Stephen Lipson

In fact, there's a lot of people involved in this album that... were quite new on the scene at the time.

One of the engineers was Steve Lipson who went on to produce Annie Lennox's solo album Diva.

He's done loads of other projects as well but I know that's one that people who are Bonnie Tyler fans are probably likely to be familiar with.

So we've got to the point now where I'm recording in October everything that you've just heard I recorded six months ago.

This is a, this is a, a no-brainer really because like from a [laughs] from a, the position of like, again, like recording music, talking about like making recorded music, the art of making recorded music, I think Slave to the Rhythm is kinda, it's sort of kind of universally considered a [laughs] kind of high water mark of a certain version of it.

I mean, it was really, as a production, it's, uh, it's Trevor Horn and Stephen Lipson, um, who obviously are responsible for some incredible, absolutely mind-blowing uses of technology to bring us some mind-expanding recordings and records.

Um, but this one in particular, it's, it's-- there's so many things about it.

I mean, it's a, it's a, the, the, the song that we hear on the radio, Slave to the Rhythm, it's, it's, it's one, it's the single, and I think that basically there's a, the album is a sort of like a, a kind of...

So, so it, it, it's interesting.

And, and then Steven Lipson-

Yeah

...

Hmm

... for the final album.

And Steven Lipson, talking about Steven Lipson again, uh, incredible.

Steven Lipson produced, uh, I don't know if he was the main producer, but he worked on Sally Oldfield albums.

And then he listened to the album.

But, you know, the person that gave me the career was Steve Lipson, the producer.

So Steve had done all of Annie Lennox's stuff, who I loved.

She loved you.

That was Leave Right Now.

Right.

And the guy said, I mean, you'll know who he is, said, this is why I love Steve Lipson.

I mean, I call him Lippo.

Totally.

And I remember when we were mixing it, cause a lot of it's due to a guy called Steve Lipson, you know, it was brilliant engineer, but brilliant too.

Cause he came up with the guitar part.

Um, I always said this has got to be falling off a cliff at all times.

He keeps that riff in, 'cause version three, now he gets his mate from Art of Noise, JJ Jeczalik.

He gets his production assistant, who we've spoken of before, Stephen Lipson, and a bloke called Andy Richards, keyboard and producer extraordinaire.

He gets them along.

They try and do it.

In Trevor Horn's mind, it doesn't go well, so he leaves the session and he tells Lipson, he says, "Wipe it.

We're gonna have to start again." But Stephen Lipson doesn't wipe it.

Oh.

Richards and Lipson continue to work on it.