Ian Levine

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Ian Levine
Born
Ian Geoffrey Levine

(1953-06-22) 22 June 1953 (age 71)
Blackpool, Lancashire, England
Education Arnold House School
Occupation(s) Disc jockey, record producer, songwriter
Years active1971–present
Known for Blackpool Mecca, Heaven, Record Shack Records, Motorcity Records

Ian Geoffrey Levine (born 22 June 1953) [1] is a British songwriter, producer, and DJ. A moderniser of Northern soul music in the UK, and a developer of the style of hi-NRG, he has written and produced records with sales totalling over 40 million. [2] Levine is known as a fan of the long-running television show Doctor Who . [3]

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Early and personal life

Levine was born into a Jewish family; his parents owned and ran the "Lemon Tree" complex in Blackpool, including its casino and nightclub. [4] Levine is openly gay. [5] He suffered a major stroke in July 2014, leaving him with severely limited movement on the left side of his body. [6] [7]

Levine spent decades tracking down 3,000 of his relatives. He has organised several meetings with hundreds of family members over the years, which have been covered by media outlets. Levine has written books about his genealogy search. [8] [9]

Career

Disc jockey

Levine began collecting Motown records from the age of 13, building a collection from UK record shops and those his family visited on holidays to Miami and New Orleans. [4] He later became an avid collector of soul, R&B, and Northern soul. [2] [4] After his parents emigrated to the Caribbean in 1979, Levine sold most of his records to fund a house purchase in London. [2]

Having attended some early Northern soul all-nighters at "The Twisted Wheel" nightclub in Manchester with DJ Les Cokell, [2] [4] after leaving school in 1971 he became a disc jockey at the Blackpool Mecca with Tony Jebb. [10] [2] [4] Levine joined other DJs in travelling to Stoke on Trent to join the Northern soul all-nighter "Torch", which was quickly shut down but was the fore runner of the Wigan Casino events, which Levine DJ'ed on the 3rd all-nighter. [4] Working with fellow DJ Colin Curtis, the pair was responsible for guiding the Northern Soul scene away from its oldies-only policy and towards modern soul and disco. [2] [4] This resulted in BBC Radio 1's DJ John Peel travelling to Blackpool to interview Levine. [2]

Opening on Dec 6, 1979, Levine became the club's first resident DJ at London's gay disco Heaven on its set-up, [2] [10] and remained there through almost all of the 1980s. He finally left in 1989. [2] [5] Levine was also the first UK-born DJs to mix records. [11]

Becoming a songwriter and producer

In 1973, Levine caught notice when he turned Robert Knight's "Love on a Mountain Top" into a UK Top 10 hit, leading to him assisting Dave McAleer in compiling Solid Soul Sensations the following year, which was released on the British Disco Demand label and reached No. 30 on the UK Albums Chart. [12] With his father's investment, he travelled to New York City and co-produced Reaching for the Best with girl group the Exciters, which reached No. 31 on the UK Singles Chart selling 80,000 records. [2] This allowed Levine to then travel to Chicago, where he auditioned and signed three unknown singers: Postman L.J. Johnson, Barbara Pennington, and Evelyn Thomas. Thomas and Johnson's debut records would both chart in the UK Top 30, [13] [14] ensuring them both an appearance on Top Of The Pops on Feb 19, 1976. [15] [16] Barbara Pennington would enjoy a big disco hit in the U.S.A. the following year with "24 Hours a Day" (No. 4 Billboard Disco Charts) [17] as would James Wells whose "My Claim to Fame" reached the same position in 1978. [18] Following a string of albums on artists such as Evelyn Thomas, Barbara Pennington, L. J. Johnson, Doris Jones, Tyrone Ashley, Eastbound Expressway, and Seventh Avenue, towards the end of 1979, Levine's record productions came to a halt when he had 4 album deals fall through due to demise of disco, leaving him indebted due to the high production costs. [19]

Hi-NRG and Pop

According to Levine, in 1983, the London-based record shop Record Shack offered Levine £2,000 to set up a new joint-venture record label, Record Shack Records [2] , though Record Shack had bbeen distributing records at least as far back as 1980. [20] Through friend Jean-Philippe Iliesco, [21] he used his Trident Studios, and reformed his songwriting partnership with Fiachra Trench after his 3-year recording hiatus.

The first record from the label was "So Many Men, So Little Time" by Miquel Brown, [22] which sold two million copies and got to number 2 on the American Dance Club Songs chart. [2] This was quickly followed by "High Energy" by Evelyn Thomas, Levine's biggest hit, selling more than 7 mio. copies worldwide. [23] [24] Several other dance singles followed, before the partnership with Record Shack ended in 1985.

After several more releases on various labels throughout 1986, Levine set up his own Nightmare Records in December, [25] releasing 90 Hi-NRG singles over the next 3 years. [26] He also mixed numerous dance-pop hits for a variety of artists, including Pet Shop Boys, Bucks Fizz, Erasure, Kim Wilde, Bronski Beat, Amanda Lear, Bananarama, Tiffany, Dollar, and Hazell Dean. [2]

Motorcity Records

It was during his Nightmare Records period that Levine got to work with former Motown singer Kim Weston in 1987, a collaboration that lead Levine to record several other ex-Motown acts, incl. The Supremes' Mary Wilson, Jimmy Ruffin and Brenda Holloway. After a reunion of 60 Motown stars, including Edwin Starr and Levi Stubbs on top of the Pontchartrain Hotel close to the original Hitsville USA building, [2] Motorcity Records was launched as a record label. [2] Initially distributed by PRT, then Pacific, Charly and finally Total/BMG, the label ended in the 1992 due to severe financial losses,. [2] 750 songs had been recorded, and a further 107 songs would be added in the late 90s with Pat Lewis and Brenda Holloway. The label only enjoyed one Pop hit with "Footsteps Following Me", a UK Top 20-hit in 1991, [27] ironically by one of the least known singers of the whole roster, Frances Nero.

