John Leckie is one of British music's most prolific record producers, having produced and/or engineered such high-profile albums as George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, The Bends by Radiohead, The Fall's This Nation's Saving Grace, the eponymous debut album of The Stone Roses and The Verve's A Storm in Heaven.
Leckie began his career at Abbey Road Studios as an in-house engineer. During this time he worked with Pink Floyd, all of the Beatles individually as well as many other musicians. Eventually he left and became a freelance producer.
In 1974 Leckie decided to move to Cornwall, setting up a residential recording studio just outside of Fowey called Sawmills.
Awards[]
- 1995—Music Week award for Best Producer
- 1996—Q Award for Best Producer
- 1997—Brit Award
- 2001 UK Music Managers Forum Best Producer
Album credits as producer[]
- The Adverts: Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts
- Ashkhabad: City of Love
- The Atrix: The Atrix
- BeBop Deluxe: Sunburst Finish
- BeBop Deluxe: Modern Music
- BeBop Deluxe: Life in the Air Age
- BeBop Deluxe: Drastic Plastic
- Bill Nelson: Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam
- Phillip Boa & Voodoo Club: Copperfield Germany
- Cast: All Change
- Cast: Mother Nature Calls
- Cowboy Junkies: Miles from Home Canada
- The Cut: Shadow Talks Norway
- Denim: Back in Denim
- De Press: Block to Block and Product Norway
- Doctors of Madness: Figments of Emancipation
- Dr. John: Anutha Zone
- Endgames: Futures Looking Fine EP
- The Fall: The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
- The Fall: This Nation's Saving Grace
- The Fall: Bend Sinister
- Fear of Music: Fast. Faster. Fastest. EP
- Felt: The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories
- Folks: how i learnt to stop worrying about the bomb and love the folks
- Gene Loves Jezebel: Immigrant
- Gopal Shankar Misra: Out of Stillness
- The Grapes of Wrath: These Days Canada
- Roy Harper: Bullinamingvase
- Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians: Respect
- Thee Hypnotics: Soul, Glitter,Sin
- Holy Toy: Perfect Day (EP) Norway
- House of Freaks: Tantilla USA
- Hamell on Trial: Tough Love USA
- Human League: Holiday 80 EP
- Kula Shaker: K
- Let's Active: Every Dog Has His Day USA
- Los Lobos: Good Morning Aztlán USA
- Longwave: There's a Fire USA
- Lilac Time: And Love for All
- The Lucy Show: Mania
- Baaba Maal: Missing You (Mi Yeewnii) Senegal
- Magazine: Real Life
- Roger McGough: Summer With Monica
- Morgan Fisher: Seasons
- Muse: Showbiz
- Muse: Origin of Symmetry
- My Morning Jacket: Z USA
- My Computer: No CV Manchester UK
- New Order: Waiting for the Sirens' Call (certain tracks) as above..
- One Minute Silence: One Lie Fits All
- Mark Owen: Green Man
- John Power: Happening For Love
- The Posies: Dear 23 USA
- The Proof: First Rate USA
- Public Image Ltd: Public Image 1st single
- Radiohead: The Bends
- Red Noise: Sound on Sound
- Ride: Carnival of Light
- Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali: Sacrifice to Love
- Rodrigo y Gabriela: Rodrigo y Gabriela
- Marc Seberg: Lumiere Et Traisons France
- Scarlet: Chemistry
- Scott Matthews: The John Leckie Sessions with Strings EP
- Shivkumar Sharma: Sampradaya
- The Skids: Masquerade EP
- The Silencers: Dance to the Holy Man
- Simple Minds: Life in a Day
- Simple Minds: Real to Real Cacophony
- Simple Minds: Empires and Dance
- Six By Seven: The Closer You Get
- Suede: "Positivity" (tracks)
- Starsailor: Sharkfood (tracks)
- The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses 1st album
- The Stone Roses: "One Love"
- The Stone Roses: "Fools Gold/What the World Is Waiting For"
- Trashcan Sinatras: Cake
- The Troubadours: Gimme Love - Here Comes The Tide (Double A-Side)
- Tiny Dancers: Free School Milk
- Verve: A Storm in Heaven
- Papa Wemba: Molokai
Album credits with XTC[]
- The Dukes of Stratosphear: 25 O'Clock, Psonic Psunspot (as Swami Anand Nagara, his sannyasin name, when he was a follower of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
- XTC: White Music
- XTC: Go 2
- XTC: Explode Together