BAPTISM OF FIRE

A year living and working with Duran Duran

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Ian Little, a young musical novice, lucked into minding Roxy Music's studio while the band were on the road. By the time they returned, he had a record contract and was promoted to production assistant for their swansong Avalon. And that's just the beginning.Duran Duran had ambitions to become the biggest band in the world, and chose Ian to produce the album that made it happen. Travel with Ian and the band to Sri Lanka, the south of France, New York, Monserrat and Sydney, to create Seven And The Ragged Tiger, one of the defining albums of the 1980s.This remarkable book, with a foreword by Hazel O'Connor, tells the story of a meteoric rise, making a massive hit album under pressure (encountering Bowie, Dylan, McCartney and other legends along the way), a too-much-too-soon spiral into addiction and homelessness in the years that followed, the fight to get life back on track, and the spiritual growth along the way.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-04-21
Mått:140 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt:710 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Astral Horizon Press
ISBN:9781916039643

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Ian Little was found in a phonebox one or two days after his birth and adopted and raised by a loving family near Croydon in the southeast suburbs of London. He went to art school in Kingston-upon-Thames and initially became an architectural apprentice and worked with the band Supertramp on the staging of their Breakfast In America world tour. This led to working as a studio engineer on Roxy Music's swansong album Avalon, as well as putting out his own music under the name New Asia. With a growing reputation in music, he produced Duran Duran's biggest album Seven And The Ragged Tiger and the non-album smash Is There Something I Should Know. Following this, he produced an album by Sparks and worked with Belouise Some, but a spiral of addiction led to a long stint homeless in New York. His recent years have been spent recovering from poor physical health and is now back in London in the producer's chair. His memoir Baptism Of Fire (Astral Horizon Press, 2022) is his first book.

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"A first-hand account of the creative, technical, and human chemistry as Duran Duran record their masterpiece": Giorgio Moroder

Innehållsförteckning

CONTENTSIntroduction By Hazel O'Connor 5Preface 71 From Economy To First Class: Time In Sri Lanka With Simon Le Bon 132 My First Musical Adventure: Supertramp In LA 233 Gallery Studios & Real Beginnings 334 Working At Gallery & Learning To Produce 415 The Making Of Avalon And Jealous Guy 496 How I Started Working With Duran Duran 697 Is There Something I Should Know? 758 Mixing Is There Something I Should Know? 879 Ian Little - The Early Years 9510 The Perfection Of Being 10111 Crisis, What Crisis? 11312 Writing & Recording With Duran Duran: South Of France, Spring 1983 11713 Main Album Recording At Air Studios: Montserrat, Summer 1983 13514 Working On Island Time 15315 Mixing Seven And The Ragged Tiger 16516 Seven And The Ragged Tiger Side One 17517 Seven And The Ragged Tiger Side Two 19318 Production Principals 20319 My Fall From Grace 20720 Take My Breath Away Giorgio Moroder, Sparks & LA 21521 Homeless In New York City & New Beginnings 221Acknowledgements 231Music Outreach Project: A Brief Synopsis 235Duran Duran Discography 1981 To 1985 Compiled By Steve Thorpe 237