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Simon Heyworth is an English record engineer and producer. He rose to prominence as engineer at Richard Branson 's The Manor Studio in the 1970s, where he and Tom Newman worked on Tubular Bells (1973) by Mike Oldfield, which achieved significant commercial success in the UK.
- The Beatles – ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’
- Neil Young – ‘After The Gold Rush’
- Marvin Gaye – ‘What’s Going On’
- Stevie Wonder – ‘Songs in The Key of Life’
- Eddie Hinton – ‘Very Extremely Dangerous’ / ‘A Mighty Field of Vision’
I had a been a Beatles fan since the first singles and had all the albums. When I had friends round to our house we would listen to music on my Dad’s ‘Radiogram’ which had a corner reflex cabinet with one Tannoy speaker in it. Everything sounded awesome. My brother bought this for me on a visit to London in June 1966, a few days after it was releas...
I was in college in California in the late 60’s and grew up with the whole West Coast Music scene, going to every concert I possibly could from Buffalo Springfield, The Band, Grateful Dead to Jefferson Airplane and many more including all the English acts of the time who toured the States. But it was the music surrounding Buffalo Springfield and a ...
Gaye had already had success with a number of songs from a career spanning ten years, notably ‘How Sweet It Is’, a Holland-Dozier-Holland song, and ‘Ain’t No Mountain High Enough’ with Tammy Terrell. After Tammy died he came up with this album which is extraordinary for its orchestrations and sheer beauty of the songs. And it was so brave and groun...
I had just left the Manor when this came out and in the previous year had been at Westlake Audio on Wilshire Boulevade in LA, where I was mixing an album and trying out the Westlake Studio acoustic concept. Phil Newell and I had this idea of turning the Manor into the first Westlake commercial studio in the UK. While I was there in LA the guys play...
My final record is by Eddie Hinton a Guitar player of enormous repute. I would site the critically acclaimed ‘Very Extremely Dangerous’ solo album as ‘the one’ but the new release of this has been too audio ‘limited’ and many of the songs are actually on a compilation called ‘A Mighty Field of Vision’ featuring his songs from 1969-1993. These trans...
Super Audio Mastering. Picture a tall stone room, hundreds of years old, on the edge of the desolate beauty of Dartmoor, England. In the room is the reassuring presence of veteran sound engineer, Simon Heyworth.
Apr 1, 2006 · Simon Heyworth is the man responsible for the remastering of the current Depeche Mode album re-issues. We caught up with him to chat about the work involved. As Depeche Mode continues to tour the world in support of their latest album, 2005’s Playing The Angel, their back catalog has been remastered and is about to be rereleased.
Simon Heyworth secured his reputation in sound recording at Richard Branson’s Virgin music studio The Manor, most notably as co-producer of Mike Oldfield’s ground-breaking Tubular Bells album.
These photographs were taken by Simon Heyworth during the creation of the classic album, Tubular Bells, in 1973. Tom Newman and Simon Heyworth were busy building the Manor for Richard Branson and subsequently were the engineers in the studio.
Simon Heyworth. Super Audio Mastering’s Simon Heyworth established his reputation in recording at Virgin’s Manor Studios, most notably as co-producer of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells.
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