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44-500: Billy Breathes was produced by Steve Lillywhite and recorded at Bearsville Studios in Bearsville, New York between February and June 1996, following Phish's landmark fall 1995 tour. The songs "Free", "Taste", "Cars Trucks Buses", "Theme from the Bottom", "Billy Breathes" and "Prince Caspian" were debuted in concert by Phish over the course of 1995, with the remaining songs not appearing in

88-553: A 1997 interview that the cover came together very quickly on the last day of recording. Upon release, Rolling Stone said that Billy Breathes is "a quiet gem of an album" that confirms Phish "is much more than a jam band from Burlington, Vermont ." The album was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on January 8, 1999. The album was reissued on LP by Phish's label JEMP Records for Record Store Day in 2018. Early song ideas came from

132-595: A Japanese act for the first time when he co-produced Luna Sea 's 2019 album Cross . In interviews about the album, the producer has stated that he is semi-retired living in Jakarta for the past five years and now only works with select artists. Lillywhite was born in Surrey , England. From 1984 to 1994, he was married to Kirsty MacColl ; they had two sons, Jamie and Louis. (MacColl died in 2000.) He married Patricia Louise Galluzzi on 29 May 2004; they divorced ten years later. He

176-454: A Senior Vice-president of A&R . During his tenure he signed MGMT . He left the label at the end of 2006. Lillywhite collected consecutive Grammy Awards for Record of the Year with U2's " Beautiful Day " and "Walk On". In 2006, Lillywhite won three more Grammys: Producer of the Year (Non-Classical), Best Rock Album also with U2's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb ; and a partial win for Album of

220-563: A break from recording beginning on March 20, and each listened to the rough mixes during their time off. Rough mixes included the songs "Free", "Grind", two versions of "Strange Design", "Swept Away/Steep", "Talk", "Waste" and "Weekly Time". Phish performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in April and then returned to Bearsville on May 1 to resume recording. With the resumption of recording, Steve Lillywhite joined as producer on

264-464: A composed solo. I didn't labor over it. What I did is, I walked around the kitchen—my daughter had just been born and we were living out in the woods in Vermont. I was in my union suit, chopping wood. I was not thinking about anything, and then I just started singing [sings melody] the first four notes of the solo. I had a cassette player and I'd run over and get it recorded. Then I'd forget about it. And then

308-725: A giant piece of art located in a park next to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey , and embark on lengthy songwriting sessions. Many characters and locations mentioned in early Phish songs reference these songwriting sessions. In one instance, Marshall wrote the original lyrics to the Gamehendge song "McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters" and nailed them to Anastasio's front door. By 1985, Anastasio and Marshall had parted ways as Anastasio became more involved with Phish at

352-438: A good stoner record since Dark Side Of The Moon . Billy Breathes got close. I keep telling Trey Anastasio we can make a better one." After Lillywhite joined, many of the songs were recorded in the early morning hours. "We did a lot of that album at five in the morning, when the sun was coming up. It kind of sounds like that, especially the stuff on side two like 'Billy Breathes' and 'Prince Caspian', 'Swept Away' all that stuff

396-621: A project recorded by Marshall, Anastasio, and their friend Marc Daubert (who occasionally played percussion with Phish in 1984 and wrote the lyrics to their classic "The Curtain With"). Many of the pieces recorded on Bivouac Jaun appeared on The White Tape . Marshall also was instrumental in influencing The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday , a Phish concept album and song cycle about the mystical land of Gamehendge written by Anastasio and used as his senior thesis at Goddard College in 1987. Marshall, Anastasio, and friends would meet at The Rhombus ,

440-577: A scuba diving trip that Trey Anastasio and Tom Marshall went on in the Cayman Islands in January 1996. They then produced a demo which was given to the other band members at the start of the Billy Breathes sessions. Other songs such as "Free" and "Taste" had already been in the band's live rotation since 1995. The album was recorded between February and June 1996 at the now defunct Bearsville Studios in

484-757: A solo album, So Alone . His first commercial success came in August 1978 as the producer of " Hong Kong Garden ", the debut single from Siouxsie and the Banshees which peaked at number 7 in the UK Singles chart. He was soon hired to produce Siouxsie and the Banshees' debut album The Scream which was certified silver in the UK. He also produced "Ku Klux Klan", the first single that Steel Pulse released on Island Records in 1978. In 1979, he scored two hits for Virgin Records with The Members:

