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“It was my first studio job. I wiped a Robert Fripp guitar section. He wasn’t happy”: A world-class producer recalls shaky start to his career

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Mick Glossop inside his music studio in London, session for Future Music Magazine/Future via Getty Images taken on April 23, 2009. (Photo by Jesse Wild/Future Music Magazine/Future via Getty Images).

Mick Glossop has enjoyed an award-winning career as a record producer. He’s probably best known for his work with punk and new wave bands of the 70s and 80s via his employment in London’s Town House and Oxford’s Manor studios. But, as Glossop told Prog in 2009, he also has a respectable legacy in the progressive genre.

Mick Glossop’s introduction to professional studio production was a bit of a nightmare. “It was my first job as an assistant studio engineer at Wessex Studios in London,” he recalls – as if he could ever forget.

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