan's songs rather than emphasizing their strengths. | | | It is worth noting that this album, featuring Jeff Beck on lead guitar, was nearly his last - followed by a reunion album ('Cosmic Wheels') several years later, and then a long wait until the arrival of 'Sutras.' |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Music: The Complete Animals |
| | Nevertheless, despite the title of the compilation, it isn't actually their complete recordings – there is a sub-text explaining that these are the complete recordings that they made with Mickie Most as producer, although the liner notes describe their whole career. | | | It is fortunate for us all that the Animals were discovered because they recorded some of the best R+B music to come of the UK in the sixties. | | | All the music I've mentioned so far and much more can be found on this excellent compilation. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000006SGT
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| | Lulu Music CDs at Songsearch.com |
| | The Complete Mickie Most Recordings In One Collection With 4 Previously Unreleased Tracks. | | | Two-On-One Reissue Combines The Scottish Pop Icon's Out-Of-Print Classics, 'the Most Of Lulu' and 'lulu's Album', Both Originally Released In 1969. | | | The Complete Mickie Most Recordings In One Collection. |
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http://www.songsearch.com/catalog/l/lulu.html
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| | The Silhouettes |
| | Hank Squires: rhythym guitar (ex-Mickie Most and his Playboys) | | | The Silhouettes have George Hill (19) on drums, Leon Booysen (19) bass guitar, Archie van der Ploeg (21) lead guitar, and Hank Squires (18) as the rhythm guitarist. | | | Leon Booysen: bass guitar (ex-Mickie Most and his Playboys) |
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| | Terry Reid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | His first single with Most, "Better By Far" became a radio favourite but the album, Bang Bang, You're Terry Reid, was not a commercial success. | | | Reid toured the United States again and appeared at the infamous Rolling Stones concert at Altamont. | | | Reid came to the attention of hits producer Mickie Most and Most became his manager. |
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http://www.americancanyon.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Terry_Reid
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| | alanmerrill.net: Alan Merrill's Biography |
| | The CD is a recorded look-back-over-the-shoulder at his career repertoire, spanning the years, mixed in with some newer Merrill compositions as well. | | | Famed hit-maker Mickie Most produced the Arrows on his RAK record label. | | | More recently, in winter 2002, he has released the seasonal solo album, "A Merrilly Christmas". |
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| | Cdxpress |
| | Recorded at Mirasound New York USA on 19th November 1968. With Mickie Waller on drums. Second of two versions recorded that day on 8 track 'live' in the studio. | | | Originally released in 1969, 'Beck-Ola' was recorded at De Lane Lea with Rod Stewart on vocals, Ron Wood on guitar / bass, Jeff Beck on bass / guitar, Nicky Hopkins on keyboards, Tony Newman on drums and Mickie Most as producer. |
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http://www.cdxpress.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Jeff_Beck_324.html
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| | TERRY REID - SUPERLUNGS |
| | Most's contractual hold on Terry, the eclectic set of song choices and uneven production Reid felt forced upon him, not to mention the decision not even to release Reid's debut album in the UK (only being released in the US) all led to years of litigation with Most. | | | But with them, the band would have gone in a different way. | | | So I'm back in England after the end of this Yardbirds tour, and Peter said 'Well I've located Terry, but he's just signed a solo deal.' I said 'Who with?' He said 'Mickie Most!' Now you know their two desks faced each other, right?!" |
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| | CMT.com : Lulu : Albums |
| | The Complete Mickie Most Recordings: To Sir With Love |
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| | I keep hearing this is supposed to be a "jazz" album, but I don't hear any jazz. | | | ------ and thank you so much Mickie - and those who have gone to the safe haven before you - for the music. | | | Most is reputed to have been responsible for more number one hits across the globe than any other producer. |
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| | Blogcritics.org: Mickie Most dies |
| | Filed under: Music, Music: News - Scroll down to read comments on this story and/or add one of your own. | | | More on Most from the Encyclopedia of Record Producers: | | | In 1965, Most added Manchester's Herman's Hermits and flower child Donovan |
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| | AIP Records Album Discography 4 |
| | Bands include the Sneekers, Wayne Gibson and the Dynamic Sounds, the Zephyrs, the Talismen, Mickie Most, the Untamed, the Redcaps, Neil Christian's Crusaders, Mickey Finn, the Blue Rondos, Lulu and the Luvvers, Brenda Lee, the Pickwicks, the Lancastrians, and the Primitives. | | | In recent years, most of our new releases have been CD-only. | | | Click here to go back to the previous page. |
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| | HIGH BIAS -- The Arrows, Vodka Collins, Alan Merrill |
| | (He was also in a post-Arrows band called Runner, but it's not represented here.) He's even the co-author of what has become, for better or worse, one of the most indelible rock & roll anthems of the past 30 years. | | | That's not to say that the trio—bassist/singer Merrill, guitarist Jake Hooker, drummer Paul Varley—doesn't often draw from the same well as the glitter hoards (though they eschewed the makeup and silver threads). | | | The New York-born singer/songwriter has been making records since the early 70s, becoming a star in Japan with Vodka Collins and in England with the Arrows, working behind the scenes with Meat Loaf and Rick Derringer and making the occasional solo record when the mood takes him. |
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| | Sun sets on Most's pioneering career. 01/06/2003. The Space: Arts News. |
| | British record producer Mickie Most, who worked with the pop group The Animals, singer Lulu and guitarist Jeff Beck, has died at the age of 64 after a year-long battle with cancer. | | | In the early 1960s, Most, who had begun to develop his career as a producer, pioneered the success of British music in the United States. | | | In 1958, Most, who has two daughters Nathalie and Christalle and a son Calvin, followed Christina back to her homeland South Africa where he became the country's first rock star, scoring hits with his band The Playboys. |
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| | dustbury.com: Most of the British Invasion |
| | Most's greatest hits include the original Animals recordings for EMI, the Herman's Hermits catalog, Lulu's biggest hits (including "To Sir with Love", a US #1 which did not chart in Britain), Donovan's CBS sides (starting with "Sunshine Superman"), and a wild one-shot for an American artist, Brenda Lee's "Is It True". | | | Most, born Michael Peter Hayes in 1938, started out as a recording artist, as a member of the British group The Most Brothers. | | | Record producer Mickie Most, behind the board for many great English records of the 60s and 70s, has died at his home in the north of London. |
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| | Producer Mickie Most Dies At 64 |
| | Mickie Most, a music producer who helped craft the sound of the 1960s' British invasion, has died. | | | The band failed to make it big, but the name stuck. | | | "Mickie's musical success in the U.S. stemmed from his monthly trips to New York and L.A. carrying a briefcase full of his latest tapes," said longtime friend Deke Arlon. |
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