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Bo Michael Tretow, born August 20, 1944 in Norrköping, Sweden, recording engineer and producer most notably for Swedish pop group ABBA 1970-1982 and subsequently work with Chess.

Michael B. Tretow was born 1944 in Norrköping, Sweden. As a youngster in the 1960s, he experimented with recording equipment in his room at home. Michael made some multi-overdub recordings of his own songs where he sang and played all the instruments himself.

The recordings led to a brief record deal, a four track EP which was a collaboration with Swedish comedian Povel Ramel's son Mikael, and released on the Knäppupp label. This led to Tretow finding employment as a trainee sound engineer at Metronome Studio in Stockholm, one the most XXX studios in the mid-sixties. In 1967 he made his first recording with one of the future ABBA members as he could be found behind the mixing desk during the sessions for the Hootenanny Singers album Civila (Civilians), which included the Svensktoppen hit "Början Till Slutet". In 1970 he started working in earnest with Björn and Benny, and the three young men hit it off right away. Michael had the patience to spend hours on getting exactly the right sound, which was a working method that suited Björn and Benny perfectly.

During the ABBA years, Michael was an invaluable source of inspiration for the group. He guaranteed a consistently high quality on the recordings, but was also keen to experiment and find new ways to acquire interesting sounds.

After the ABBA years Michael scored a couple of big novelty hits in Sweden, and he has written music for movies and commercials. During the 1990s, the continued sonic upgrading of the ABBA catalogue on CD was also one of his recurring tasks.

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[edit] Discography

[edit] As artist

  • Michael & Mikael (4 track EP, 1966, with Mikael Ramel as 'Michael & Mikael')
  • This Is Our Family (Single, 1967, with Mikael Ramel as 'Michael & Mikael')
  • Let's boogie (1976)
  • Trafik-Trolle (early 1980s)
  • Caramba (1981, with Ted Gärdestad)
    • Michael B. Tretow (1982)
  • Tomteland (1985)
  • Den makalösa manicken (1986, under the pseudonym Professorn)
  • Hystereo Hi-lites (1989)
  • Greatest Hits (1999)
  • Trolles Trafikvett - Stopp (2005)
  • Trolles Trafikvett - Här Går Man (2005)

[edit] As producer

  • Lena Andersson: Det Bästa Som Finns (1977)
  • ABBA: Gracias Por La Música (1980)
  • ABBA: ABBA Live (1986)
  • Big Money: Lost In Hollywood (1992)
  • Big Money: Moonraker (1994)
  • Original Soundtrack: Bert - Den Siste Oskulden (1995)

[edit] As engineer

[edit] Sources, external links


Broken Blossom
Image:Broken Blossom
Studio album by Bette Midler
Released November 17 1977
Recorded 1977
Genre Vocal music
Label Atlantic Records
Producer Brooks Arthur
Professional reviews

All Music Guide 4/5 stars [5]
Bette Midler chronology
Live at Last
(1977)		 Broken Blossom
(1977)		 The Best of Bette
(1978)

Broken Blossom is the fourth studio album by American singer Bette Midler, her second album release in 1977 and her fifth on the Atlantic Records label. Side A:

  1. "Make Yourself Comfortable" (B. Merrill) - 3:59
  2. "You Don't Know Me" (Eddy Arnold, Cindy Walker) - 3:39
  3. "Say Goodbye To Hollywood" (Billy Joel) - 3:02
  4. "I Never Talk To Strangers" (duet with Tom Waits (Tom Waits) - 3:39
  5. "Storybook Children" (David Pomeranz, Spencer Proffer) - 3:40
  6. "Red" (John Carter, Sammy Hagar) - 3:17

Side B:

  1. "Empty Bed Blues" (J. C. Johnson) - 3:19
  2. "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" (Mack David) - 3:09
  3. "Paradise" (Perry Botkin, Jr., Gil Garfield, Harry Nilsson) - 4:15
  4. "Yellow Beach Umbrella" (Craig Doerge, Judy Henske) - 4:24
  5. "La Vie En Rose" (Mack David, Louiguy, Edith Piaf) - 2:59

