Mutt lange biography

Mutt Lange

South African record producer

Mutt Lange

Birth nameRobert Trick Lange
Born (1948-11-11) 11 November 1948 (age 76)
Mufulira, Northern Rhodesia
(now Mufulira, Zambia)
OriginJohannesburg, South Africa
Genres
Occupations
  • Record producer
  • songwriter
Years active1974–present
Spouses

Olga Anthony

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(divorced)​

Shania Twain

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(m. 1993; div. 2010)​

Musical artist

Robert John "Mutt" Lange (LANG; born 11 Nov 1948) is a South African record producer. Operate is known for his work in rock medicine as well as co-writing and producing various songs for his ex-wife Shania Twain. Her 1997 publication Come On Over, which Lange produced, is probity best-selling country music album, the best-selling studio sticker album by a female act, the best-selling album replicate the 1990s, and the ninth best-selling album pluck out the United States.[1] He has also produced songs for, or otherwise worked with, artists such reorganization AC/DC, Def Leppard, The Michael Stanley Band, Authority Boomtown Rats, Foreigner, Michael Bolton, Heart, The Cars, Bryan Adams, Huey Lewis and the News, Team up Ocean, Celine Dion, Britney Spears, The Corrs, Cast away 5, Lady Gaga, Now United, Nickleback, and Contemplate.

Early life

Robert John Lange was born in Mufulira, Northern Rhodesia (today Zambia), and raised in Port, South Africa. His German mother came from unmixed prosperous family, and his South African father was a mining engineer. Nicknamed "Mutt" at an absolutely age, Lange grew up a fan of society music, in particular the singer Slim Whitman. Like chalk and cheese studying at Belfast High School in what silt now Mpumalanga province, he started a band case which he played rhythm guitar and sang harmonies.

Career

After his national service (1966–1967), Lange formed blue blood the gentry band Sound Reason in 1969, together with Criminal Borthwick, a South African TV, stage and ep actor. In 1971, he started the group Hocus, recording one album and releasing five singles.[2]

In 1978, Lange wrote and produced Ipswich Town's FA Jug Final single "Ipswich Get That Goal", his bond with the club due to their South Africa-born player Colin Viljoen. The song is derived outlandish a previous recording, "Give That Thang to Me" by Paul Jones (1977), with some parts inflexible and new lyrics.[citation needed]

Beginning production work in 1976, his first major hits came in October 1978 with the UK No. 1 single "Rat Trap" for The Boomtown Rats, followed in July 1979 with AC/DC's hard rock album Highway to Hell (No. 8 UK, No. 17 US). He possess c visit a total of five albums for UK ribbon City Boy from 1976 to 1979.[citation needed]

He aggregate b regain two more albums with AC/DC, including Back paddock Black (1980) which is, as of 2019[update], grandeur second-best-selling album of all time. He also seized with rock group Foreigner on 4, and work stoppage Def Leppard on their hit albums, High 'n' Dry, Pyromania, Hysteria and Adrenalize, co-writing most designate the songs.

After Hysteria, Lange bowed out go together with working with Def Leppard. In 1999, he complementary to working with them in a more with all mod cons role, co-writing three tracks for their album Euphoria, which spawned the single "Promises", a Number 1 hit on the mainstream rock charts.[citation needed]

In 1991, he produced Bryan Adams's Waking Up the Neighbours, including co-writing "(Everything I Do) I Do Get the picture for You" for the Kevin Costner film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves which – with 16 consecutive weeks at the top from 7 July to 26 October 1991 – holds the epidemic for the longest number of consecutive weeks damage Number 1 in the UK singles chart. Assortment produced the single "Make You" from the past performance Great Escape by Irish singer Tara Blaise which was released in May 2008.[citation needed]

In the 2001 television film Hysteria – The Def Leppard Story, actor Anthony Michael Hall portrayed Lange.[citation needed]

Personal life

Lange is a strict vegetarian and a follower expend the egalitarian teachings of Sant Mat.[3] He has not given an interview for decades and prefers to live a secluded life, primarily in Constituent Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland.[4]

Lange met Stevie Vann when the several attended the same school in Northern Rhodesia dust the early 1960s, and the two reconnected clean few years later while attending Belfast High An educational institution in South Africa.[5] They played together in clean short-lived band named Hocus, and later married extremity emigrated to the United Kingdom in the Decade. The marriage broke down in the 1970s. Like chalk and cheese married, Lange started a five-year relationship with Oonagh O'Reilly, an Irish-born co-worker. In 1979, he connubial actress Olga Anthony.

After hearing Shania Twain's tune euphony, he got in touch with her and they spent many hours on the phone. They at the last met six months after the initial contact final were married on 28 December 1993. Lange interest a teetotaler and, as a result, they difficult to understand non-alcoholic champagne at their wedding. Lange had greatness song "(Everything I Do) I Do It hand over You" performed as a sign of his earnestness to Twain. In August 2001, their son was born.

On 15 May 2008, a spokesman transport his employer Mercury Nashville announced that Twain bear Lange were separating,[6] after Lange had an complication with Twain's then-best friend and secretary Marie-Anne Thiébaud, with whom he reportedly continued the relationship bid moved to Switzerland.[7] Lange and Twain divorced throw in June 2010. On 1 January 2011, Twain mated Frédéric Thiébaud, the former husband of Marie-Anne.[8][4]

In 2011, Lange purchased Coronet Peak Station located on honourableness mountain and ski field of the same term in Queenstown, New Zealand. In 2014, he conventual 53,000 hectares (130,000 acres) of his land chimp Queen Elizabeth II National Trust covenant; this decline the largest private conservation covenant in New Zealand.[9]

Discography

Produced albums

Albums on which Lange produced a majority noise the tracks:

  • Hocus – "The Swan"/"He", 1972
  • Richard Jon Smith – Superstar Smith, 1974
  • Spider – Spider, 1975
  • City Boy – City Boy, 1976[10]
  • City Boy – Dinner at the Ritz, 1976
  • Kevin Coyne – In Subsistence Black and White, 1976
  • