Fact #117545

Clive Langer (Deaf School) : Right from primary school days I wanted to be in a group, but nothing happened until I met Steve Allen on my first day at art college and we decided to form a band - Deaf School. We did some gigs and it all took off.

Then Steve Lindsey, our bass player and now a music publisher, entered us for a Melody Maker competition, which we won. Suddenly we were being offered deals by everyone. We signed to Warner Music via Derek Taylor and Rob Dickins, who told us about TW Studios in Fulham and suggested we used the facility for demos.

Alan (Alan Winstanley) engineered them and they sounded great, so when the band split up and I went solo I got Alan to produce my tracks. Martin Rushent was supposed to produce me, but he didn't turn up and I was left with Alan - look where that got me! (They formed a successful production partnership). It didn't take me long to realise that when Alan wasn't available and I had to work with someone else, things never came out well. I guess I figured out something from that.
(Source, interview with Sue Sillitoe in Sound On Sound, July 1998)