[edit] Personnel

  • Bette Midler - lead vocals all tracks, background vocals tracks A3, B3, all background vocals track B4
  • Craig Doerge - keyboards tracks A1, B4, piano track A2
  • Russ Kunkel - drums tracks A1, A2
  • Alan Estes - congas track A1, percussion tracks A5, B3, B4
  • Lee Ritenour - electric guitar tracks A1, A2, A3, B3
  • Leland Sklar - bass guitar tracks A1, A2
  • Jim Horn - baritone sax track A1
  • Donny Gerrard - background vocals track A1
  • Brian Russell - background vocals tracks A1, A3
  • Chuck Higgins - background vocals track A1
  • Jimmy Haskell - arranger strings & horns track A2
  • Brenda Russell - background vocals tracks A2, A3, A5
  • Clydie King - background vocals tracks A2, A3, A5
  • Diane Brooks - background vocals tracks A2, A3, A5
  • Bobby Rozario - musical arranger track A3
  • Artie Butler - piano tracks A3, A5 B3, arranger tracks A5, B2, B3, arranger strings and horns track B4, arranger strings track B5
  • Jim Keltner - drums tracks A3, A5, A6, B1, B3, B4
  • Jack Jennings - percussion instruments track A3
  • Chuck Rainey - bass track A3
  • David Latman - background vocals track A3
  • Bob Alcivar - arranger track A4
  • Tom Waits - lead vocals, piano track A4
  • Frank Vicari - tenor saxophone solo track A4
  • Jim Hughart - bass tracks A4, A5, B5
  • Shelly Manne - drums track A4
  • Thom Rotella - guitar tracks A5, B3
  • Ira Newborn - arranger tracks A6, B1, guitars track A6
  • Don Randi - keyboards track A6, organ track B1
  • Fred Tackett - guitars tracks A6, B1
  • Jerry Scheff - bass tracks A6, B1
  • Steve Porcaro - synthesizers track A6
  • John Barnes - piano track B1
  • David Walker - electroc guitars track B1
  • Steve Douglas - saxophone track B1
  • Plas Johnson - saxophone track B1
  • Don Menza - saxophone track B1
  • Marshall Royal - saxophone track B1
  • Gene Goe - trumpet track B1
  • Don Rader - trumpet track B1
  • Bobby Shaw - trumpet track B1
  • Lew McCreary - bones track B1
  • Bill Watrous - bones track B1
  • David Hungate - bass track B3
  • Ellie Greenwich - background vocals track B3
  • Mikie Harris - background vocals track B3
  • Howard Roberts - guitar and ukulele track B4
  • Max Bennett - bass track B4
  • Mike Melvoin - arranger & piano track B5

[edit] Production

  • Brooks Arthur - record producer, sound engineer
  • Bob Merritt - sound engineer
  • David Latman - assistant sound engineer
  • Ivy Skoff - production coordinator
  • Bones Howe - producer track A4 for Mr. Bones Production
  • Management: Aaron Russo, Hollywood, California
  • Bob Defrin - cover design
  • George Hurrell - photography:
  • Primary recording location: The Record Plant, Los Angeles. Additional recording at Studio 55, Los Angeles.


Eugenio Finardi - also known as "Gege" - (July 16th 1952) is a very famous rock and pop singer in Italy. With Angelo Branduardi, Edoardo Bennato, Lucio Battisti and Lucio Dalla, he represented Italian music during the seventies. With Francesco Guccini, he is the typical leftist committed singer and songwriter.


[edit] Life

Born in Milan (Italy) in 1952, his father was Italian sound engineer and his mother an American opera singer, making him fluent in both Italian and English.

He joined Italian Communist Party (PCI) during the early seventies: a lot of his songs (in particular those from his early contain social and political comments: "Musica Ribelle" ("Rebel Music"), and "Saluteremo il Signor Padrone" ("We'll greet our Sir, the Employer") for example.

He also was a drug addict, in the same period, but his girlfriend (now wife) succeeded in getting him out of the drug racket. Many years later, he wrote a song ,"Patrizia" ("Patty"), to thank her. Because of his drug habit, there are many allusions to this problem in some of his lyrics. For example, "Extraterrestre" ("Extraterrestrial", Italian slang for "drug"), "Scimmia" (litterally: "Monkey", Italian slang for "Cold Turkey"), and "Legalizzatela !" ("Legalize it!").

