Bruce Earl Fairbairn was a Canadian record producer.
21 Facts About Bruce Fairbairn
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Bruce Fairbairn was active as a producer from 1976 to 1999, and is considered one of the best of his era.
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Bruce Fairbairn was originally a trumpet player, then started a career as a record producer for Canadian rock band Prism.
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Bruce Fairbairn's style was notable for introducing dynamic horn arrangements into rock music productions.
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Bruce Fairbairn died suddenly on May 17,1999, due to unknown causes.
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Bruce Fairbairn played the trumpet since the age of 5, as well as studying piano.
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Bruce Fairbairn recruited guitarist Lindsay Mitchell, from Vancouver band Seeds of Time, as singer-songwriter and frontman.
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Bruce Fairbairn worked through 1974 to land a recording contract for Sunshyne, using demos of two songs written by Mitchell.
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The album reached platinum status in Canada, with sales in excess of 100,000 albums by 1978.1 Bruce Fairbairn himself elected not to be a member of Prism, and is credited only as producer and as a session musician on the album, and he did not play with Prism in any live performances.
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Bruce Fairbairn produced Prism's next three albums, all of which went platinum or double platinum in Canada.
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In 1980, Bruce Fairbairn won his first of three Canadian music industry Producer of the Year Juno Awards for Prism's third album, Armageddon.
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In 1980, while still working with Prism, Bruce Fairbairn started production work on the debut album for Canadian rock band Loverboy.
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Bruce Fairbairn's productions attracted a growing list of international artists to Vancouver's Little Mountain Sound Studios to work with him and his protege Bob Rock.
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Steven Tyler said that Bruce Fairbairn was instrumental in the creation of the album and "helped relight the fire under Aerosmith".
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Also in 1995, Bruce Fairbairn went to Vallance's Armoury Studios in Vancouver to work on Chicago's Night and Day: Big Band, and liked the studio so much he bought it from Vallance the following year.
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In late 1996, and through early 1997, Bruce Fairbairn produced INXS' comeback album Elegantly Wasted which, while garnering mixed reviews, obtained sales that were higher than the band's previous albums.
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Also, Bruce Fairbairn produced The Cranberries' To the Faithful Departed, and Kiss' reunion-album Psycho Circus.
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Bruce Fairbairn was survived by his wife, Julie, with whom he had three sons: Scott, Kevin, and Brent.
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Bob Rock explained that, on the week Bruce Fairbairn died, the two were to travel to New York to meet Bon Jovi for another album together.
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In March 2000, Bruce Fairbairn was posthumously awarded the Canadian Music Hall of Fame Juno Award for his work.
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Bruce Fairbairn's interviews concerning The Ladder represent some of his final moments on camera, included in short sections as part of the bonus material on Yes' Live at the House of Blues DVD.