Reinhold Mack
| Reinhold Mack | |
|---|---|
| Born | Germany |
| Occupation(s) | Music producer |
| Associated acts | Jim Steinman, Meat Loaf, Electric Light Orchestra, Queen |
Reinhold Mack, also known as Mack, is a German record producer and sound engineer, mostly known for his collaborations with rock bands Electric Light Orchestra and Queen.[1] Most of this work took place at Giorgio Moroder's Musicland Studios in Munich, which became famous after Marc Bolan & T.Rex (with producer Tony Visconti) first discovered it for recordings in 1973.[2] In 1981 the Queen album The Game brought Mack and the band a Grammy Award nomination for Producer of the Year (Non-Classical).[3]
Mack's third son, John Frederick Mack, was named by Freddie Mercury and was a godson of both Mercury and Queen bass guitarist John Deacon.[citation needed][4]
Mack is referenced in the lyrics of the Queen song "Dragon Attack" on their 1980 album The Game, which he produced with the band: "gonna use my stack/it's gotta be Mack".[5]
Selected discography
Albums worked on as sound engineer:
- Czesław Niemen (SBB): Strange Is This World (1972)
- Czesław Niemen (SBB): Ode to Venus (1973)
- Amos Key: First Key (1973)
- T.Rex: Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow (1974)
- Deep Purple: Stormbringer (1974)
- Deep Purple: Come Taste the Band (1975)
- Electric Light Orchestra: Face the Music (1975)
- Electric Light Orchestra: A New World Record (1976)
- Sweet: Give Us a Wink! (1976)
- Electric Light Orchestra: Out of the Blue (1977)
- Electric Light Orchestra: Discovery (1979)
- Electric Light Orchestra: Xanadu (1980)
- Electric Light Orchestra: Time (1981)
- Brian May & Friends: Star Fleet Project (1983, Mini Album; mixed by Mack)
- Electric Light Orchestra: Balance of Power (1986)
- Queen: Live Magic (1986; recorded by Mack and David Richards)
- Queen: Live at Wembley '86 (1992; recorded by Mack)
- Queen: Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl (2004; recorded by Mack)
- Queen: Queen Rock Montreal (2007; recorded by Mack)
- Rainbow: Rising (1976)
- Gordian: Madeka (2016)
Albums produced or co-produced by Mack:
- Scorpions: Fly to the Rainbow (1974)
- The Rolling Stones: It's Only Rock 'n Roll (1974)
- Deep Purple: Come Taste the Band (1975)
- Rory Gallagher: Calling Card (1975)
- The Rolling Stones: Black and Blue (1976)
- David Coverdale: White Snake (1977)
- Peter Straker: Real Natural Man (1980)
- Queen: The Game (1980)
- Queen: Flash Gordon (1980)
- After the Fire: 80-f (1980)
- Sparks: Whomp That Sucker (1981)
- Billy Squier: Don't Say No (1981)
- After the Fire: Batteries Not Included (1982)
- Sparks: Angst in My Pants (1982)
- Queen: Hot Space (1982)
- Billy Squier: Emotions in Motion (1982)
- Queen: The Works (1984)
- Roger Taylor: Strange Frontier (1984)
- Meat Loaf: Bad Attitude (1984; produced by Meat Loaf, Paul Jacobs and Mack)
- Freddie Mercury: Mr. Bad Guy (1985)
- BAP: Ahl Männer, aalglatt (1986)
- Queen: A Kind of Magic (1986)
- Extrabreit (German band): Sex after three years in a submarine (1987)
- Heavy Pettin: Lettin Loose (1987; produced by Brian May and Mack)
- Michael White: Michael White (1987)
- Extreme: Extreme (1989)
- Bonfire: Knock Out (1991)
- Law and Order: Rites of Passage (1991)
- Black Sabbath: Dehumanizer (1992)
- Loud: Psyche 21 (1992)
- SBB: New Century (2005)
- Julian Mack: Have you no decency (2005)
- Liquid Meat: Beat the Meatles (2006)
- The Shazam: M3TEOR (2009)
- Liquid Meat: Maximum Carnage (2009)
- Big Wood: Big Wood (2012)
- Custard: Infested by Anger (2012)
- Symphonika: In Dreams (2013)
- SBB: Za linią horyzontu (Behind the Line of Horizon) (2016)
References
- ^ "Bit of Rough Stuff". Evening Times. 9 February 1990. Retrieved 11 December 2011.
- ^ Larry Crane (January 2011). "Reinhold Mack: ELO, Queen, Black Sabbath & T. Rex". Tape Op (81): 34–47. Archived from the original on 15 July 2014. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
- ^ "Awards & Shows – Grammy Awards 1981". awardsandshows.com. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
- ^ "catonthewall.net Interview".
- ^ "Allmusic: Queen – Dragon Attack Lyrics". allmusic.com. Archived from the original on 28 May 2014. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
