David Lord (producer): Difference between revisions
m →Career: ce |
m Link to Hollywood.com was dead; replaced with Archive link |
||
(39 intermediate revisions by 23 users not shown) | |||
Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{Short description|English composer and record producer}} |
|||
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} |
|||
{{infobox person/Wikidata |
{{infobox person/Wikidata |
||
| fetchwikidata=ALL |
| fetchwikidata=ALL |
||
Line 5: | Line 7: | ||
}} |
}} |
||
'''David Lord''' (born 1944<ref name="OUP">{{cite |
'''David Lord''' (born 1944<ref name="OUP">{{cite book |editor1=Kennedy, Joyce |editor2=Kennedy, Michael |editor3=Rutherford-Johnson, Tim |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Music |chapter=Lord, David Malcolm (b Oxford, 1944) |chapter-url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199578108.001.0001/acref-9780199578108-e-5563|date=21 May 2013 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-957810-8 |access-date=1 June 2019 |language=en }}</ref>) is an English [[composer]] and [[record producer]], known for his work with [[Peter Gabriel]],<ref name="Bright">{{cite book |last1=Bright |first1=Spencer |title=Peter Gabriel : an authorized biography |year=2000 |publisher=Pan |isbn=9780330370448 |edition=Updated and rev.}}</ref> [[the Korgis]] and [[XTC]]. |
||
== Career == |
== Career == |
||
⚫ | Lord was born in 1944 in [[Oxford]], England<ref name="OUP" /> and educated at the [[Royal Academy of Music]],<ref name="Cameron">{{cite web |last1=Cameron |first1=Amanda |title=Bath man who ran Belgrave Place brothel was famous music producer who worked with Peter Gabriel |url=http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Bath-man-ran-Belgrave-Place-brothel-famous-music/story-27767149-detail/story.html |website=[[Bath Chronicle]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151102134914/http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Bath-man-ran-Belgrave-Place-brothel-famous-music/story-27767149-detail/story.html |archive-date=2 November 2015 |date=9 September 2015}}</ref> under [[Richard Rodney Bennett]].<ref name="HiFiAns">{{cite journal |title=David Lord |journal=HiFi Answers |date=February 1989 |pages=62–63 |url=http://www.davidlord.xcellent-stuff.co.uk/hifianswers.html}}</ref> He worked as a [[Radio producer|producer]] for [[BBC Radio]] early in his career.<ref name="Cameron" /> |
||
⚫ | He worked as a composer; his song‐cycle, '' The Wife of Winter'', was written in 1968, for [[Janet Baker]]<ref name="OUP" /> while ''The History of the Flood'' (1969) has a libretto by [[John Heath-Stubbs]].<ref name="OUP" /> His 'cantata for children', "The Sea Journey", with a libretto by Michael Dennis Browne, is known to exist in two private pressings: one from the 1969 Farnham Festival,<ref name="RVG">{{cite web |title=DAVID LORD THE SEA JOURNEY PRIVATE PRESS FARNHAM FESTIVAL cello in chorus EO 252 |url=https://www.rootsvinylguide.com/ebay_items/david-lord-the-sea-journey-private-press-farnham-festival-cello-in-chorus-eo-252 |website=Roots Vinyl Guide |access-date=1 June 2019}}</ref> for which it was commissioned; the other recorded in 1982 by children from [[St. Catherine's British Embassy School]], Athens, Greece.<ref name="Discogs-TSJ">{{cite web |title=David Lord - The Sea Journey |url=https://www.discogs.com/David-Lord-The-Sea-Journey/release/10165955 |website=Discogs |date=3 October 1982 |access-date=1 June 2019 }}</ref> He also wrote a piece for [[Julian Bream]] and a test piece for a [[London Symphony Orchestra]] conductors' competition.<ref name="HiFiAns" /> |
||
