David Mackay (producer)

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David Mackay (born 11 May 1944)

He was classically trained at Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he studied piano, clarinet, theory and composition.

Mackay was later head-hunted by

Mackay eventually left

The World Starts Tonight (1977) is the debut studio album by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, released in February 1977 by RCA Records. Most of the songs were written by Ronnie Scott and Steve Wolfe, who worked as her managers while she was signed to RCA. They also produced the album alongside David Mackay. Musically, the album features country and pop songs. Natural Force (1978) is the second studio album by Tyler, released in May 1978 by RCA Records. In the United States, the album was titled It's a Heartache. As with her debut, Ronnie Scott and Steve Wolfe wrote most of the tracks on the album. David Mackay returned again to produce, with Scott and Wolfe.

In 1990, Mackay and

In 2018, Bonnie Tyler announced that she would be working with Mackay, who co-produced her first two albums. Tyler and Mackay also collaborated on Frankie Miller's album Double Take (2016). In March 2019, Between the Earth and the Stars was released as the seventeenth studio album by Bonnie Tyler, and was produced by Mackay.

Selected UK, US and Australian discography

Singles

• "Carousel of Love" by Peter Best (1967)
• "The Pushbike Song" by The Mixtures (1970 UK #2 / AUS #1)
• "Never Ending Song of Love" by The New Seekers (1971 UK #2)
• "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)" by The New Seekers (1971 UK #1 / US #7)
• "Beg, Steal or Borrow" by The New Seekers (1972 UK #2 / US #81)
• "Power to All Our Friends" by Cliff Richard (1973 UK #4 / AUS #31 / US #109)
• "Baby We Can't Go Wrong" by Cilla Black (1974 UK #36)
• "(You Keep Me) Hangin On" by Cliff Richard (1974 UK #13)
• "Trans Canada Highway" by Gene Pitney (1975 AUS #14)
• "More Than a Lover" by Bonnie Tyler (1977 UK #27)
• "It's a Heartache " by Bonnie Tyler (1978 UK #4 / US #3 / AUS #1)
• "Baby Blue" by Dusty Springfield (1979 UK #61)
• "Lost in Love" by Demis Roussos (1980)
• "Save Me" by Johnny Logan (1980)
• "Love's Alive" by Vicky Leandros (1981)
• "Your Love Still Brings Me To My Knees" by Dusty Springfield (1980)
• "Your Love Still Brings Me to My Knees" by Marcia Hines (1981 AUS #10)
• "What a Bitch is Love" by Marcia Hines (1981 AUS #51)
• "Breakin' Away/
  That's Living Alright" by Joe Fagin
  (1983 UK #3)
• "It Should've Been Me" by David Ride ( 1987 Warner)
• "Theme From Neighbours" by Dame Edna Everage (1988)
• "Hold On" by Bonnie Tyler (2019)
• "Life will unfold" by C.B. Green (2022)
• "Suddenly" by C.B. Green (2022)

Albums

• The Happy Prince by
  The La De Das
  (EMI/Columbia Aust., 1968)
• Laughing Cavalier by The Wallace Collection (1968)
• We'd Like to Teach the World to Sing by The New Seekers (1971 UK #2)
• Circles by The New Seekers (1972 UK #23)
• Now by The New Seekers (1973 UK #47)
• Only When I Laugh by Blue Mink (1973)
• Take Me High: Soundtrack by Cliff Richard (1973 UK #41)
• Only When I Laugh by Blue Mink (1973)
• Fruity by Blue Mink (1974)
• 31st Of February Street by Cliff Richard (1974)
• In My Life by Cilla Black (1974)
• It Makes Me Feel Good by Cilla Black (1976)
• Tarney & Spencer by Alan Tarney and Trevor Spencer (1976)
• The World Starts Tonight by Bonnie Tyler (1977)
• Natural Force by Bonnie Tyler (1978 US #16 1978)
• Take it From the Boys
  by Marcia Hines (1981 AUS #16)
• Paris by Jon English
  and David Mackay
• Between the Earth and the Stars by Bonnie Tyler (2019 UK #34)
• The Best Is Yet to Come by Bonnie Tyler (2021)

Awards

ARIA Music Awards

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References