manintherain
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Posted: Jan. 08 2004, 08:54 |
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Trevor, 'The Buggles' and: ...Hans Zimmer
After the band broke up Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes founded the "Buggles". Horn once said that he chose "Buggles" as a name, because he wanted to distance himself from the amateurish punk-bands, he used to produce during the seventies.
"It was the most disgusting name I could think of at that time", he once said.
During daytime, however, Horn still worked as a producer for other bands and as an engineer - very often for 30-second commercial spots composed and arranged by: ....tadaa... the then unknown Hans Zimmer, now oscar winning film score composer-superstar.
Zimmer had left his native Germany for London after finishing school. He played in several unsuccessful bands until he got his first real job, doing commercials for Air Edelle, a company that belongs to George Martin. He started out as a synth programmer, but later got to writing and arranging the whole spots - an experience he later called "good training": "It taught me how to work with people who couldn’t express themselves musically and you would still have to come up with something they wanted." Zimmer later said in an interview with recording-software company Steinberg (link on the links-page).
One day Horn told Zimmer about his Buggles project and invited him to help him out: "I would start working with Trevor at 6 PM, finish at 9 AM to get to my 10:00 session which was actually paying my rent, it was pretty harsh. Trevor was always brilliant and I really learned a lot from him, I learned how to listen."
Did you know? Even though Hans Zimmer was never an official member of the Buggles, it is him in the video to "Video Killed The Radio Star" in front of the Modular! VKTRS was the first and only "own" hit Trevor ever had.
By the way, Geoff Downes worked with Mike on Islands?
"Our story begins at the day when Barry Palmer introduced to Mike Oldfield his friend John Payne (now forming Asia with Geoff Downes). John did vocals for "Magic Touch", but Mike decided not to use his version. The song producer was Geoffrey Downes, who suggested inviting Max Bacon for singing the song. Finally on the European edition of "Islands" You can hear Jim Price singing and on the American - Max Bacon.
Owing to Downes production of "Magic Touch" this track is sounding heavy and its vocals are very strong. This is also very typical feature of the songs, that he wrote with the super-group Asia.
In 1991 when Oldfield presented the single "Heaven's Open" in the German TV-show "Wetten Dass?" Downes was "playing" keyboards. But in fact he was only miming, as the music was full playback.
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