⚫ | Lord was born in 1944 in [[Oxford]], England<ref name="OUP" /> and educated at the [[Royal Academy of Music]],<ref name="Cameron">{{cite web |last1=Cameron |first1=Amanda |title=Bath man who ran Belgrave Place brothel was famous music producer who worked with Peter Gabriel |url=http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Bath-man-ran-Belgrave-Place-brothel-famous-music/story-27767149-detail/story.html |website=[[Bath Chronicle]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151102134914/http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Bath-man-ran-Belgrave-Place-brothel-famous-music/story-27767149-detail/story.html |archive-date=2 November 2015 |date=9 September 2015}}</ref> under [[Richard Rodney Bennett]].<ref name="HiFiAns">{{cite journal |title=David Lord |journal=HiFi Answers |date=February 1989 |pages= |
||
⚫ | In 1981, Lord produced "[[Suffer the Children (song)|Suffer the Children]]", the first single by [[Tears for Fears]]. He is responsible for the string arrangements on the chart hits "[[Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime]]" by the Korgis,<ref>{{cite web | work = Song writing magazine |url=http://www.songwritingmagazine.co.uk/features/how-i-wrote-everybodys-got-to-learn-sometime-by-the-korgis-james-warren/14732 |title=How I wrote… 'Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime' by The Korgis | access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref> and "[[I'll Stand by You]]" by [[the Pretenders]]. He played a [[Prophet 5]] synthesiser on one track, "Just Good Friends", on the 1983 [[Peter Hammill]] album ''[[Patience (Peter Hammill album)|Patience]]'', for which he was also recording engineer. |
||
⚫ | He worked as a composer; his song‐cycle, '' The Wife of Winter'', was written in 1968, for [[Janet Baker]]<ref name="OUP" /> while ''The History of the Flood'' (1969) has a libretto by [[John Heath-Stubbs]].<ref name="OUP" /> His 'cantata for children', "The Sea Journey", with a libretto by Michael Dennis Browne, is known to exist in two private pressings: one from the 1969 Farnham Festival,<ref name="RVG">{{cite web |title=DAVID LORD THE SEA JOURNEY PRIVATE PRESS FARNHAM FESTIVAL cello in chorus EO 252 |url=https://www.rootsvinylguide.com/ebay_items/david-lord-the-sea-journey-private-press-farnham-festival-cello-in-chorus-eo-252 |website=Roots Vinyl Guide | |
||
⚫ | Since around 1970, Lord has lived in [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]], where he formerly operated Crescent Studios,<ref name="Cameron" /><ref name="Harada">{{cite magazine |last1=Harada |first1=Yoichi |title=Crescent Studios featuring David Lord |magazine=Sound Recording Magazine |date=October 1987 |issue=10 |url=http://www.davidlord.xcellent-stuff.co.uk/translation.html }}</ref><ref name="Dellar">{{cite magazine |last1=Dellar |first1=Fred |title=The Korgis: Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime |magazine=[[Smash Hits]] |date=24 July 1980 |url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/the-korgis-everybodys-got-to-learn-sometime-}}</ref> initially in his top-floor flat in [[Camden Crescent, Bath|Camden Crescent]], and subsequently in a building dating from around 1700, at 144 [[Walcot Street]].<ref name="SSound">{{cite magazine |title=Crescent Studios, Bath |magazine=[[Studio Sound]] |url=http://www.davidlord.xcellent-stuff.co.uk/studiosound.html |date=December 1986 |pages=64, 66, 68}}</ref> He closed the studio when a new road was built next to it.<ref name="SOS">{{cite magazine |title=David Lord: Enigma Variations |magazine= [[Sound on Sound]] |date=November 1996 |url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1996_articles/nov96/davidlord.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150606080615/http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1996_articles/nov96/davidlord.html |archive-date=6 June 2015}}</ref> |
||
⚫ | He is responsible for the string arrangements on the chart hits "[[Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime]]" by |
||
