Record producer Shel Talmy speaks onstage at The Record Theater: A Tribute To Sir George Martin at The GRAMMY Museum on April 11, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. Rebecca Sapp/WireImage
Shel Talmy, a prolific and influential producer who oversaw a number of the most iconic songs in rock historical past, has died on the age of 87.
Talmy’s publicist confirmed the information, saying that he handed away on Wednesday (Nov. 13) at his Los Angeles as a consequence of problems from a stroke.
Born Sheldon Talmy in Chicago in 1937, an early love of music noticed him embark upon a profession as a tv recording engineer at Los Angeles’ Conway Studios. “Three or four days later I was an engineer,” he instructed Mix journal in 1990. “I had always liked technical things, and I just took to it.”
Working with artists corresponding to Gary Paxton, The Castells, and legendary The Wrecking Crew, Talmy moved to the U.Okay. within the early Sixties the place he established himself as one of many extra distinguished producers within the rock style due to his involvement with a number of the extra influential teams of the period.
Talmy’s credit embody basic singles from The Kinks (together with “You Really Got Me”, “All Day and All of the Night”, and “Waterloo Sunet”), The Who (“My Generation”, “I Can’t Explain”, “The Kids Are Alright”), and Australian expats The Easybeats, helming their observe “Friday on My Mind”.
Talmy’s discography additionally included “I Pity the Fool”, recorded by the Manish Boys, which featured an 18-year-old singer names David Jones – who would later turn into identified higher as David Bowie. Other credit embody singles and albums for Manfred Mann, Roy Harper, Pentangle, Small Faces, and punk veterans The Damned.
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In 1963, Talmy additionally employed legendary producer Glyn Johns as an engineer, and labored with Jimmy Page as a session engineer earlier than Page joined The Yardbirds in 1966 and co-founded Led Zeppelin in 1968.
In a press release, Talmy’s archivist and historian Alec Palao claimed he “was truly a one-off”.
“Even the briefest survey of the most essential pop and rock recordings of the 1960s would need to include something Shel produced, and that in itself is an incredibly meaningful legacy,” Palao mentioned.
