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Joe Boyd (born August 5, 1942) is an American record producer and writer. He formerly owned Hannibal Records. Boyd has worked with Pink Floyd, Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, Richard Thompson, Nick Drake, The Incredible String Band, R.E.M., Vashti Bunyan, John Martyn and Beverley Martyn, Maria Muldaur, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Billy Bragg, James Booker, 10,000 Maniacs, and Muzsikás.Boyd, Joe, White Bicycles – Making Music in the 1960s, Serpent's Tail, 2006. He was also one of the founders of the highly influential nightclub venue UFO Club.
In 1964 Boyd moved to London to establish the United Kingdom. office of Elektra Records.Boyd, 2006, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, pp. 109–117. In 1966, Boyd and John "Hoppy" Hopkins opened the UFO Club, a famous but short-lived UK underground club in London's Tottenham Court Road. He produced the first single "Arnold Layne" by UFO regulars Pink Floyd, and recordings by Soft Machine.Boyd, 2006, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, pp. 143–166. Boyd worked extensively with audio engineer John Wood at Sound Techniques studio in Chelsea. In this studio, Boyd and Wood made a succession of celebrated albums with British folk music and folk rock artists, including the Incredible String Band, Martin Carthy, Nick Drake,Boyd, 2006, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, pp. 191–202. John Martyn, Fairport Convention and Richard Thompson.Boyd, 2006, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, pp. 166–170. Some of these artists were produced by Boyd's company Witchseason Productions.
Boyd returned to the United States at the end of 1970 to work as a music producer for Warner Bros. with special input into films, where he collaborated with Stanley Kubrick on the soundtrack of A Clockwork Orange.Boyd, 2006, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, pp. 235–238. Boyd also contributed to the soundtrack of Deliverance, directed by John Boorman, where he supervised the recording of "Dueling Banjos", which became a hit single for Eric Weissberg.Boyd, 2006, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, p. 238. Boyd produced and co-directed the film documentary Jimi Hendrix (1973). In the U.S., Boyd produced albums by Maria Muldaur and Kate & Anna McGarrigle and then founded the Hannibal Records label in 1980 (later absorbed into Rykodisc), which released albums by Richard Thompson and many recordings of world music, including Hungarian band Muzsikás. Boyd also produced R.E.M.'s third album Fables of the Reconstruction (1985) as well as records by Billy Bragg and 10,000 Maniacs.
Boyd was executive producer for the 1989 feature film Scandal, starring John Hurt and Bridget Fonda about the Profumo affair in U.K. politics in 1963. Boyd left Hannibal/Ryko in 2001 and his autobiography, White Bicycles - Making Music in the 1960s, was published in 2006 by Serpent's Tail in the U.K. In 2008, he was a judge for the 7th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists. He was a producer on the long-delayed Aretha Franklin concert film "Amazing Grace."
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| recordings for projected single (Sound Techniques, London), released 1977 on Triple Echo, CD rel.: Turns On Volume 1, Voiceprint 2001 |
| compilation of instrumental and dance music from India |
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| Boyd uncreditedLarry Crane, "Interview with Joe Boyd", Tape Op, July/Aug 2007 |
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| co-production Andrea Goertler |
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