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Stock, Aitken & Waterman, sometimes known as SAW, are a British songwriting and record producing trio who had great success during the mid-late 1980s and early 1990s with many of their productions. The three can be considered to be the most successful songwriting and producing partnership of all time, scoring over 200 top 40 UK hits. SAW started in Hi-NRG production on underground club hits, but would hit the motherlode when they mixed the House-influenced sound with Sweet bubblegum lyrics and referred to themselves as the British Motown. During 1987-1989, their music style was Labelled "Eurobeat" in Europe. A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ...
In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ...
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Hi-NRG (High Energy) is a type of electronic dance music which emerged and then became popular in nightclubs in the early 1980s. ...
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Bubblegum pop (bubblegum rock, bubblegum music, youth music, or simply bubblegum) is a genre of popular music. ...
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The trio consists of Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman. Mike Stock (born December 3, 1951) is a British song writer best known as being one third of the song writing trio Stock Aitken Waterman. ...
Matt Aitken (born August 25, 1956) in Coventry England, is a British songwriter and record producer, brought up in Astley, Greater Manchester, best known as being the creative force behind the 1980s songwriting/production trio Stock Aitken Waterman. ...
Pete on the cover of his autobiography I Wish I Was Me Peter Alan Waterman, OBE (born in Coventry on January 15, 1947) is an English record producer, songwriter, radio and club DJ, television presenter, president of Coventry Bears rugby league club and a keen railway enthusiast. ...
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On January 15, 1984, shortly after meeting Aitken and Stock, Waterman asked them to work with him and his recently formed production company, Pete Waterman Limited (PWL). Their initial style was Hi-NRG with a cover version of "You Think You're a Man" by Divine (#16 UK Jul 1984) and "Whatever I Do" by Hazell Dean (#4 UK Jul 1984). They struck gold in March 1985 when "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" by Dead or Alive reached number one in UK. However, Pete Waterman has said in interviews that the trio were still in dire financial straits at the time. January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar). ...
PWL (Pete Waterman Ltd) is the production company and one-time record label owned by pop mogul Pete Waterman. ...
Hi-NRG (High Energy) is a type of electronic dance music which emerged and then became popular in nightclubs in the early 1980s. ...
Divine with dogs Harris Glenn Milstead (born October 19, 1945 in Towson, Maryland - died March 7, 1988) was better known by his drag persona Divine. ...
Hazell Dean in 1991 Hazell Dean (born October 27, 1956 in Great Baddow, Essex) is an English dance music singer, composer and producer. ...
1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Dead or Alive is a British New Wave band from Liverpool that rose to popularity during the 1980s. ...
This success, and the trio's unique sound attracted the attention of female pop group Bananarama, Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama member), wanted to record a cover version of Shocking Blue's "Venus". The result was a Hi-NRG reworking which became a worldwide chart hit, achieving the coveted number one spot in the U.S Billboard Hot 100. Bananarama went on to make Stock Aitken and Waterman their main producers, and would collaborate with them on some of their biggest hits, including "Love in the First Degree", "I Can't Help It", and "I Heard a Rumour". SAW took early notice of the skills of UK engineer and mixer Phil Harding, who had defined a signature sound for himself on the debut Matt Bianco album "Whose Side Are You On?" in 1984. He was put under contract and made the chief engineer at the newly formed PWL studios. Harding was arguably the biggest single force in shaping the sound of a PWL record, and subsequent engineers Pete Hammond and Dave Ford would quite clearly follow suit from his example. Harding's signature take on the House sound (in conjunction with Ian Curnows keyboards and sequencing work) was an uncannily lyrical staccato programming of bass synth over the Linn kick drum. Harding and Curnow were much copied throughout Europe's dance underground. Their mixes and productions from the late '80s suggest the duo were the primary influence on what would become the Euro-Disco influenced sound (a.k.a. Italo Disco) This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
Shocking Blue was a Dutch rock band from The Hague that existed from 1967 to 1974. ...