The boy band period of the 1990s

Following the financial failure of Motorcity Records, [2] Levine wrote and produced hi-NRG-derived singles for various bands, including Take That (he co-produced three tracks on their debut album, incl. a cover version of "Could It Be Magic" which won the Best British Single at the Brit Awards 1993, [28] and co-wrote their Top 20-hit "I Found Heaven" with Billy Griffin), and the Pasadenas (he co-produced three tracks on their Yours Sincerely album of 1992 with Billy Griffin, including the No. 4 UK hit "I'm Doing Fine Now"). [29] After Levine's falling out with Take That's Management, he formed Bad Boys Inc in 1993 and enjoyed 6 UK singles and a Top 20 album [30] followed by further Top 40-hits with boy band Upside Down UPSIDE DOWN, Gemini, [31] and mixed group Optimystic. [32] Miami-based label Hot Productions reissued Levine's entire catalogue of the 1970s and 80s on CD from 1993 onwards as well as a big part of his Motorcity catalogue before folding in 1998. [33] He also co-wrote and co-produced the theme music for the 2004 Donna Summer television special "Discomania"None. In 2010, Levine formed a new boy band called Inju5tice. After the commercial failure of debut "A Long Long Way from Home", [34] the album release was cancelled, and the group and Levine split. [35]

Returning to northern soul

By 1998, Levine tracked down 179 former Northern Soul singers in the USA for his 4-hour documentary "The Strange World of Northern Soul".[ citation needed ]

Following the various artists album "Solid Ground" in 2006 (named after his collaboration with Sidney Barnes in 2001 which had become a favourite on the Northern Soul scene), [36] Levine formed Centre City Records in 2007 especially to record a series of albums of tailor-made Northern Soul music, and released 9 albums of 24 tracks each between 2007 and 2012. [37] After a hiatus of 12 years, Levine released his 10th album on the label, "Northern Soul 2024" in March 2024 [38] which saw him reform a songwriting partnership with his previous collaborator from the 1970s and 80s, Fiachra Trench.

Doctor Who

Ian Levine is known as a long running fan of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. [3] and put a halt to the destruction of old episodes in 1978, as well as returning 21 missing episodes. By purchasing private copies of all the existing episodes, Levine in conjunction with BBC-employee Sue Malden successfully stopped 4 further episodes junkings. [39] Levine was consulted by members of the production team about continuity for a while during the mid-1980s. [40] [41]

In 1985, when the BBC announced that the series would be placed on an eighteen-month hiatus, and the show's cancellation was widely rumoured, Levine was heavily involved with the media protest covertly organised by series producer John Nathan-Turner. He appeared on the ITN's News at One [42] arguing against the decision, and together with the series' production manager Gary Downie gathered a group of actors from the series to record "Doctor in Distress". [43] The single was universally panned. [44]

Levine also organised a private project to recreate the incomplete 1979 Doctor Who story Shada with animation and newly recorded dialogue from many surviving cast members. Levine had hoped that the project would be released on DVD, but the commissioning editor of the Doctor Who DVD range did not use Levine's animation on the DVD release of the story. [45] [46] The completed Levine version appeared on torrent sites almost two years later, on 12 October 2013.

Levine has been responsible for producing a number of extras on the Doctor Who DVD releases: the documentaries Over the Edge and Inside the Spaceship were included on the 3-disc set The Beginning, while Genesis of a Classic appeared on the release for Genesis of the Daleks . He also co-wrote the theme music for K-9 and Company , a pilot for a proposed Doctor Who spin-off series featuring the robotic dog and Sarah Jane Smith.

In October 2017, Levine received criticism for his negative reaction to the casting of Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, with some deeming his comments sexist. [47] [48] In response, Levine claimed he had quit Doctor Who fandom [49] though he later set up a Facebook group Ian Levine's Doctor Who Group. [50]

Disputed claims

According to Levine, he was the unofficial continuity consultant for Doctor Who in the 1980s, apparently leaving after the casting of Bonnie Langford. [51] In the documentary The Missing Years, he also credits himself with personally saving the entirety of The Daleks from destruction by BBC Enterprises. As of 2024, neither of these claims have been corroborated by any other individuals involved or any relevant documentation.

Levine claimed to have co-written Attack of the Cybermen , although Eric Saward disputed this. [52] According to Richard Bignell, Levine also claimed that Saward was to write a story for Season 23 called Gallifrey, but Saward disputed this claim. [53]

Levine also claimed that a storyline for the unmade Season 23 story Yellow Fever and How to Cure It was written, but Bignell has noted that there is no evidence such a storyline document was commissioned from Robert Holmes, [54] and also took issue with Levine's claim that the Rani would not have been featured in the said story if created, as documentation exists to show permission was received from Pip and Jane Baker to use the Rani. [55] [56]

American comic books

Levine owned the only complete set of DC Comics in the world, completed in 2004, [57] with at least one copy of each DC comic book sold at retail from 1935 to 2015. His collection was photographed in D.C.'s own official history book. [58] He sold the collection in 2008 "for a tiny fraction of their value" [59] [60] in Berkeley, California. [1] [61] [62]

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