Trevor Horn Producer Interview at SARM Studios - Part One 

not realy , he's the guy sucking the dick of the best of the bands, acting like he made them good.

I couldn't have stated it better myself!

He's up there, but Arif Mardin (RIP) and Nile Rodgers are very special too. Arif Mardin's production on Aretha Franklin's 1970s pop records is 😘 and so many other great records but then to produce Chaka Khan and Scritti Politti with as much studio invention as Trevor Horn when he was 17 years older is impressive.

not realy, he's the guy sucking the best of the era, pretending he made them great.

@HighHopesBass I've read some 80's articles about Lipson. Impressive career. The bassline on FGTH's Rage Hard is epic. Shook me to the core.

Those are good tracks, but Trevor Horn's top five productions that blew everyone's minds are: "Poison Arrow" by ABC (1982), "Buffalo Gals" by Malcolm McLaren (1983), "Owner of a Lonely Heart" by Yes (1983), "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood" (1984), and "Slave to the Rhythm" by Grace Jones (1985). They talk about these in the interview, pure gold.

Yes, it seems like he did the incredible "Buffalo Gals" and then moved on. Trevor Horn says he enjoys working with musicians better than himself, and I'm not sure Malcolm McLaren and scratching teams qualify.

The small monitors are definitely Yamaha NS-10s flipped on their sides. The bigger ones in the back might be Dynaudios.

Love the cowbell sound. In fact I've created a playlist on my channel with songs featuring the electronic cowbell sound.

maybe, the vision George Clinton had for p-funk and all those records from rock-funk to disco-funk is remarkable. all are 'dreamed to perfection' and with innovative mixes and tons of soulful and skilled, immensely talented sidemen, highly eccentric advanced vocal arrangements and sophisticated horn arrangements played by the best horn players ever in the U.S. maceo parker, fred wesley, and the brecker brothers. Manfred Eicher at ECM has done immaculate work for decades on exquisite, esoteric jazz records with the best engineer and at the finest studios in the world: Jan-Erik Kongshaug was behind the boards on 700 sterling breathtaking cohesive conceptual albums featuring musicians far more talented than Trevor Horn has ever worked with in his entire life. and Trevor has worked with the best, but not as talented as Manfred has with those sensitive virtuosos at ecm records; Metheny, deJohnette, Vitous, Rypdal and on and on. Brian Eno has done timeless records in pop new wave, talking heads, ambient Apollo, Textures, etc., and sold out worldwide tours and stadium arenas with his rock production of U2's most acclaimed album The Joshua Tree. we'll leave out his time producing David Bowie THAT important Bowie/Eno trilogy WAS JUST THEM TWO PLAYING AROUND. But what do I know, my favorite producer of all time is Gary Katz, why? because no Steely Dan record was any good for me after his name stopped appearing on them, and he supposedly did nothing. Maybe Mutt Lange is the best of all then and i'll end it there. 25 million sold with Shania, 25 million sold with ac/dc, and 25 million sold in pop rock with billy ocean, heart, huey lewis, and bryan adams, let's not include the 35 million Mutt sold with def leppard since you may be right...uncle Trev and Q are the greatest, beats me, who really knows. does anybody really know what time it is? there you go; caribou's jim guerico, or maurice white, that's rhythm, percussion, funk, disco, ballads, RnB, with string arranging, seminal ground-breaking, peerless horn arranging, soul singing with harmony vocals and masterful engineering equal to anything Trevor ever did with George Massenburg by his side, or....or....or....LOL.

but Quincy Jones is most an arrangeur than a producer...Bruce Sweden is a producer in this case

​@@cameron_fairchild I'd add Arif Mardin. To go from producing Aretha Franklin's 1970s pop perfection to Chaka Khan and Scritti Politti, as adventurous sonically as Trevor Horn even though he was 17 years older is impressive. Nile Rodgers isn't as more-More-MORE, but he's another great producer. His closest production to Trevor Horn's bombastic excess is his remix of "The Reflex" by Duran Duran. It's great to follow producers from band to band across recordings to hear their contribution.

@@skierpage It's great to follow producers from band to band across recordings to hear their contribution. THAT PART.

@@frantic3706 no, Bruce Swedien is the recording engineer and Quincy Jones has been more a producer than arranger for decades. Read their Wikipedia articles. "Swedien won 5 Grammy Awards for Best Engineered Album for his work with Jackson and Jones." Quincy Jones was credited for rhythm and vocal arrangements on a few songs on Off the Wall and Thriller, while others like Jerry Hey did what's typically considered "arrangements": writing out multiple horn and string parts for session musicians to play; the great songwriter Rod Temperton came up with the arrangements of all the parts of his songs.

There's sampling to create new instruments and sounds, and then there's sampling to collage an existing recording into your track. The latter peaked in 1989 with 3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul and Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys.

what's your point?

Seal is probably one of the few artists who have continuously worked with Trevor Horn.... and the albums sadly became increasingly boring!!

We have an interview with Alan Parsons..