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Floyd/Waters engineer Nick Griffiths passes away Print E-mail
Written by Matt   
Sunday, 10 April 2005

Well-respected, top English producer/engineer Nick Griffiths, long time associate of Pink Floyd and Roger Waters, sadly passed away on March 20th, aged 53, following complications after a transplant operation, it has been confirmed. The funeral near his Sussex home in England took place in private, with many of his friends and colleagues in attendance.

The ex-Britannia Row engineer worked on David Gilmour's eponymous 1978 album, then on the band's "The Wall" album (1979), before concentrating on their solo albums - Nick Mason & Rick Fenn's "Profiles" (1985), Roger's "When The Wind Blows" (1986), "Radio KAOS" (1987), "The Wall Live In Berlin" (1990) and "Amused To Death" (1992).

However, Griffiths also had a long career working with other artists - Richard Thompson, Joy Division, Squeeze, Killing Joke, John Peel's Peel Sessions, and engineered Queen's legendary 1973 BBC sessions.

Griffiths also was instrumental in building Roger Waters home studio and Brittania Row Studios in England. Grififths also toured with Roger Waters as Sound Production Engineer.

One of Griffiths defining moments was coming up with the idea of the "kid's choir" on "Another Brick In The Wall pt 2". One day in the autumn of 1979, Griffiths arrived at Islington Green School, asking to see the music teacher. He said that he was up against a deadline and needed some children to sing on a record that he was mixing at a studio nearby. Alun Renshaw, the school's head of music, rounded up a dozen children that he knew could sing, and put it to them: would they like to be on a record by one of the greatest British bands of the era - Pink Floyd? The rest was history...

We have posted a tribute to Nick in our obituary section.

 
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