Downes has been married three times and divorced twice. He has two daughters, Christina and Alexandra (died 2013), from his first wife, Norwegian former model Wenche Steen [ no], who was Miss Norway in 1973. DBA – Sunday News radio edit Geoff Downes and Chris Braide". Archived from the original on 14 December 2021 . Retrieved 29 June 2014– via YouTube.

Cher – It's a Man's World ("The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore", "The Gunman", "Shape of Things to Come") (1995) Webb, Rob. "From The Basement On A Television: DiS talks to Nigel Godrich". DrownedInSound.com. Archived from the original on 13 September 2017 . Retrieved 13 September 2017. He released a further New Dance Orchestra (NDO) album in 2010 entitled Electronica with vocals from Anne-Marie Helder. It features Downes' orchestral style of keyboard playing. [8] Potton, Ed (1 October 2013). "And now it's farewell to the pleasuredome". The Australian . Retrieved 2 June 2018.

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He has also worked extensively as a producer with such acts as Mike Oldfield, Thompson Twins and GTR. As a songwriter, he has written for Agnetha Fältskog of ABBA. He is also credited as a co-writer on Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe album (made up of former members of Yes in 1989); he is credited due to Howe re-using some musical ideas from Asia. About the Author: Trevor Horn is a multi-million-selling producer, songwriter, musician and record-label boss, who has won multiple BRITs, Grammys and Ivor Novello Awards across his 45-year career. In 2011, he was awarded a CBE for services to music. Harvell, Jess (26 May 2006). "Various Artists: Produced By Trevor Horn". Pitchfork . Retrieved 18 April 2023. The success of the Buggles led to Downes and Horn joining Yes for the Drama album and the associated tour in 1980. Downes was the first member of the band to have completed a music degree.

In 2006, Downes reunited the original Asia lineup and rejoined Yes in 2011; he is currently a member of both groups. Since 1998, he has reunited with Horn on special occasions to perform songs from the Buggles. Downes entered the Guinness Book of Records for performing with a record 28 keyboards on stage in a single performance. [3] Early life [ edit ] In 1980, Horn married the music executive Jill Sinclair, who became his manager. [31] Sinclair told him that as an artist he would always be "second division", but if he pursued production he would become the best in the world. [14] In the 1980s, Horn incorporated samples into pop music using a Fairlight CMI synthesiser. In 1981, Horn became a full-time producer, working on successful songs and albums for acts including Dollar, ABC, Malcolm McLaren, Yes, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. He ventured into business with his wife Jill Sinclair, purchasing Sarm West Studios and establishing the publishers Perfect Songs and their own label, ZTT Records. In the following year, Horn co-formed the electronic group Art of Noise. He achieved hits in the following decades with Seal and t.A.T.u. He has performed with the supergroup Producers, later known as the Trevor Horn Band, since 2006. Horn toured as the bass player in Dire Straits Legacy in 2018–20. [10] [63] In late 2022, he published a memoir, Adventures in Modern Recording: From ABC to ZTT. [64] He joined Seal's 2023 tour, playing bass in Seal's band and reviving the Buggles as an opening act. [65]

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Paphides, Peter (19 October 2003). "Belle & Sebastian, Dear Catastrophe Waitress". The Guardian . Retrieved 19 April 2023.

Downes has continued to release sporadic solo albums over the years, mainly under the name The New Dance Orchestra. They include the critically acclaimed 1986 double album The Light Programme, in addition to Vox Humana (1992), Shadows & Reflections (2003), along with a few others. He performed a sold out one-man show in 2003 at St Cyprian's Church in London, which was recorded using ambisonics technology. [ citation needed] Offering unrivalled access to the dark arts of the producer’s world and the even darker arts of the music business itself, prepare for some adventures in modern recording.” In the mid-1990s, Horn and Sinclair bought Hook End Manor in Oxfordshire and renamed its recording facility Sarm Hook End. [38] [39] [40] In 1995, Horn produced "The Carpet Crawlers 1999", a rerecording of " The Carpet Crawlers" by Genesis, which featured vocals from their former singers Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins. It was released on the compilation Turn It On Again: The Hits (1999). [41] In 1996, Horn produced the multi-platinum album Wildest Dreams by Tina Turner.

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On 11 November 2004, a Prince's Trust charity concert celebrating Horn's 25 years as a record producer took place at Wembley Arena, featuring performances from Horn and many acts he produced. [47] It was released on DVD as Produced By Trevor Horn: A Concert For The Prince's Trust - Live At Wembley Arena London 2004 (2005) and Trevor Horn and Friends: Slaves to the Rhythm (2008), [48] and accompanied by a compilation album, Produced by Trevor Horn (2004). [49] Horn performing with the Producers in 2007 This is the discography of English record producer, singer, and bassist Trevor Horn. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Solo and related [ edit ]

Pete Selby, publishing director, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Andrew Gordon at David Higham Associates for publication in October 2022. Horn produced the ninth album by the synth-pop duo the Pet Shop Boys, Fundamental, released in May 2006. It reached No. 5 in the UK chart. In the same month, he featured in a Pet Shop Boys concert specially recorded for BBC Radio 2. Horn produced an album version of the event, Concrete, released on 23 October 2006. Horn also produced Captain's debut album, This is Hazelville, released late 2006. In the same year, he also worked with British band Delays on their song "Valentine", which was released as the lead single from their album You See Colours. He has also worked with John Legend and David Jordan.Johnson, Brent (8 September 2011). "Interview: Geoff Downes of Yes". Pop-break.com. Archived from the original on 10 July 2015 . Retrieved 29 June 2014. Horn co-produced Mike Oldfield's 1992 album Tubular Bells II alongside Oldfield and Tom Newman. Oldfield was a fan of the Buggles song "Video Killed The Radio Star" and described Horn as like being a judge in a courtroom when presenting some of his ideas for the album, to which Horn would either nod or shake his head. This, according to Oldfield, gave him a kind of a filter for which ideas worked. The big budgets, the bad behaviour (Horn has to be physically restrained from punching Yes’ Chris Squire in the face at one point), the jet-setting (Concorde is mentioned more than once) and the enormous amounts of time spend in lavish studios, are now largely a product of a bygone age, so the ‘modern’ in the title is something of a misnomer, or perhaps said with a tongue firmly in cheek. However the music endures and these accounts of the sessions that created that music –Trevor blowing his own horn –are both as entertaining and as enlightening as you would hope for. Highly recommended. Gregory, Andy. International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002. p. 143. Routledge, 2002. ISBN 978-1-85743-161-2 Jill’s accident [she was mistakenly shot by an air rifle at their home in 2006, which left her severely brain damaged] obviously had an impact on us all – some of us more than others – and we’re still dealing with it in different ways. But the family is still together and that is the important thing.