David Lord (producer)

David Lord
Born	1944 (age 79–80) Oxford
Alma mater	Royal Academy of Music
Occupation	Record producer, composer
Website	http://www.dlord.co.uk/

David Lord (born 1944^[1]) is an English composer and record producer, known for his work with Peter Gabriel,^[2] the Korgis and XTC.

Career

Lord was born in 1944 in Oxford, England^[1] and educated at the Royal Academy of Music,^[3] under Richard Rodney Bennett.^[4] He worked as a producer for BBC Radio early in his career.^[3]

He worked as a composer; his song‐cycle, The Wife of Winter, was written in 1968, for Janet Baker^[1] while The History of the Flood (1969) has a libretto by John Heath-Stubbs.^[1] His 'cantata for children', "The Sea Journey", with a libretto by Michael Dennis Browne, is known to exist in two private pressings: one from the 1969 Farnham Festival,^[5] for which it was commissioned; the other recorded in 1982 by children from St. Catherine's British Embassy School, Athens, Greece.^[6] He also wrote a piece for Julian Bream and a test piece for a London Symphony Orchestra conductors' competition.^[4]

In 1981, Lord produced "

Lord has appeared on The South Bank Show, discussing his work producing Peter Gabriel's fourth, eponymously titled solo album.^[12]

Conviction

In 2015, Lord was convicted of

• The Korgis – Dumb Waiters (1980)^[14]
• The Korgis – Sticky George (1981)
• Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel (1982)
• Roy Harper – Work of Heart (1982)^[15]
• The Icicle Works – The Icicle Works (1984)
• XTC – The Big Express (1984)^[16]
• Jean Michel Jarre - Zoolook ( 1984)
• M + M – The World Is a Ball (1986)^[17]
• Icehouse – Measure for Measure (1986)^[11]
• Icehouse – Man of Colours (1987)^[18]
• Andy Davis – Clevedon Pier (1989)
• Peter Hammill – Fireships (1992)^[19]
• David Ferguson – The View from Now (1998)^[20]

References