⚫ | Lord has appeared on ''[[The South Bank Show]]'', discussing his work producing [[Peter Gabriel]]'s [[Peter Gabriel (1982 album)|fourth, eponymously titled solo album]].<ref name="DeRiso">{{cite web |last1=DeRiso |first1=Nick |title=Revisiting Peter Gabriel's Journey Toward Success With 'Security' |url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/peter-gabriel-security-album/ |website=Ultimate Classic Rock |date=8 September 2017 |access-date=1 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref> |
||
⚫ | Since around 1970, Lord has lived in [[Bath]], where he formerly operated |
||
⚫ | Lord has appeared on ''[[The South Bank Show]]'', discussing his work producing [[Peter Gabriel]]'s fourth, eponymously titled |
||
== Conviction == |
== Conviction == |
||
⚫ | In 2015, Lord was convicted of [[Sexual Offences Act 2003|keeping a brothel]] after admitting making bookings and taking money for [[Sex worker|sex workers]] operating from his home. Noting there was no coercion involved, he was given a suspended prison sentence, made subject to a 7pm to 7am curfew for four months, and made to wear an [[Ankle monitor|electronic tag]] by Judge [[Geoffrey Mercer]] QC, at [[Bristol Crown Court]].<ref name="Hollywood">{{cite web |title=Record producer David Lord dodges jail over brothel |url=http://www.hollywood.com/general/record-producer-david-lord-dodges-jail-over-brothel-60475941/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190601152432/https://www.hollywood.com/general/record-producer-david-lord-dodges-jail-over-brothel-60475941/ |website=Hollywood.com |archive-date=1 June 2019 |access-date=8 September 2024}}</ref> |
||
⚫ | In 2015, Lord was convicted of [[Sexual Offences Act 2003|keeping a brothel]] |
||
==Discography == |
==Discography == |
||
Albums produced or co-produced by Lord include: |
Albums produced or co-produced by Lord include: |
||
* [[The Korgis]] |
* [[The Korgis]] – ''[[Dumb Waiters]]'' (1980)<ref name="TheKorgis">{{cite web |title=The Korgis: About their music and history |url=http://www.thekorgis.com/about-the-korgis/ |website=www.thekorgis.com |access-date=1 June 2019 |archive-date=9 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170609070145/http://www.thekorgis.com/about-the-korgis/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
||
* The Korgis |
* The Korgis – ''[[Sticky George]]'' (1981) |
||
* [[Peter Gabriel]] |
* [[Peter Gabriel]] – ''[[Peter Gabriel (1982 album)|Peter Gabriel]]'' (1982) |
||
* [[Roy Harper]] |
* [[Roy Harper (singer)|Roy Harper]] – ''[[Work of Heart]]'' (1982)<ref name="ProgArchives-WoH">{{cite web |title=ROY HARPER - The Roy Harper Band: Work Of Heart (1982) |url=http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=18420 |website=Prog Archives |access-date=1 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref> |
||
* [[The Icicle Works]] – ''[[The Icicle Works (album)|The Icicle Works]]'' (1984) |
|||
* [[XTC]] - ''[[The Big Express]]'' (1984)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Twomey |first1=Chris |title=XTC: Chalkhills and Children |year=1992 |publisher=[[Omnibus Press]] |isbn=9780711927582 |page=136}}</ref> |
|||
* [[ |
* [[XTC]] – ''[[The Big Express]]'' (1984)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Twomey |first1=Chris |title=XTC: Chalkhills and Children |year=1992 |publisher=[[Omnibus Press]] |isbn=9780711927582 |page=[https://archive.org/details/xtcchalkhillschi00twom/page/136 136] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/xtcchalkhillschi00twom/page/136 }}</ref> |
||
*[[Jean-Michel Jarre|Jean Michel Jarre]] - ''[[Zoolook]]'' ( 1984) |
|||
⚫ | |||
* [[Peter Blegvad]] - ''[[Knights Like This]]'' (1985) |
|||
⚫ | * Icehouse |
||
* [[ |
* [[M + M]] – ''[[The World Is a Ball]]'' (1986)<ref name="Richler">{{cite journal |last1=Richler |first1=Daniel |title=M+M The World Is a Ball |journal=Canadian Musician |date=October 1985 |pages=30– |url=http://www.davidlord.xcellent-stuff.co.uk/canadian.html}}</ref> |
||
⚫ | |||