His first record, "Non gettate alcun oggetto dal finestrino" ("Don't throw objects out of the train window") was released in 1975 and was a very successful LP.

Since then he has been keeping on earning praises.

[edit] Career

Finardi has been churning out records since 1975. He plays guitar and keyboards.

His career started when he was six, by making a record for children. During the early seventies, he began to play rock music.

He joined groups like The Tiger, Il Pacco (literally The Parcel, but also Italian slang for Let Down) and L’Enorme Maria (The Enourmous Maria). The latter was a group which also included Alberto Camerini a famous Italian – Brazilian guitarist.

Meanwhile Finardi began to write English lyrics and in 1973 his first [[E.P.], containing English language lyrics "Spacey Stacey" and "Hard Rock Honey" was released on the label Numero Uno (Number One, Mogol’s and Lucio Battisti's record company), but it passed fairly unnoticed by the Italian audiences.

In 1974 he signed a contract with Cramps, Gianni Sassi's record company, and the following year he wrote committed and leftist ideological Italian lyrics, that were collected on his first LP Non gettate alcun oggetto dal finestrino (Don’t throw any objects out of the train window, 1975. The album contains a rock cover of the Italian folk song "Saluteremo il Signor Padrone" ("We’ll greet our Sir, the employer". The band included another prominent Italian singer and composer, Franco Battiato.

The succeess came with his second album Sugo (Sauce), released in 1976 which contains two famous songs of his, "La Radio" ("The Radio") and "Musica Ribelle" ("Rebel Music"). In the same year, he attended to an aircheck in Parco Lambro, Milan (June, 26th - 30th), during the Sixth Youthful Working Class Festival [1].

In 1977, his new album, Diesel was a very successful record. It is acknowledged as Finardi's greatest album and on it we can find three of his best-known famous songs: "Non è nel cuore" ("Love, it isn't in your heart"), "Tutto subito" ("All and immediately", against consumerism) and arguably the most known song from this album, "Scimmia" ("Cold Turkey"). The latter created a scandal for its crudely realistic words. Finardi describes his dramatic experiences with heroin, and uses words like "buco", literally meaning "hole", but in Italian slang also "Fix"). The album also includes the ballad "Love, it isn't in your heart";

…./ But love / isn't in your heart; / but it means to recognize each other by smell. / And fondness can’t exist / without the slightest of respect / and as you can’t do without it / you must be a little patient; / Because love means to live together / and it really means to love each other, / but love can consist of delight, / but of boredom too. / But then, I relaxed, / and – as time went by – I learnt / that it's useless if we're always perfect, / that I also love your failings, / that I like waking up / by your side, in the morning, / that I never get tired of / making love to you / that it takes more than a moment / but the aim is to know each other inside. ….

In 1978 a new album was recorded, "Blitz". Inside two famous sountracks: "Cuba" (where we can find a deep uneasiness, caused by the period of cultural reaction - in those times - in Italy) and "Extraterrestre" ("Extraterrestrial"). This last one tell us about the nonsense of drug taking, actually:



Lucio Dalla played his clarinet in the soundtrack "Valeria, come stai ?" (How are you, Valeria ?")

[edit] Album

[edit] L.P. / C.D.

  • 1975 - Non gettate alcun oggetto dai finestrini / Don't throw any object out of train windows
  • 1976 - Sugo / Sauce (Cramps, CRSNP 1801)
  • 1977 - Diesel
  • 1978 - Blitz
  • 1979 - Roccando rollando / Rocking Rolling
  • 1981 - Finardi
  • 1982 - Secret streets
  • 1983 - Dal Blu / From the blue
  • 1984 - Strade / Streets (Alive)
  • 1985 - Colpi di fulmine / Loves at first sight
  • 1987 - Dolce Italia / Pleasant Italy
  • 1989 - Il vento di Elora / Wind from Elora
  • 1990 - La forza dell'amore / The force of love (a collection of old remastered songs plus 2 umpublished songs)
  • 1991 - Millennio / Millennium
  • 1993 - Acustica / Acoustics
  • 1996 - Occhi / Eyes
  • 1998 - Accadueo / Eich - two - Ou (Republished in 1999 plus 1 bonus track)[2]
  • 2001 - La forza dell'amore 2 / The force of love 2
  • 2002 - Cinquantanni / Fifty years old people
  • 2003 - Il silenzio e lo spirito / Silence and soul
  • 2005 - Anima blues / Soul blues
  • 2007 - Un uomo / A man

[edit] E.P.

