ZIt is the product behind some of the most dear and privacy British pop of the 1980s, from Elvis Costilo to the midnight contestants and tears explode, Clav Langer looks surprisingly bad in predicting what he will do well. He recalls, “I was invited to work with Madonna, soon from the holiday.” “I went to see her in the music machine and did not get it. I still don’t get it.” So she refused. When you put Dexys on Eileen with Langer behind the mixing office, he didn’t think it would be a great success. “I was completely wrong. I had no faith.”
It did not reach No. 1 as the first and became the best -selling song in 1982, and it is only one of the many victories he achieved with the production partner Alan and Winstanley. Together, they formed a generation of British pop with David Boy, Mick Jagger and Ladid Cole, as well as eight complete albums with madness over five decades.
He was also involved with his own band, and he is now a front -year -old man in the Clang collection, whose second album of Guitar Pop, New Clang, next month. It reflects “coercion of writing songs, expressing myself and working with a little higher,” says Lanjar on a cup of tea in his home in Hukni, London.
He knows he is lucky because he did any of them. His Polish father, who was Jewish, fled the Nazis – “Tell him,” Go to the right … “he took a left and did not see his parents or his brother again,” – then to the United Kingdom and joins the British Royal Air Force, where he met the mother of Langer . Langer’s childhood in London put it in the center “Unbelievable Time for Music. I dropped the 13 -year -old acid and saw a cream, Jimmy Hendricks and the Xeplin hand in a bar called Klooks Kleek. We did not have tickets for the Joblin committees in Albert Hall, but we thought that if six of us tried Running, four of us will do it – and we did it.
He left Lanjar for the School of Arts in Canterbury, where Ian was a league. He formed his first group, Deaf School, at the Liverpool School of Art in 1974, inspired by the Dury’s Pre-Blockheads Kilburn and The High Roads. “We were very theatrical characters. A little sparks, a little Roxy.” After the villain arrived, “We lost all the momentum,” but they gathered a group of famous fans: like Julian Cope, Sujz, Beit Burns and Steve String. “Kevin Roland came to the wearing of our clothes in Birmingham before the start of the Dexys Midnight runners. Then a great in Japan began our crew on the road and included Bill Dramund who formed KLF, Holly Johnson who started Franki to go to Hollywood and Ian Brodi who became lightning seeds. I joined. [as guitarist] Some others went on tears or Siouxsie and Banshees. “
In the deaf school, Lancer made clear attention to the band’s producers, and their techniques remembered when he asked north London from London to record them just as they changed their name to madness. “I was very tense when I went to their rehearsal room, which holds four packages of beer,” he confessed, “but as soon as I heard my girl I knew this was very special. From then every record was a blow. They were ambitious and a kind of riot Simple criticism of the studio suddenly, and if there is any wine about it, it will disappear soon. “
For Nutty Boys album that for the first time in 1979, One Step Beyond, Langer cooperated with the most experienced engineer in Winstanley, and soon put a way to work where Winstanley dealt with the technical side while Langer was studying with the team You know, “Do we need a trumpet?”
The wonderful SMASH bonus was registered from the wonderful SUPERP [Cope] He spent four hours the difference about the guitar tendon. “The second album for Dexys Too-RYE-AAY was colored, as the band was” wearing all the clothes and making movements as if it were annoyed. I felt as if you were installed on the rehearsal room wall. It was strong. “
Langer music himself was written for another classic, the building of ships, a success during the Falkland era of Robert White later recorded by Elvis Costilo, who wrote the lyrics. He says: “I tried to write something beautiful for Robert, but I and the number of different friends tried to reach the words for him and they were nonsense.” “I collided with Aelvis at a party and after a few days he had words.”
Work Winstanley worked quickly. “Once, we were in the same studio as Trevor Horn and we did the album Elvis completely goodbye to the world in the three weeks spent by Trevor on Snare Sound [Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s] Two tribes. “Regardless of simplicity, he does not feel that they have any specific Midas touch.” Our mission was to give Hit Record and we were rolling with it. Sometimes you are a little angry and talk about it. “
Moressy was another customer, and “working with him was great, because he did not write his own music, so I can either participate in writing songs [including November Spawned a Monster] Or its formation. But he will invite the guests to the studio and then disappear to his room. I must take care of them, think, “Who are these people?”
Langers Zenith’s march was producing Boy and Jagger No. 1 dance in the street and the first number in the past classic Absolute beginners On the same day in 1985. “Everything is fine, Make?” For divorced beginners, Bowie has loudly. He said, “There is one line that I can do better.” We return this and the record ends. It looked completely majestic. We taught us. skiing. New Year’s Eve. With other people, he always did, but sometimes I get it for an hour or so, and we just drink and talk. He was smart and funny, and he knew what he was doing. Then I thought, “Where do I go next?”
In the nineties of the last century, Langer Winstani demonstrated themselves into the sky that turned to the end of the hook, which was purchased from David Gilmore, to the best studio equipped in Europe. Next, Bush’s 1994 album Sixteen Stone charging 6 million copies in the United States. “Nervana Light was, but 14 -year -old girls loved them completely. I paid all my real estate bets.”
After working later with Blur, Catatonia, A-Ha, and “Spending more time before with our families”, the last full album of the duo together was Madness’s 2009 The Liberty of Norton Folgate. Langer also joined a deaf school that was repaired, but he was drifting into alcohol, which is frankly facing in songs on New Clang.
“I always wanted to drink a drink at 6 pm to listen and reassess everything with alcohol inside me,” he says. “A bottle of wine from the confusion office – not very soon if you expel it and practice everything. The problem is that it is progressive, then kill you. After I stopped working, I entered myself in the right pickle that needed Vodka in my coffee at 11 am just because I feel I am normal. So I went to see someone to help. “
Now three years, he throws Langers his new energy in the Clang group. “I don’t sit thinking about if there is little regret because I did not do the second album of Foo Fighters,” he confesses. “I was transferred to the Capitol building in Los Angeles to meet Dave Groll, but then I suggested that the drums play in the record instead of the Drams player who had at the time,” he revealed. “I got out, knowing that I will blow it up, but I do not regret what I said.” This time, however, his instincts were correct: when the color and shape went to a double platinum, he noticed that the drama player on all two tracks except two tracks was Grohl.