1. Joe Boyd was born on August 5,1942 and is an American record producer and writer.
14 Facts About Joe Boyd
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Joe Boyd was one of the founders of the highly influential nightclub venue UFO.
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Joe Boyd was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Joe Boyd first became involved in music promoting blues artists while a student at Harvard University.
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Joe Boyd was responsible for the sound at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, when Bob Dylan played a controversial set backed by electric musicians.
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In 1964 Joe Boyd moved to London to establish the UK office of Elektra Records.
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Joe Boyd produced the first single "Arnold Layne" by UFO regulars Pink Floyd, and recordings by Soft Machine.
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Joe Boyd worked extensively with audio engineer John Wood at Sound Techniques studio in Chelsea.
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Joe Boyd returned to the United States at the end of 1970 to work as a music producer for Warner Bros.
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Joe Boyd contributed to the soundtrack of Deliverance, directed by John Boorman, where he supervised the recording of "Dueling Banjos", which became a hit single for Eric Weissberg.
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Joe Boyd produced and co-directed the film documentary Jimi Hendrix.
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Joe Boyd subsequently founded the Hannibal Records label in 1980, which released albums by Richard Thompson and many recordings of world music, including Hungarian band Muzsikas.
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Joe Boyd was executive producer for the 1989 feature film Scandal, starring John Hurt and Bridget Fonda about the Profumo affair in UK politics in 1963.
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In 2008, Joe Boyd was a judge for the 7th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists.