Steve Lillywhite
Lillywhite (born 1955) is a Grammy Award-winning English music producer.
Early Career
Lillywhite entered the music industry in 1972, when he worked as a tape operator for Polygram. He produced a demo recording for the band Ultravox, which led to them being offered a recording contract with Island Records. Lillywhite soon joined Island as a staff producer, where he worked with many of the leading New Wave artists. His first massive commercial success was with Siouxsie and the Banshees in August 1978 after producing their first single, "Hong Kong Garden", featuring an original hook played on a glockenspiel.
In 1987 Lillywhite worked with The Pogues, producing their breakthrough single "Fairytale of New York" it was due to him that his then wife, Kirsty MacColl, provided the lead female vocal for their biggest hit. The single narrowly missed being the UK Christmas number one single but was still one of the biggest selling records that year.
Partial discography
30 Seconds to Mars - This Is War
The Adventure Babies — Laugh
Joan Armatrading — Walk Under Ladders
Big Country — The Crossing, Wonderland, Steeltown
Blue October — Approaching Normal
Climie Fisher — some songs from Everything
Chris Cornell — Carry On
Counting Crows — Hard Candy
Marshall Crenshaw — Field Day
Crossfire Choir — Crossfire Choir
Crowded House — Time on Earth
Darius Danesh — Dive In
Dark Star — Twenty Twenty Sound
Dave Matthews Band — Under the Table and Dreaming, Crash, Before These Crowded Streets, The Lillywhite Sessions (unreleased)
Elwood — The Parlance of Our Time
Peter Gabriel — Peter Gabriel (aka Peter Gabriel III or Melt)
Guster — Lost and Gone Forever
The La's — The La's
Annifrid Lyngstad (Frida) — Shine
Kirsty MacColl — Kite, Electric Landlady, Galore
Matchbox Twenty — Exile on Mainstream
Morrissey — Vauxhall and I, Southpaw Grammar, Maladjusted
Jason Mraz — Mr. A-Z
Ours — Distorted Lullabies
Penetration — Coming Up for Air
Phish — Billy Breathes, Joy
The Pogues — If I Should Fall From Grace with God, Peace and Love
The Psychedelic Furs — The Psychedelic Furs, Talk Talk Talk
Rearview Mirror — All Lights Off
Tom Robinson — Sector 27
The Members - At the Chelsea Nightclub
The Rolling Stones — Dirty Work
Simple Minds — Sparkle in the Rain
Siouxsie and the Banshees — The Scream
The Smiths — mixed the "Ask" single (The World Won't Listen)
Switchfoot — Oh! Gravity.
Talking Heads — Naked
Thompson Twins — Set
Johnny Thunders — So Alone
Toyah — The Changeling
Travis — Good Feeling
U2 — Boy, October, War, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, some songs on The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, All That You Can't Leave Behind, No Line on the Horizon
Ultravox — Ultravox!, Ha!-Ha!-Ha!
World Party — Bang!
XTC — Drums and Wires, Black Sea
