Producer / Engineer Dossier
Steve Lillywhite
A producer & engineer credit profile tracking studio work for Steve Lillywhite across the archive.
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3 album / credit record(s) · Post-Punk, Post-Punk/New Wave, Rock
U2's debut was recorded July-September 1980 at Dublin's Windmill Lane Studios, which became the band's home base through the decade, with producer Steve Lillywhite stepping in after Joy Division producer Martin Hannett -- the band's original choice -- was too shaken by Ian Curtis's suicide that May to take the job. Lillywhite used unorthodox techniques to capture a bigger drum sound, including recording Larry Mullen Jr. playing in a stairwell and cutlery skimmed against a spinning bicycle wheel. Its cover photo of a young boy's face, paired with lyrics about adolescence and lost innocence, set the tone for the band's early identity.
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