The two invisible men from Michael Jackson's heyday.....
The other day I read the following in an industry magazine:
The two invisible men from Michael Jackson's heyday were engineer Bruce Swedien, who would often record as many as 100 (yes, 100) tracks, using various musicians, and assemble a thick, Phil Spector-ish wall of sound that gave Jackson's work a uniquely meaty feel (and still does- Swedien is Jackson's engineer).
The other invisible man was a guy named Rod Temperton. Temperton— a man most people have never seen, so he could be, like, at the supermarket buying Cheerios and you'd never know— is the killer writer of such mega hits as Heatwave's Always And Forever, James "How'd HE Ever Get This Deal?" Ingram's ubiquitousmonster hit Just Once, and hundreds of other major pop hits.
I’ve never thought of Roddy and myself as “Invisible”. Perhaps so, though....
Bruce Swedien