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528-522: Is an English record producer. Since he began his career in 1977, Lillywhite has been credited on over 500 records, and has collaborated with a variety of musicians including new wave acts XTC , Big Country , Siouxsie and the Banshees , Simple Minds , Ultravox, the Psychedelic Furs , Beady Eye , Toyah , David Byrne , Talking Heads and Kirsty MacColl , as well as U2 , the Rolling Stones ,

572-584: The UK Singles Chart in the fall of that year. In February 1980, the Psychedelic Furs ' self-titled debut album was released, produced by Lillywhite. He also produced Peter Gabriel 's critically acclaimed third solo album Peter Gabriel (also known as III or Melt ), which was released in May 1980 and topped the UK album chart . It established Gabriel as "one of rock's most ambitious, innovative musicians" and "raised considerably" Lillywhite's profile. During

616-587: The University of Vermont . Years later in 1989, Marshall apparently heard Phish's Junta album and thought to himself, "these guys really need lyrics." Marshall and Anastasio reunited and began a long songwriting partnership that resulted in over 100 songs over the next fifteen years. Anastasio's 2005 solo album Shine marks the first time since the pre- Junta years that he has not worked with Marshall. In addition to working closely with Anastasio, Marshall fronts his own band, Amfibian , currently on hiatus. In

660-418: The music industry in 1972, when he worked as a tape operator for PolyGram . He produced a demo recording for Ultravox! , which led to them being offered a recording contract with Island Records . Lillywhite soon joined Island as a staff producer, where he worked with many of the leading new wave musicians, including his brother's band, The Members , and guitarist Johnny Thunders , for whom he produced

704-560: The Catskills region of New York state. Early recording started February 1, with the band intending to produce the album themselves with engineering by John Siket. The first recording project was an attempt to create a sonic "blob" that filled an entire reel of tape. Each band member contributed on several instruments. This idea was later abandoned but elements were used on the tracks "Swept Away" and "Steep". Rough mixes of songs were made after recording for most of February and March. The band took

748-676: The Horizon . He also worked on Blue October 's Approaching Normal , and rejoined Flood to work with Thirty Seconds to Mars on This Is War . In 2008, Lillywhite produced a number of recordings for the World Cafe radio show on NPR . This included sessions at Avatar Studios in New York with Fleet Foxes , She & Him , Bell X1 , Dr. Dog , and Mercury Rev . In November 2009, he began presenting his own weekly radio show on East Village Radio called "The Lillywhite Sessions". On 25 May 2010,

792-589: The Hot Rods , Morrissey , The Rolling Stones and the Shine album by the former ABBA vocalist Anni-Frid Lyngstad . Lillywhite was also hired by Rush to produce their 1984 album, Grace Under Pressure but, much to their frustration, withdrew from the project to work with Simple Minds . Alex Lifeson , Geddy Lee , and Neil Peart referred to Lillywhite as a man not of his word for not following through on what had already been scheduled. In 1987, Lillywhite worked with

836-601: The Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to music. On 16 July 2012, the Irish Examiner reported that Lillywhite was attached to a new television show entitled ’' The Hit . Lillywhite reunited with Thirty Seconds to Mars in 2012, co-producing the band's fourth studio album Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams , alongside Jared Leto . In 2015, at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards , Lillywhite

880-544: The Pogues , Blue October , Steel Pulse , the La's , Peter Gabriel , Morrissey , the Killers , Dave Matthews Band , Phish , Guster , Counting Crows and Joan Armatrading . He has won six Grammy Awards , including Producer of the Year, Non-Classical in 2006. In 2012, he was made a Commander of the Order of The British Empire (CBE) for his contributions to music. Lillywhite entered

924-554: The Pogues , producing " Fairytale of New York ". His wife, Kirsty MacColl , provided the lead female vocal for the song, which became the band's biggest hit. The single narrowly missed being the UK Christmas number one single, but was still one of the biggest selling records that year, and has frequently returned to the holiday charts. MacColl also provided additional vocals during Lillywhite's production of Talking Heads ' final album, 1988's Naked . The song " Cotton Fields ", from

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968-744: The Pogues' 1989 album Peace and Love (also produced by Lillywhite), includes a reference to "Steve Lillywhite's drunken mix ". During the 1990s, Lillywhite produced the multi platinum albums Under the Table and Dreaming , Crash , and Before These Crowded Streets by the Dave Matthews Band . In 1991, he continued to produce Morrissey and co-produced songs from U2's Achtung Baby , working alongside Brian Eno , Daniel Lanois and Flood . That same year he returned to Dublin to produce Engine Alley 's debut album entitled A Sonic Holiday , and Kirsty MacColl again provided additional vocals, this time for

