Eric Holland

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Eric Holland is an English songwriter and producer who, during the late 1960s and early 70s, was a top recording engineer in London at Recorded Sound Studios and Nova Sound Studios.

Sometimes billed by his full name, Eric David Holland, he was the technician in charge on hit singles by Sweet, Lulu, Butterscotch and worked on albums by The Bee Gees, Savoy Brown, Lulu, Sweet (mainly material written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman), Galliard, The Poppy Family, The John Dummer Band, Atomic Rooster, Andwella's Dream and Justin Hayward.

From the mid-1970s through the 1980s, Eric Holland served as an A&R and promotion representative, music publisher and record producer. He wrote and performed an ident for BBC Radio 1's Mike Read Breakfast Show, and had a turntable hit with the single "Your Love Is Slippin' Away" (Chiswick Records, released in 1983) which he produced and wrote for West London act The Flames. His promotion and music publishing activities have encompassed diverse acts from Bruce Springsteen to Millie Jackson, James Brown, The Hollies and Electric Light Orchestra.

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