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Giles Martin, Part 2

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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The Troubles of Making Albums in a Monster

Bands would have to get a plane to Antigua, get either a charter painter or a small boat to get to this place. And it would be like walking into one of the best studios in the world. My dad loved that. He loved the idea. The main problems that weren't actually the bands, it was like probably the bands' girlfriends and managers and people getting bored and getting drunk and falling to swimming pools. But I think what artists liked about it, I mean, I suppose to Elton about it, he liked the fact that he wasn't anyone there. So Elton John, that's a chicken shack.

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