Roy Thomas Baker
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Roy Thomas Baker (was born in London, England) is an English record producer who helped create a number of extremely popular pop and rock records from the 1970s to the present. Perhaps one of the best known Productions is the enduring hit song "Bohemian Rhapsody"by Queen, he also Produced numerous, notable artists, including Guns N' Roses, The Who, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, The Cars, Foreigner, Journey, Pilot, Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe, T. Rex, Devo, The Stranglers, Dusty Springfield, Starcastle, T'Pau, Yes, Cheap Trick, Gasolin' and The Darkness. Most recently he has worked with The Smashing Pumpkins on their new album, Zeitgeist and the related EP American Gothic. The Summer of 2007 he Produced at his Recording Studio in Arizona "The Storm" which has since gone gold.
Although he now spends much of his time at his studio in Arizona, Baker got his start at Decca Records in England at the age of 14. Later he moved to Trident Studios, where he worked with people such as Gus Dudgeon and Tony Visconti.
According to Jimmy Chamberlin, the only times Baker complained during the making of Zeitgeist was when he was denied a permit to build a helipad at his California mansion, and when he had to sell a castle he owned back in England.
[edit] Selected discography
Productions by Roy Thomas Baker:
- Gasolin': Gasolin' 3 (1973)
- Gasolin': "Gasolin' Stakkels Jim" (in English: "Poor Jim") (1974)
- Queen: Queen (1973)
- Queen: Queen II (1974)
- Queen: Sheer Heart Attack (1974)
- Queen: A Night at the Opera (1975)
- Jet: eponymous debut (1975)
- Pilot: Morin Heights (1976)
- Ian Hunter: All-American Alien Boy (1976)
- Dusty Springfield It Begins Again (1978)
- The Cars: The Cars (1978)
- Queen: Jazz (1978)
- The Cars: Candy-O (1979)
- The Cars: Panorama (1980)
- Alice Cooper: Flush The Fashion (1980)
- The Cars: Shake It Up (1981)
- Devo: Oh, No! It's Devo (1982)
- Cheap Trick: One on One (1982)
- Mötley Crüe: Too Fast for Love (1983)
- T'Pau: Bridge of Spies (titled T'Pau in the USA) (1987)
- Slade: You Boyz Make Big Noize (1987)
- Ozzy Osbourne: No Rest For The Wicked (1988)
- Dangerous Toys: Hellacious Acres (1989)
- The Stranglers: 10 (1989)
- Shy England: Misspent Youth(1990)
- Mozart: "Mozart"(1994)
- Mozart: "Eve"(1995)
- Mozart: "Paris Is Dying... "(1996)
- Local H: "Pack Up The Cats" (1998)
- Split Shift: Tension (2004)
- The Darkness: One Way Ticket to Hell... And Back (2005)
- The Smashing Pumpkins: Zeitgeist (2007)
- The Storm: Where The Storm Meets The Ground (2007)
- Currently working on his latest project in Lake Havasu City, AZ; a new rock band which the name is not yet known.
