Joe Boyd

Joe Boyd (* August 5, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American music producer. Among the artists were supported by him, inter alia, Nick Drake, Fairport Convention and the Incredible String Band.

Biography

Joe Boyd grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. As a student at Harvard, he organized a private living room appearance ("a neighbor 's large living room" ) by Lonnie Johnson, who had been a week or two before being rediscovered by jazz radio journalist Chris Albertson, and a campus appearance ( "dining room at Harvard 's Eliot House " ) by Sleepy John Estes.

After graduating, he began in 1964 as a tour manager for the organizer and producer George Wein to work. He organized and supervised tours of Europe well-known blues and jazz musicians. As a production manager at the Newport jazz and folk festivals he experienced with 1965, as Bob Dylan moved from acoustic to electric guitar.

In the fall of 1965, Boyd took over the management of the newly opened European office of the record company Elektra Records in London. A year later he gave up this job and founded together with John Hopkins to London's UFO Club, where bands like Pink Floyd and Soft Machine began their careers. In addition, he established the production company Witch Season Productions, the 1967 also produced the first single from Pink Floyd.

In early 1971, sold Boyd Witch Season of Iceland Records. In Los Angeles, he became head of the film music division of Warner Brothers. Among the films for their soundtracks, he was responsible, among other Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick and Deliverance is the first by John Boorman. In 1973, Boyd the much acclaimed film documentary Jimi Hendrix together.

Boyd continued to work as a record producer, including Maria Muldaur for and Chris McGregor. In 1980 he founded Hannibal Records, where in world music has been particularly active, but also with bands like REM and 10,000 Maniacs worked. In 1988, Boyd producer of Michael Caton- Jones ' film debut Scandal about the Profumo affair with John Hurt, Joanne Whalley and Bridget Fonda in the lead roles. In 2001, he left Hannibal Records. In 2006 his book White Bicycles - Making Music in the 1960s.