⚫ | * Icehouse – ''[[Man of Colours]]'' (1987)<ref name="vanderMeer">{{cite web |last1=van der Meer |first1=Dan |title=It's Been Thirty Years Since Man Of Colours Was Released |url=https://www.triplem.com.au/story/its-been-thirty-years-since-man-of-colours-was-released-58769 |website=Triple M |access-date=1 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref> |
||
* [[The Korgis|Andy Davis]] – ''[[Clevedon Pier (album)|Clevedon Pier]]'' (1989) |
|||
* [[Peter Hammill]] – ''[[Fireships (album)|Fireships]]'' (1992)<ref>{{cite web |first1=Peter |last1=Hammill |title=Peter Hammill Fireships CD |url=https://cargorecordsdirect.co.uk/products/peter-hammill-fireships |website=Cargo Records Direct |quote=I produced it in conjunction with David Lord and his wonderful orchestral arrangements are well to the fore. |access-date=1 September 2019 }}{{Dead link|date=January 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> |
|||
* [[David Ferguson (composer)|David Ferguson]] – ''The View from Now'' (1998)<ref name="CHAN9679">{{cite web |title=Chandos Records Classical Music CDs and MP3 Downloads OnLine |url=https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%209679 |website=Chandos Records |access-date=1 June 2019}}</ref> |
|||
== References == |
== References == |
||
Line 44: | Line 48: | ||
* {{Official website}} |
* {{Official website}} |
||
* {{IMDb name|nm7846335}} |
* {{IMDb name|nm7846335}} |
||
* [https://www.universaledition.com/david-lord-441 |
* [https://www.universaledition.com/david-lord-441 Universal Edition] - sheet music for Lord's compositions |
||
* [http://www.theeuropeans.co.uk/Davidlord.htm 'The Europeans' interview] (2015) |
* [http://www.theeuropeans.co.uk/Davidlord.htm 'The Europeans' interview] (2015) |
||
⚫ | |||
{{Authority control}} |
{{Authority control}} |
||
⚫ | |||
[[Category:English record producers]] |
[[Category:English record producers]] |
||
[[Category:English male composers]] |
|||
[[Category:People convicted of sex crimes]] |
[[Category:People convicted of sex crimes]] |
||
[[Category:1944 births]] |
[[Category:1944 births]] |
||
Line 60: | Line 65: | ||
[[Category:BBC radio producers]] |
[[Category:BBC radio producers]] |
||
[[Category:20th-century English composers]] |
[[Category:20th-century English composers]] |
||
[[Category:20th-century English male musicians]] |
Latest revision as of 14:57, 8 September 2024
David Lord | |
---|---|
Born | 1944 (age 80–81) Oxford |
Alma mater | |
Occupation | Record producer, composer |
Website | http://www.dlord.co.uk/ |
David Lord (born 1944[1]) is an English composer and record producer, known for his work with Peter Gabriel,[2] the Korgis and XTC.
Career
[edit]Lord was born in 1944 in Oxford, England[1] and educated at the Royal Academy of Music,[3] under Richard Rodney Bennett.[4] He worked as a producer for BBC Radio early in his career.[3]
He worked as a composer; his song‐cycle, The Wife of Winter, was written in 1968, for Janet Baker[1] while The History of the Flood (1969) has a libretto by John Heath-Stubbs.[1] His 'cantata for children', "The Sea Journey", with a libretto by Michael Dennis Browne, is known to exist in two private pressings: one from the 1969 Farnham Festival,[5] for which it was commissioned; the other recorded in 1982 by children from St. Catherine's British Embassy School, Athens, Greece.[6] He also wrote a piece for Julian Bream and a test piece for a London Symphony Orchestra conductors' competition.[4]
In 1981, Lord produced "Suffer the Children", the first single by Tears for Fears. He is responsible for the string arrangements on the chart hits "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" by the Korgis,[7] and "I'll Stand by You" by the Pretenders. He played a Prophet 5 synthesiser on one track, "Just Good Friends", on the 1983 Peter Hammill album Patience, for which he was also recording engineer.
