David Lord (producer)


David Lord is an English composer and record producer, known for his work with Peter Gabriel, The Korgis and XTC.

Career

Lord was born in 1944 in Oxford, England and educated at the Royal Academy of Music, under Richard Rodney Bennett. He worked as a producer for BBC Radio early in his career.
He worked as a composer; his song‐cycle, The Wife of Winter, was written in 1968, for Janet Baker while The History of the Flood has a libretto by John Heath-Stubbs. His 'cantata for children', "The Sea Journey", with a libretto by Michael Dennis Browne, is known to exist in two private pressings: one from the 1969 Farnham Festival, for which it was commissioned; the other recorded in 1982 by children from St. Catherine's British Embassy School, Athens, Greece. He also wrote a piece for Julian Bream and a test piece for a London Symphony Orchestra conductors' competition.
He is responsible for the string arrangements on the chart hits "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" by The Korgis, and "I'll Stand by You" by The Pretenders.
Since around 1970, Lord has lived in Bath, where he formerly operated Crescent Studios, initially in his top-floor flat in Camden Crescent, and subsequently in a building dating from around 1700, at 144, Walcot Street. He closed the studio when a new road was built next to it.
Lord has appeared on The South Bank Show, discussing his work producing Peter Gabriel's fourth, eponymously titled, solo album.

Conviction

In 2015, Lord was convicted of keeping a brothel, and was given a suspended prison sentence, as well as being subjected to a 7pm to 7am curfew for four months and made to wear an electronic tag, by Judge Geoffrey Mercer QC, at Bristol Crown Court.

Discography

Albums produced or co-produced by Lord include: