On August 15, 2008, Gerald “Jerry” Wexler died aged 91. He was music journalist and producer, one of the main music industry personalities in the period from the 50s through the 80s. He played significant role in signing and producing many of most famous music acts of that period, including Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin, Ray Charles, the Allman Brothers, Chris Connor, Wilson Pickett, Dire Straits and Dusty Springfield. Wexler coined the term “Rhythm and Blues” while writing for “Billboard” magazine in the late 1940s. In 1987, Wexler was inducted to the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”, and in 2017 to the “National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame”.
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Samuel Phillips
On July 30, 2003, Samuel Cornelius Phillips died aged 80. He was record producer, radio DJ, and founder of “Sun Records” and “Sun Studio”, in Memphis, Tennessee. In the 1940s, Phillips worked as a DJ for “Muscle Shoals”, Alabama radio station “WLAY”. In 1951, Phillips recorded what is considered to be the first rock and roll record, “Rocket 88” by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats. He discovered and produced recordings by Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Howlin’ Wolf.
Paul McCartney: Press To Play
On August 25, 1986, “Parlaphone” label released “Press to Play”, the sixth Paul McCartney studio album. It was recorded March–May 1985, at McCartney’s “Sussex studios” and October–December 1985 at McCartney’s Scottish studios, and was produced by Paul McCartney, Hugh Padgham and Phil Ramone. The album cover’s photograph was taken by George Hurrell, using the same box camera that he used in Hollywood in the 1930s and the 1940s, for his photographs of movie stars of the 1930s and 1940s like Clark Gable and Greta Garbo,
Personnel:
- Paul McCartney– lead vocals, bass guitar, acoustic and electric guitars, piano, keyboards, synthesizers
- Eric Stewart– acoustic and electric guitars
- Pete Townshend– electric guitars
- Carlos Alomar– acoustic and electric guitars
- Eddie Rayner– keyboards
- Nick Glennie-Smith– keyboards
- Simon Chamberlain – piano
- Linda McCartney– keyboards, backing vocals
- Neil Jason– bass guitar
- Phil Collins– drums, percussion
- Jerry Marotta– drums, percussion
- John Bradbury– drums, percussion
- Graham Ward– drums, percussion
- Ray Cooper– percussion
- Dick Morrissey– tenor saxophone
- Lenny Pickett– alto and tenor saxophone
- Gary Barnacle– saxophone
- Gavyn Wright– violin solo
- Kate Robbins– harmony vocals
- Ruby James – harmony vocals
- James McCartney– spoken word
- Steve Jackson– spoken word
- Eddie Klein – spoken word
- John Hammel – spoken word
- Matt Howe – spoken word
- Tony Visconti– orchestral arrangements
- Anne Dudley– orchestral arrangements
- Hugh Padgham – engineer
- Tony Clark– engineer assistant
- Jon Kelly– engineer assistant
- Peter Mew– engineer assistant
- Matt Howe – engineer assistant
- Steve Jackson – engineer assistant
- Haydn Bendall– engineer assistant
- Hugh Padgham – mixing
- Bert Bevans – mixing
- Steve Forward – mixing
- Julian Mendelsohn – mixing
Track listing:
All tracks by Paul McCartney and Eric Stewart, except where noted.
- Stranglehold
- Good Times Coming/Feel the Sun – Paul McCartney
- Talk More Talk – Paul McCartney
- Footprints
- Only Love Remains – Paul McCartney
- Press – Paul McCartney
- Pretty Little Head
- Move Over Busker
- Angry
- However Absurd
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