Paul White talks to Tony Visconti about his career, his production methods and his plans for the future.

Record Producer

The man who turned the music of Duran Duran, Kajagoogoo, Human League and Magazine into hits, discloses his hit-making formulae, recording methods and well-equipped home studio.

Synth-pioneers Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark talk to Dan Goldstein about the twists and turns in their musical development, and how they managed to make their new album, Junk Culture, sound more acoustic through the use of computer instruments.

Difford and Tillbrook

squeezed out

In the first of a series, Fred Dellar looks at the chequered career of Gus Dudgeon.

Bowie's Dennis Davis and George Murray

Dennis Davis and George Murray chat to Ralph Denyer on their rhythmic station in the Bowie band.

Jon Tiven talks to Gus Dudgeon about Elton, Bowie and recording in general.

Hugh Padgham has worked with some of the best contemporary artists - The Police, Genesis, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Hall & Oates, and Phil Collins, to name but a few - and has earned his place in the recording industry history books through his sensitive, innovative, and inspired sound engineering and production work. How did he do it? Brian Jacobs finds out...

HM from the control room chair.

Mixing Desk

Wise words from the master of modern production

Tony Visconti's studio, Good Earth, in the heart of London's West End owes its success to a combination of the right services and good management.

Eight top pop players and producers discuss the necessity of notation. Richard Walmsley chairs the debate

H&SR names the winners and Mark Fishlock reports on the proceedings.

Betteridge back again, with a step-by-step guide to the mysteries of mike technique.

More soft poop scoops from the investigative mind of Adrian Deevoy

The Pepys of the music world writes another chapter

You Never Knew About David Bowie

Sex, decadent Rock Stars and Mediterranean Batik — it's all here for your delectation

Who's in, who's out, where, why, and what. What?

Castleridge Studios

H&SR takes a look at its first Australian studio. The locals couldn't give a Castleridgexxx for anything else.

Then After A Few Years I Think I'll Be A Producer

making a career of knob twiddling

A special 10th anniversary Diary hot from the lips of Adrian Deevoy