Steve Lillywhite (born 1955) is a Grammy Award-winning English music producer.
Lillywhite entered the music industry in 1972, when he worked as a tape operator for Polygram. He produced a demo recording for the band Ultravox, which led to them being offered a recording contract with Island Records. Lillywhite soon joined Island as a staff producer, where he worked with many of the leading New Wave artists. Its first massive commercial success was...
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Steve Lillywhite (born 1955) is a Grammy Award-winning English music producer.
Lillywhite entered the music industry in 1972, when he worked as a tape operator for Polygram. He produced a demo recording for the band Ultravox, which led to them being offered a recording contract with Island Records. Lillywhite soon joined Island as a staff producer, where he worked with many of the leading New Wave artists. Its first massive commercial success was with Siouxsie & the Banshees in August 1978 after producing their first single (Hong Kong garden, featuring an original hook played by a metallophone).
In 1980, Lillywhite produced Peter Gabriel (III or Melt), notable for its aggressive sound, achieved in part by the absence of cymbals throughout the album. The same year, he produced The Psychedelic Furs debut as well as Boy, the debut album of the then practically unknown U2. Lillywhite went on to produce U2's October and War, of which the latter proved to be the band's major breakthrough....
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