Anybody can make a record these days,” according to Trevor Horn. Sometimes billed as “the man who invented the sound of the 1980s”, Horn is the studio wizard responsible for hi-tech mega productions for Frankie Goes to Hollywood, ABC, Grace Jones, Art of Noise, Propaganda, the Pet Shop Boys, Simple Minds and Seal, productions which came to define the most over-the-top era in pop history. He doesn’t seem particularly impressed with the current state of the art. a b c Perrone, Pierre (27 March 2014). "Jill Sinclair: Businesswoman and pop manager who co-founded ZTT and guided the career of her husband Trevor Horn". The Independent. Archived from the original on 26 December 2015 . Retrieved 25 December 2015. Paphides, Peter (19 October 2003). "Belle & Sebastian, Dear Catastrophe Waitress". The Guardian . Retrieved 19 April 2023. In recent years, Downes has teamed up with Wetton in a separate project under the name Icon. They have released three studio albums: Icon (2005), Icon II: Rubicon (2006), and Icon 3 (2009) and live album from their 2005 tour.

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Horn co-wrote "Everybody Up", the theme song to the TV programme The Glam Metal Detectives, a comedy sketch show which appeared on BBC Two in 1995. This was another collaboration with Lol Creme. In 1992, Horn collaborated with composer Hans Zimmer to produce the score for the film Toys, which included interpretations by Tori Amos, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. The Rightful Heir?". Q Magazine No. 48. September 1990. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011 . Retrieved 23 July 2011. It was 2am on Sunday and the assistant on the session brought us a note from Jim Steinman, who was working in the next studio to us. Would we like to pay him a visit at 4am? Of course we would. 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...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. Horn met Jill Sinclair, a former mathematics teacher and business partner, in 1977. They married in 1980 and became business partners. [39] They had four children: two sons, Aaron and Will, [70] and two daughters, Gabriella and Alexandra, [71] the latter of whom has worked as a trainee solicitor. [4] Aaron (known in the industry as "Aaron Audio"), like his father, is a musician and producer. He was in the band Sam and the Womp [72] and frequently DJs around London (he lives in north London). [73] Both Aaron and Ally Horn are co-directors of Sarm Studios. As of August2016 [update], Horn has three grandsons. [71] He is not Jewish, but has attended synagogue with his children, who were raised in his wife's faith. [74] In a 2019 interview, he said that he "believes in [Judaism] more than anything else". [75]