Since around 1970, Lord has lived in Bath, where he formerly operated Crescent Studios,[3][8][9] initially in his top-floor flat in Camden Crescent, and subsequently in a building dating from around 1700, at 144 Walcot Street.[10] He closed the studio when a new road was built next to it.[11]
Lord has appeared on The South Bank Show, discussing his work producing Peter Gabriel's fourth, eponymously titled solo album.[12]
Conviction
[edit]In 2015, Lord was convicted of keeping a brothel after admitting making bookings and taking money for sex workers operating from his home. Noting there was no coercion involved, he was given a suspended prison sentence, made subject to a 7pm to 7am curfew for four months, and made to wear an electronic tag by Judge Geoffrey Mercer QC, at Bristol Crown Court.[13]
Discography
[edit]Albums produced or co-produced by Lord include:
- The Korgis – Dumb Waiters (1980)[14]
- The Korgis – Sticky George (1981)
- Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel (1982)
- Roy Harper – Work of Heart (1982)[15]
- The Icicle Works – The Icicle Works (1984)
- XTC – The Big Express (1984)[16]
- Jean Michel Jarre - Zoolook ( 1984)
- Peter Blegvad - Knights Like This (1985)
- M + M – The World Is a Ball (1986)[17]
- Icehouse – Measure for Measure (1986)[11]
- Icehouse – Man of Colours (1987)[18]
- Andy Davis – Clevedon Pier (1989)
- Peter Hammill – Fireships (1992)[19]
- David Ferguson – The View from Now (1998)[20]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Kennedy, Joyce; Kennedy, Michael; Rutherford-Johnson, Tim, eds. (21 May 2013). "Lord, David Malcolm (b Oxford, 1944)". The Oxford Dictionary of Music. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-957810-8. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ Bright, Spencer (2000). Peter Gabriel : an authorized biography (Updated and rev. ed.). Pan. ISBN 9780330370448.
- ^ a b c Cameron, Amanda (9 September 2015). "Bath man who ran Belgrave Place brothel was famous music producer who worked with Peter Gabriel". Bath Chronicle. Archived from the original on 2 November 2015.
- ^ a b "David Lord". HiFi Answers: 62–63. February 1989.
- ^ "DAVID LORD THE SEA JOURNEY PRIVATE PRESS FARNHAM FESTIVAL cello in chorus EO 252". Roots Vinyl Guide. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ "David Lord - The Sea Journey". Discogs. 3 October 1982. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ "How I wrote… 'Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime' by The Korgis". Song writing magazine. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
- ^ Harada, Yoichi (October 1987). "Crescent Studios featuring David Lord". Sound Recording Magazine. No. 10.
- ^ Dellar, Fred (24 July 1980). "The Korgis: Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime". Smash Hits.
- ^ "Crescent Studios, Bath". Studio Sound. December 1986. pp. 64, 66, 68.
- ^ a b "David Lord: Enigma Variations". Sound on Sound. November 1996. Archived from the original on 6 June 2015.
- ^ DeRiso, Nick (8 September 2017). "Revisiting Peter Gabriel's Journey Toward Success With 'Security'". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ "Record producer David Lord dodges jail over brothel". Hollywood.com. Archived from the original on 1 June 2019. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
- ^ "The Korgis: About their music and history". www.thekorgis.com. Archived from the original on 9 June 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ "ROY HARPER - The Roy Harper Band: Work Of Heart (1982)". Prog Archives. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ Twomey, Chris (1992). XTC: Chalkhills and Children. Omnibus Press. p. 136. ISBN 9780711927582.
- ^ Richler, Daniel (October 1985). "M+M The World Is a Ball". Canadian Musician: 30–.
- ^ van der Meer, Dan. "It's Been Thirty Years Since Man Of Colours Was Released". Triple M. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ Hammill, Peter. "Peter Hammill Fireships CD". Cargo Records Direct. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
I produced it in conjunction with David Lord and his wonderful orchestral arrangements are well to the fore.
[permanent dead link ] - ^ "Chandos Records Classical Music CDs and MP3 Downloads OnLine". Chandos Records. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- David Lord at IMDb
- Universal Edition - sheet music for Lord's compositions
- 'The Europeans' interview (2015)