Venus is a song by the band Shocking Blue, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on February 7, 1970. ...
Hi-NRG (High Energy) is a type of electronic dance music which emerged and then became popular in nightclubs in the early 1980s. ...
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. ...
I Heard a Rumour is a song by Bananarama featured on their Wow! album. ...
British field archaeologist Phillip Harding has become a familiar face on the Channel 4 television series Time Team, his trademarks being his long hair, battered hat and West Country accent. ...
Matt Bianco is a 1980s UK pop group formed by Basia Trzetrzelewska (vocals), Mark Reilly (vocals) and Danny White (keyboards). ...
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Eurodance is style of dance music, popular in Europe during 1990s. ...
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The assembly line Following their early success, their style evolved into a more mainstream bubblegum synth pop, with attractive singers. They typically worked by writing the songs, although many of their early acts (such as Hazell Dean, Dead or Alive, and Bananarama) wrote their own material, recording the music with extensive use of synthesizers, drum machines (drums were often credited to "A Linn", a sly reference to the Linn brand of drum machine) and sequencers, and then bringing in a singer solely to record the vocal track. The tendency toward interchanging artists and repertoire was well established when Rick Astley's sensational breakout album "Whenever You Need Somebody" got its name and title track from a minor hit the trio had produced a year earlier for O'chi Brown. Evidently they thought the song still had some mileage, and it was even issued with an exact replica of O'chi's club mix for the Rick Astley club mix. Their prodigious, production line-like output led to them being referred to as the hit factory (not to be confused with the record label of the same name) and attracted criticism from many quarters. However, Pete Waterman defended their style by comparing it to the output of Motown in the 1960s. The current version of this article or section is written in an informal style and with a personally invested tone. ...
Synth pop is a style of popular music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. ...
Hazell Dean in 1991 Hazell Dean (born October 27, 1956 in Great Baddow, Essex) is an English dance music singer, composer and producer. ...
The phrase Dead or Alive can refer to the following in addition to its common usage on bounties where it is a capture condition: For the New Wave band from Liverpool, see Dead Or Alive (band). ...
A synthesizer (or synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument designed to produce electronically generated sound, using techniques such as additive, subtractive, FM, physical modelling synthesis, phase distortion, or Scanned synthesis. ...
A Boss DR-202 Drum Machine A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums and/or other percussion instruments. ...
In the field of electronic music, a sequencer was originally any device that recorded and played back a sequence of control information for an electronic musical instrument. ...
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Whenever You Need Somebody is Rick Astleys first album released in 1987 on RCA Records. ...
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Stock, Aitken & Waterman’s early work was recorded and mixed at Marquee Studios in Wardour Street, where Phil Harding and Rob Waldron worked with them on "Youthquake" the Dead or Alive album which included their huge hit "You Spin Me Round (Like a record)". Rob went as Assistant Engineer to Phil when Pete Waterman opened his new studio in Borough (The Hit Factory). Rob became chief recording engineer and Linn 9000 programmer (A Linn) and Phil became Mix Master, working with various artists including Bananarama (Venus), Princess, Rick Astley, Hazel Dean, Haywood, Brilliant and Ochi Brown.
