# John Leckie
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John William Leckie (born 23 October 1949) is an English record producer and recording engineer. His production credits include Magazine's Real Life (1978), XTC's White Music (1978) and Dukes of Stratosphear's 25 O'Clock (1985), the Stone Roses' The Stone Roses (1989), Radiohead's The Bends (1995), Cast's All Change (1995), Muse's Origin of Symmetry (2001) and the Levellers' We the Collective (2018).
== Early life ==
Born in Paddington, London, Leckie was educated at The Quintin School, a grammar school in North West London, then Ravensbourne college of Art and Design in Bromley.
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Ep541: TV Smith - 50 Years of The Adverts
TV Smith joins Nate to discuss the 50th anniversary of The Adverts, an Australian tour backed by The Hard-Ons, and a career full of great songs and terrible label luck.
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TV Smith is touring Australia in April with The Hard-Ons.
The tour celebrates the 50th anniversary of The Adv…
Ep541: TV Smith - 50 Years of The Adverts
TV Smith joins Nate to discuss the 50th anniversary of The Adverts, an Australian tour backed by The Hard-Ons, and a career full of great songs and terrible label luck.
Topics Include:
TV Smith is touring Australia in April with The Hard-Ons.
The tour celebrates the 50th anniversary of The Adv…
Episode 9: Nick Mercer
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Robyn Hitchcock celebrates collapse, polka dots, and new album The Confuser
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John Leckie on Be Bop Deluxe and the Making of Sunburst Finish
John Leckie is one of British rock’s greatest producers, who started out as a tape operator at Abbey
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XTC Record Collector special: behind-the-scenes
Published on 16 July 2026, Record Collector presents… XTC is a whole magazine dedicated to Swindon’s finest. If features interviews with Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding, Dave Gregory and Terry Chambers, as well as insights from Steve Lillywhite, John Leckie, Hugh Padgham, Nick Davis and Mike Batt.
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Z by My Morning Jacket: The Bold, Genre-Hopping Masterpiece That Reinvented 2000s Indie Rock
By 2005, My Morning Jacket was famous for their sprawling, reverb-drenched Southern rock, but they responded to their own growing mythology by releasing a tight, adventurous masterpiece that completely defied expectations. Z traded the muddy, barn-recorded acoustics of their earlier work for a cris…
John Leckie on XTC and The Dukes of Stratosphear
John Leckie joins The Strange Brew to talk through the Dukes of Stratosphear story, from his first sight of a young XTC through to the new Dolby Atmos edition of the complete Dukes recordings.
Leckie was the Abbey Road staff engineer who cut XTC’s 3D EP in three days, then White Music at the Ma…
309b: SATB Special: Ribbons of Rust Book Launch
309b: SATB Special: Ribbons of Rust Book Launch Ribbons of Rust: The Beatles’ Recording History in Context is this first installment of a multi-volume series, building out the history of everything The Beatles did in the recording studio to reveal the influences around them and the world they cre…
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