Roy Thomas Baker, the English producer who labored with Queen and The Automobiles within the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Eighties, has died. He was 78.
No reason behind dying has been introduced.
Baker started his profession within the music business in his teenage years and finally labored alongside Elton John’s producer, Gus Dudgeon. Early on, he labored with Tony Visconti, one among David Bowie’s producers, Mick Jagger, the Rolling Stones, The Who and lots of extra artists.
In 1972, Baker met Queen, they usually collaborated throughout 5 various albums. Whereas working with the rock band, he produced quite a lot of their tracks, together with their 1975 hit “Bohemian Rhapsody” from their fourth studio album A Night time on the Opera.
The tune was nominated for 2 Grammys and was later inducted into the Grammy Corridor of Fame in 2004. Notably, “Bohemian Rhapsody” is the most-streamed tune from the twentieth century.
Baker was fairly an influential producer within the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Eighties, serving as a producer for 4 of The Automobiles‘ albums, Mötley Crüe’s debut studio album Too Quick for Love and The Smashing Pumpkins’ 2007 and 2008 data, Zeitgeist and American Gothic.
“I believe he introduced a specific amount of self-discipline and numerous cynicism [laughs], and a ardour for fattening desserts. However no, he was very disciplined and really strict at first,” Queen’s Roger Taylor beforehand stated of Baker. “However he would all the time get it proper. The take needed to be proper. We’d do numerous takes typically earlier than it was proper. As a result of issues have been very totally different then, you understand, you needed to get all of it proper, abruptly.”
Baker’s extra collaborators embrace Weapons N’ Roses, Foreigner, Pilot, Ozzy Osbourne and Journey, amongst others.
Survivors embrace his spouse, Tere Livrano Baker, and his brother, Alan Baker.
