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Interview with Dave Rowntree

Bringin' it Backwards

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My Dad Was a Sound Engineer, and I Met Paul McCartney.

My dad was a singer, but he joined the RAF in his early 20s. He taught pilots on their pilot courses and then went to work for BBC. That's where he met my mum - she had to become a typing pool secretary. My dad started off as a sound engineer before moving into mixing desks. But he engineered some of the early sessions by bands like The Beatles and Cliff Richard. They were all pretty unknown in those days. I met Paul McCartney much later on a few years ago. I told him how proud my dad had been of engineering some of his sessions. And how he died out on that ever synth, really.

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