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Steve Levine is a British record producer, best known for his work on Culture Club's studio albums. [1] He won a Brit Award for Producer of the Year in 1984. [2] He has also composed film and TV scores.
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Levine's career began as a trainee tape-op at CBS studios in 1975, soon progressed to in house engineer, working with many new wave and punk acts including the Clash, the Jags, XTC and many of CBS Records' pop acts, including Sailor.
It was at CBS that Levine met Beach Boy Bruce Johnston, who would play an important role in the consolidation of his production career,[ citation needed ] culminating with Levine producing the 1985 album The Beach Boys. From the early 1980s, with the worldwide success of Culture Club, Levine's reputation grew and, apart from the Beach Boys, he produced work for the Honeyz, John Howard, China Crisis, Motörhead, Ziggy Marley, Westworld and Gary Moore. In 2013, Levine was chairman of the Music Producer's Guild.[ citation needed ]
Levine created and co-presents the BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 6 Music programme The Record Producers, [3] with regular BBC Radio 2 host Richard Allinson. This series of documentaries analyse, from the record producer's perspective, how iconic recordings are created.
Levine has collected several prestigious awards including a Brit Award for Producer of the Year in 1984. [2] Levine is also a LIPA companion[ citation needed ] and holds an Honorary Doctorate at Bucks University.[ citation needed ] He is the author of The Hit Kit and The Art of Downloading Music.[ citation needed ]
Levine is the owner of label Hubris Records Limited and has produced artists for the label including Daytona Lights, Natalie McCool and Hushtones.
Levine and his wife, radio producer and talent manager Karen, have two daughters. They live in Liverpool. His daughter also works in the music industry and resides in London. [ citation needed ]
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Bananarama are an English pop group formed in London in 1980. The group, originally a trio, consisted of friends Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey, and Keren Woodward. Fahey left the group in 1988 and was replaced by Jacquie O'Sullivan until 1991, when the trio became a duo. Their success on both pop and dance charts saw them listed in the Guinness World Records for achieving the world's highest number of chart entries by an all-female group. Between 1982 and 2009, they had 32 singles reach the Top 50 of the UK Singles Chart.
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Bernard Joseph Butler is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He has been hailed by some critics as the greatest guitarist of his generation; BBC journalist Mark Savage called him "one of Britain's most original and influential guitarists". He was voted the 24th greatest guitarist of the last 30 years in a national 2010 BBC poll and is often seen performing with a 1961 cherry red Gibson ES-355 TD SV with a Bigsby vibrato tailpiece.
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