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Denny Cordell (born Dennis Cordell-Laverack, 1 August 1943, Buenos Aires, Argentina — died 18 February 1995, Dublin, Ireland1) was a British record producer and horseracer.
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Career
Cordell grew up in England. He met Chris Blackwell when he was aged twenty one, and started to work for Blackwell's label, Island Records, as a producer. When Cordell started to work more closely with The Moody Blues, he decided to leave Island and become an independent producer.
Cordell produced the Moody Blues' debut album "The Magnificent Moodies" on the Decca record label in 1965. The record contained the hit "Go Now" (produced separately by Alex Wharton), which had been a #1 hit on the UK Singles Chart a year earlier. This was followed up with hits for Cordell producing The Move, Georgie Fame, Procol Harum and Joe Cocker. On the back of his success of iconic 1960s anthems such as Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale" and Joe Cocker's "With a Little Help From My Friends", Cordell moved his operation to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and started up Shelter Records, with session piano player, Leon Russell.
He enjoyed success with Shelter, signing such acts as J. J. Cale, Phoebe Snow, Leon Russell, Joe Cocker, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, amongst others. He is also known as an early mentor of the soon to be famous producer, Tony Visconti.
In the late 1970s he started up the infamous Flippers roller skating boogie palace in Los Angeles, California. In the 1980s he turned to his other interest, horseracing, but in the 1990 he took up producing records again, and once more worked for Island. Among others he helped produce The Cranberries, and Melissa Etheridge's album, Yes I Am.2
He died in February 1995 from lymphoma, at the age of 51. He was the father of musician Tarka Cordell, and Milo Cordell of the band The Big Pink.[1]
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- http://www.answers.com/topic/denny-cordell
- http://www.procolharum.com/procol_dc.htm
- http://www.procolharum.com/procol_tv.htm
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