1012-595: The Surrey anthem "Sound of the Suburbs" and protest reggae classic "Offshore Banking Business". Lillywhite along with engineer Hugh Padgham began working with the band XTC in June and July 1979 at Townhouse Studios in London for Virgin Records. The resulting album, Drums and Wires , was released on 17 August 1979 and " Making Plans for Nigel ", the single taken from the album, reached #17 on

1056-438: The Year, also for How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb . In late 2006, he worked with Chris Cornell on his album Carry On , and also produced two songs on Switchfoot 's album, Oh! Gravity. . In February 2007, Lillywhite began work with Crowded House on tracks for Time on Earth , the band's first studio album in fourteen years. The majority of the album was produced by Ethan Johns , but Lillywhite produced four songs with

1100-491: The band's concert repertoire until after the album's release. "Bliss" was not played live by the band until December 30, 2018, 22 years after the release of the album. The album and its title song were named after guitarist Trey Anastasio 's daughter Eliza, who was nicknamed "Billy" as an infant. The album's cover is a close-up shot of bass guitar player Mike Gordon , the first time that any member of Phish had appeared on an album cover. Phish frontman Trey Anastasio recalled in

1144-494: The bird in front or in back of them is going. Musically, each member of Phish knows what the other is doing, which then carries over to the whole. The band can play anything, which then raises the question: Well, what should they play? With Billy Breathes , it's the closest they got to making what I would say is a good stoner album. You know what I mean: you put on the CD, you fire up a big one and you just go down that road. There hadn't been

1188-531: The fall of 2010, Marshall collaborated with CT jam band The McLovins to co-write "Cohesive", recorded with Marshall and Anthony Krizan (of Spin Doctors fame) at Krizan's Sonic Boom studios. In mid-November 2010, Marshall joined his longtime friend Trey Anastasio on stage at the historic Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall Princeton University bringing them back to their roots. Marshall has

1232-458: The full touring line-up, including new drummer Matt Sherrod as well as studio guest guitarist Johnny Marr . Lillywhite's next project was working with Matchbox Twenty on an EP that comprised a portion of Exile on Mainstream , a two-disc album that entered the US charts at No. 3 and Australian charts at No. 1. In 2008, Lillywhite again worked alongside Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois on U2's No Line on

1276-559: The morning. They (management) said, "We NEED a cover tomorrow." You know all those pictures on the back? We cut them out and stuck them on with scotch tape. Mike was on the cover he just shot a picture of himself. The whole thing took like five minutes!" In a 2007 interview, Tom Marshall said that Trey Anastasio thought the album cover of Mike Gordon's face ruined the entire album, a feeling Marshall himself shared as well. Phish : Additional personnel Steve Lillywhite Stephen Alan Lillywhite , CBE (born 15 March 1955)

1320-432: The next part came. It was a lot of wearing headphones while walking around. Cassette player in my pocket. Change a diaper, go to the store, and whenever I can disconnect from whoever I'm talking to in the room, I'd put on my headphones. So the point I'm making is that it still felt like improv." The song "Strange Design", which the band had been playing live since May 1995, was recorded during the Billy Breathes sessions but

1364-460: The official Oasis website announced that Lillywhite was working with Liam Gallagher , Gem Archer , Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock on material for their new band Beady Eye . He co-produced, with the band, the album Different Gear, Still Speeding . Lillywhite produced an album for Evanescence at MSR Studios from February 2010 to April that year, but was scrapped in early 2011. On his work with Evanescence, Lillywhite said: "what happened

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1408-483: The preferred choice by the band. In 2002, Universal Music Group head Lucian Grainge invited Lillywhite to become managing director. Lillywhite signed singer-songwriter Darius Danesh and served as executive producer for his debut album Dive In , which spawned three Top 10 hits, and Mercury Records ' first number one in eighteen years. He also signed Razorlight , and also produced Jason Mraz 's Mr. A-Z . In September 2005, Lillywhite joined Columbia Records as

1452-485: The recommendation of Dave Matthews. Lillywhite had never heard of Phish before he joined the Billy Breathes sessions. He reflected in February 2011: "Phish, for me, are the musical equivalent of watching a flock of birds fly across the sky: They don't scatter every which way, but rather, they move with each other; they dip and dive, they go up and down; but at all times, they seem to have this radar, this instinct, for where

