Producer · Engineer

Chris Thomas

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Abbey Road

The Beatles · 1969

Recorded mainly across April, July and August 1969 at Abbey Road and other London studios, Abbey Road was the Beatles' final recorded album, made under producer George Martin on the condition that the group work with the discipline of their earlier records. Built around McCartney's push for a continuous medley on side two and Harrison's two strongest contributions to the catalogue, it closed the group's studio career with the Moog synthesiser and a solid-state mixing desk giving it a different texture from anything they had made before.

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Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols · 1977

Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols is the only studio album by the Sex Pistols, recorded piecemeal at Wessex Sound Studios in London between 1976 and 1977 with producers Chris Thomas and Bill Price, and released by Virgin in October 1977. Glen Matlock wrote much of the material before quitting, Sid Vicious replaced him but barely played on the record, and guitarist Steve Jones ended up covering most of the bass parts himself. Retailers refused to stock it and some charts wouldn't print its title, yet it still went to number one.

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The Dark Side of the Moon

Pink Floyd · 1973

Pink Floyd's eighth album, built around a theme Roger Waters proposed at a 1971 band meeting and tested on tour for more than a year before it was finished, sets songs about time, money, conflict and mental collapse inside some of the clearest studio production of its decade.