John Leckie
John Leckie has since the late 1970s, one of the leading British manufacturers in the field of punk, post punk, new wave and alternative rock. In 1997 he received the BRIT Award for Best British Producer for the production of the album K of Kula Shaker. He is a specialist in debut albums to help internationally little-known bands to commercial breakthrough.
Life
Leckie graduated after his education in the late 1960s, a two year course for film and television at Ravensbourne College of Art, he began his career in the music business as a clerk at EMI in February 1970 as the operator of the tape recorders in London's Abbey Road Studios, where he worked to 1977 with artists such as the ex-Beatle John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pink Floyd and the producer Phil Spector. First productions of punk music were for Be-Bop Deluxe, Doctors of Madness and The Adverts. In 1977 he produced during his vacation, the debut album White Music by XTC. When the band wanted to sign him for their second album, Go 2, EMI did not want to release him, he gave up the job and started his own business. Offers from the United Stataten he refused because he wanted to work unconventional and did not believe this way of working in America asked.
As a freelancer, he has acted for many debut albums by artists from the post-punk environment such as XTC, Magazine, early Simple Minds and the early Human League. Among his most famous productions in the alternative rock include the debut album of The Stone Roses Stone Roses and The Bends, the second album by Radiohead. Also, The Fall, Muse, Mark Owen and The Verve took under Leckies line on plates. In the environment of Britpop he produced for bands such as Cast Album Mother Nature Talks and Kula Shaker Album K. For the production of The Bends Leckie in 1996 was nominated for a BRIT Award, but lost Brian Eno. The coveted award was given Leckie a year later for the production of K.
For the German singer Phillip Boa produced Leckie 1988, the album Copperfield.