1496-488: The recording of the album, he pioneered (with Gabriel and engineer Hugh Padgham ) the gated reverb drum sound which became a hallmark of Phil Collins ' solo career. Later in the year, Boy , the debut album of U2 , was released, produced by Lillywhite. Lillywhite's collaboration with U2 continued with the albums October and War . He moved on to produce work by Bruce Foxton (of The Jam ), Big Country , XTC , The Chameleons , Toyah , Talking Heads , Eddie and

1540-634: The rock band Amfibian and hosts the Phish podcast Under the Scales . Marshall is the co-founder of Osiris, a podcast network in partnership with Jambase. Marshall attended Princeton Day School in New Jersey with Anastasio. The duo began writing songs together as early as the eighth grade (the reggae tune "Makisupa Policeman" is often regarded as the duo's first collaboration and the very first Phish original song). Other early collaborations include Bivouac Jaun ,

1584-404: The single "Song for Someone". He also produced Travis ' debut album and the debut (and only) album by The La's . In 1996, he produced Phish 's Billy Breathes , and he returned to produce Joy in 2009. Lilywhite was featured as the subject for a BBC Radio 1 documentary series on record producers. In 1999, he produced the US band Guster 's Lost and Gone Forever . In 2000, Lillywhite

1628-468: The song, sacrificing it for the good of the album took a very wide focus – as much thought went into cutting it as went into recording it." Trey Anastasio recalled in a 1997 interview that the cover came together very quickly on the last day of recording. "We finished Billy Breathes and our manager kept saying, "What are you going to do about the cover?" So, finally, it was the LAST day, and it was, like three in

1672-557: Was a few people lost their nerve. I don't even think it was her [ Amy Lee ]. It was people at the record company who really had no other band. They were thinking more in terms of the commerce rather than the art." In 2011, Bono and the Edge brought Lillywhite in to produce the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark cast recording for Interscope . In 2012, Lillywhite was appointed Commander of

1716-730: Was awarded his sixth Grammy Award for his work on Juanes 's album Loco De Amor . That same year, he was credited as a producer on Amy Lee 's cover of Chris Isaak 's "Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing" for her Recover, Vol. 1 EP. The track was originally recorded for Evanescence's original third album produced by Lillywhite in 2010 but it was rejected by their label . In 2016, Lillywhite produced an album by Thai rock band Slot Machine. In April 2017, musician and writer Jon Regen wrote an article for The New York Times profiling Lillywhite and his work bundling recorded CDs with fried chicken in Indonesian KFC restaurants. Lillywhite worked with

1760-485: Was complete and about to be mastered. "Design" was to be the last song on the album – after Caspian. It was a bizarre version that no one ever really got used to. It was funny though – the second they got back to the States and played it in their new acoustic setup it was as strong as ever. It just couldn't be captured in the studio for whatever reason. Cutting it was one of those great decisions – after working so long and hard on

1804-516: Was fired from the fourth album by the Dave Matthews Band after band members cited creative differences. In 2001, a number of their recordings emerged on a bootleg album, known now as The Lillywhite Sessions ; many of the songs from those recordings followed later, on the Dave Matthews Band's album Busted Stuff . The unfinished tracks appeared online, and the majority of the tracks were re-recorded, without Lillywhite, with Stephen Harris as

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1848-560: Was left off the album. The band recorded several versions of the track before settling on a final version. This was later included on the Free European single CD release. Phish lyricist Tom Marshall spoke of the "Strange Design" outtake in 1996: "It was scrapped at the last second. The band was touring in Europe at the time and made the painful decision there – in Italy or France I think. The album

1892-535: Was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to music. Tom Marshall (singer) Tom Marshall is an American lyricist, keyboardist, and singer-songwriter best known for his association with Trey Anastasio and the rock band Phish . He has been the primary external lyricist for Phish during their career (1983–2000, 2002–2004, 2009–present), with songwriting credits for more than 95 originals. In addition to his songwriting work, Marshall also fronted

1936-410: Was recorded as the sun was coming up," said Trey in a 1997 interview. On June 6, 1996, near the end of the sessions, the band played a surprise show in the neighboring town of Woodstock at a local bar called Joyous Lake. In a 2011 interview, Anastasio recalled his method for composing the guitar solo for the track "Billy Breathes": On the song "Billy Breathes" there's a guitar solo I like a lot. That's

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