| Bill Price | |
| Birth Date: | 3 September 1944 |
| Years Active: | 1965–2016 |
Bill Price (3 September 1944 – 22 December 2016)[1] was an English record producer and audio engineer who worked with the Clash, the Sex Pistols, Guns N' Roses, Sparks, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Nymphs, the Waterboys, Mott the Hoople and Simon Townshend (Pete Townshend's younger brother). He was chief engineer on the first three solo studio albums by Pete Townshend: Empty Glass (1980), All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes (1982) and (1985).
He contributed to documentaries about the Clash such as Westway to the World (2000).[2] Price started his audio engineering career in the mid-1960s when he was an engineer at Decca Studios in West Hampstead, recording artists such as Tom Jones.
One of the final recordings he helped engineer at Decca before departing to AIR Studios in November 1969 was the multi-million-selling "Reflections of My Life" by Marmalade.
Price helped build AIR Studios in Oxford Street, where he spent many years. During that time he engineered some of the major albums of the 1970s and 1980s.
In 1976, he was asked by Malcolm McLaren to produce the Sex Pistols' sessions that became their only studio album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (1977).[3] His work with the band led to one of his most curious album credits, alongside Chris Thomas. Price explained:[4]
During the media furore over the Sex Pistol's single "God Save the Queen", Price, Thomas and Pistols' vocalist Johnny Rotten were subject to a razor attack outside a pub in Highbury, London.[5]
Price also mixed Harry Nilsson's "Without You".
He was the chief engineer and manager at Wessex Studios, the London studio where the Clash and the Sex Pistols recorded much of their work.
More recently he worked again with Mick Jones in his band Carbon/Silicon, and mixed the Veils' studio albums Nux Vomica (2006) and Time Stays, We Go (2013).