  • 1975 - Soldi/Voglio (Money / I want) (Cramps, CRSNP 1801)
  • 1976 - Musica ribelle/La radio (Rebel Music / The Radio) (Cramps, CRSNP 1902)
  • 1976 - Non è nel cuore/Giai Phong (Love, it isn't in the heart / Giai Phong) (Cramps, CRSNP 1803)

[edit] Summary

  • Recorded Albums (L.P., E.P. and C.D.): 27
  • Studio Albums: 21
  • Live Albums : 1
  • Compilations: 5
  • Start - date: 1975
  • Stop date: None, at the moment.

[edit] References

  1. ^ MyTV - 1976: Eugenio Finardi live al Parco Lambro
  2. ^ Eich - two - Ou, or H2O, the water
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Image:Original Soundtrack - Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Soundtrack by Tina Turner
Released 1985
Recorded 1985
Genre Pop
Length 44:27
Label Capitol
Producer Terry Britten, Mike Chapman, Maurice Jarre
Professional reviews
Tina Turner chronology
Private Dancer (1984) Original Soundtrack: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) Break Every Rule (1986)
Singles from 'Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'
  1. "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)"
    Released: 1985
  2. "One of the Living"
    Released: 1985

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is the name of a 1985 soundtrack album to the movie of the same name, starring Mel Gibson and Tina Turner. The album was released on the Capitol Records label.

Besides the original orchestral score composed by Maurice Jarre and performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra the album includes Tina Turner's UK & US number one single "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)", released the year after her comeback with the Private Dancer album and its series of hit singles. "We Don't Need Another Need Another Hero", written and produced by Terry Britten and Graham Lyle who also wrote "What's Love Got to Do with It", appears on the album both as an extended vocal version and an extended instrumental, originally released as the A- and B-sides of the 12" single. The vocal 7" mix has since appeared on the hits compilations Simply The Best in 1991 and All the Best in 2004. The alternate 7" instrumental mix remains unreleased on CD.

The second Tina Turner track on the album, "One of the Living" produced by Mike Chapman and composed by Holly Knight - the team behind "Better Be Good To Me" and on the original vinyl album also credited to Knight's band Device - was the follow-up single to "We Don't Need Another Hero" and was then remixed for both the 7" and 12" releases. The 7" Remix, 7" Dub, 12" Special Remix, 12" Dub and 12" Instrumental versions all remain unreleased on CD. "One of the Living" won Turner a Grammy Award in 1985 for "Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female".

The Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome album has been re-issued on CD by both Capitol Records, EMI Music, Fuel 2000 and GNP Crescendo, as yet with no bonus tracks.

[edit] Tracklisting

Side A:

  1. "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)" (Terry Britten, Graham Lyle) - 6:07
  2. Tina Turner: "One of the Living" (Holly Knight) - 5:48
    • Performed by Tina Turner & Device
  3. Tina Turner: "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)" (Instrumental) (Terry Britten, Graham Lyle) - 6:30
    • Performed by Tina Turner

Side B:

  1. "Bartertown" (Maurice Jarre) - 8:28
  2. "The Children" (Maurice Jarre) - 2:11
    • Performed by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  3. "Coming Home" (Maurice Jarre) - 15:10
    • Performed by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Production

  • Tracks A1 and A3 recorded at Mayfair Studios - London.
  • Track A2 recorded at Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles.
  • Terry Britten - record producer track A1, A3
  • John Hudson - sound engineer, sound mix track A1, A3
  • Mike Chapman - producer track A2
  • Humberto Gatica - remix, co-producer track A2
  • Maurice Jarre - producer tracks B1, B2, B3
  • Christopher Palmer - assistant to Maurice Jarre track B1, B2, B3
  • Dick Lewzey - sound engineer tracks B1, B2, B3
  • Tim Pennington - assistant sound engineer tracks B1, B2, B3