Bill Price: podcast appearances and interviews

Bill Price (3 September 1944 – 22 December 2016) was an English record producer and audio engineer known for his extensive work in the music industry. Throughout his career, he collaborated with prominent artists and bands including the Clash, the Sex Pistols, Guns N' Roses, Sparks, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Nymphs, the Waterboys, Mott the Hoople, and Simon Townshend, the younger brother of Pete Townshend. Price served as the chief engineer on three of Pete Townshend's solo studio albums: Empty Glass, All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes, and White City: A Novel. He contributed to documentary films about the Clash, such as Westway to the World released in 2000. His career began in the mid-1960s at Decca Studios in West Hampstead, where he recorded notable artists including Tom Jones. One of his last projects at Decca involved engineering the multi-million-selling hit Reflection of My Life by Marmalade before he transitioned to AIR Studios in November 1969. At AIR Studios, built in Oxford Street, he helped engineer some of the major albums of the 1970s and 1980s, establishing himself as a significant figure in audio engineering. His expertise and contributions to the development of recording techniques and sound engineering left a lasting impact on the industry, evidenced by his work on numerous influential recordings and collaborations.