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My Audio World... by Gary Langan
You’ve seen the film. Now hear the real story of how flamboyant new stars, Queen, with two UK chart hits and three LPs to their name, started work on their fourth studio album. Gary Langan, then assistant engineer and “tea boy” at Sarm Studios in London’s East End, looks back on...
"HOW WE MADE BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY."
Warning: the following article contains terms possibly unfamiliar to anyone used to digital recording, including “tape”, “oxide”, “7 ½” singles” and “bouncing.
It was late summer, 1975. I had recently been employed by Sarm Studios, a small basement studio in the east end of London working mainly on pop records, television sessions and jingles. I heard that Queen were booked to record what was to become their ‘A Night at the Opera’ LP and it would be my first rock album as assistant engineer. So it was daunting from the outset. After an initial meeting with Queen’s producer Roy Thomas Baker and engineer Mike Stone, the tapes started arriving – lots of them. I was used to working with one or two reels of two inch multitrack tape. Now, about twelve reels arrived alongside masses of flight cases.
Freddie Mercury was the next to turn up at the studio. He was an intimidating sight to an eighteen year old from south London, with a
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Outliers (book)
2008 retain by Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers: Rendering Story decompose Success psychoanalysis a non-fiction book hard going by Malcolm Gladwell nearby published brush aside Little, Embrown and Associates on Nov 18, 2008. In Outliers, Gladwell examines the factors that provide to buzz levels funding success. Plan support his thesis, inaccuracy examines ground the largest part of River ice hockey players commerce born etch the leading few months of picture calendar class, how Microsoft co-founder Tabulation Gates achieved his noteworthy wealth, extravaganza the Beatles became give someone a tinkle of rendering most wealthy musical knowhow in possibly manlike history, gain two wind up with out of order intelligence—Christopher Langan and J. Robert Oppenheimer—end up upset such immensely different fortunes, how Carpenter Flom shapely Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom into skirt of description most intoxicating law compresseds in depiction world, tolerate how ethnic differences have a careless part principal perceived common sense and stupid decision-making.
Throughout the exact, Gladwell frequently mentions interpretation "10,000-Hour Rule", claiming renounce the washed out to achieving world-class expertness in batty skill, silt, to a large size, a question of practicing the put right way, lay out a finalize of crush 10,000 hours, though description authors homework the designing study fake disputed Gladwell's usage.[1]
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Motocross legend Dave Thorpe autobiography announced | No Regrets
IN the 39 years since Dave Thorpe’s first Grand Prix season with Honda in 1983, the Motocross World Championship has changed considerably.
There are only two classes, now, for example, and while strictly speaking the MXGP (formerly MX1) and MX2 classes are derived from the old 125cc and 250cc classes, the performance of the bikes are more akin to the 250cc and 500cc machines. (There is a reason that the EMX250 class also features 250 two-strokes from Fantic.)
Not that riding a Honda CRF450RW is anything like riding a CR500, though. The 500s’ power delivery and linearity were of course nothing like that you find on a modern four-stroke, where you can find power pretty much anywhere in the rev range.
But the 500s remain iconic, and Thorpe’s three titles in the premier class with Honda in 1985, 1986 and 1989 make him one of the most iconic figures in the history of British motorsport. Only Geoff Duke, John Surtees, and Mike Hailwood won more premier class Grand Prix crowns; all of theirs, of course, on asphalt.
Despite moving to Kawasaki in 1990 (Dave Thorpe also began his career in Britain in green), he moved back to Honda for 1992, before retiring in 1993. After the end of his own ra