The kids, the press and the underground SAW's greatest success, not unlike Madonna in the States, was in fully exploiting the underground music scene that was booming in Britain in the late 1980s. SAW's goal was to harness the dynamic energy of club culture (and the sound of Chicago House) and marry it to squeeky-clean light entertainment that could sell in large quantities, while all the while keeping their hands firmly in the publishing of all they produced. In this regard they were extremely similar to Motown, with SAW reportedly making use of the dubious "artist development deal" just as Berry Gordy had two decades earlier. Under such arrangements all facets of a young artist's career would be controlled and dictated by the record company and often the artist's publishing rights would be co-opted in the process and the record company would fill the role of manager on the artist's behalf. While SAW seem to have worked equally well with artists under their control and those more established and independent, it would obviously make more business sense for them to focus on the development of new talent under the terms that gave them most control. As the nineties rolled in, they seemed solely focused on their young teenage signings (through PWL and the publishing arm of All Boys Music). PWL was initially championed by the music papers for their fresh sound and seemingly underground aesthetic, but not for long. They invoked the wrath of the British music press when they strong-armed the group M/A/R/R/S into a legal settlement over a 7-second sample of someone moaning the single word "hey" that M/A/R/R/S had taken from SAW's "Roadblock" and used in their surprise hit "Pump Up the Volume". Pete Waterman wrote an open letter to the music press calling such things "wholesale theft". The press fired back that Waterman was currently using the bassline of Colonel Abrams "Trapped" in Rick Astley's "Never Gonna' Give You Up". Waterman's production company had even lifted the entire basic rhythm arrangement off "Pump Up the Volume" (complete with the chorus) in a remix for a Sybil record (wisely titled the "Red Ink Remix"). Thus began a longlasting acrimony between PWL and the bulk of the UK's music underground. Waterman stated that it was a matter of principle rather than profit and pledged to donate all the royalties from the court case to charity. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
In later years one of their most successful artists was Kylie Minogue, a young actress and a promising pop singer from Melbourne, Australia who was well known for her role in the soap opera, Neighbours. Her first thirteen singles reached the UK top ten and her debut "I Should Be So Lucky" spent five weeks at number one in the UK singles chart. The album Kylie was the highest selling album of 1988, and fifth highest-selling album of the decade. They were also responsible for 1987's highest selling single, Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up". At the height of their fame, Stock, Aitken & Waterman also had a top twenty hit as themselves with the largely instrumental "Roadblock" (from which M/A/R/R/S would lift the offending sample for "Pump Up the Volume"). Kylie Ann Minogue (born 28 May 1968) is an Australian dance-pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. ...
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UK number-one hits The following hits produced by S/A/W made it to the top of the UK pop chart: - 1985 "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)", Dead or Alive
- 1987 "Respectable", Mel and Kim
- 1987 "Let It Be", Ferry Aid
- 1987 "Never Gonna Give You Up", Rick Astley
- 1988 "I Should Be So Lucky", Kylie Minogue
- 1989 "Especially for You", Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan
- 1989 "Too Many Broken Hearts", Jason Donovan
- 1989 "Hand on Your Heart", Kylie Minogue
- 1989 "Ferry Cross the Mersey", Christians, Holly Johnson, Paul McCartney, Gerry Marsden and SAW
- 1989 "Sealed with a Kiss", Jason Donovan
- 1989 "You'll Never Stop Me Loving You", Sonia
- 1989 "Do They Know It's Christmas?", Band Aid II
- 1990 "Tears on My Pillow", Kylie Minogue
In addition to these, "Venus" by Bananarama, "That's What Love Can Do" by Boy Krazy and "Together Forever" by Rick Astley held the number one position in the U.S. pop charts (though did not achieve the same success in the UK). You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) is a song originally released by Dead or Alive on their 1985 album Youthquake. ...
Respectable was a UK number one single for one week in March 1987 for Mel and Kim. ...
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See also This is a list of songs/singles that were written or produced by Stock Aitken Waterman. ...
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Trivia - The ubiquity of their productions led some who were less impressed with their style to re-interpret the abbreviation "SAW" to mean "Stop Aitken Waterman!"
- Also referred to by some critical of them as "Shock, Ache and Water Torture". Another epithet (applied by the Guardian) was "Shlock, Aimless and Waterdown".
- British experimental music duo Stock, Hausen & Walkman chose their name as a play on words, referencing SAW, composer Karlheinz Stockhausen and the SONY Walkman.
- Morris Minor and the Majors wrote the song "This is the Chorus" aiming to expose the manufactured music style of Stock, Aitken and Waterman - there are specific references to songs by two of their songs, Kylie Minogue's 'I Should Be So Lucky' and Mel and Kim's 'Respectable'.
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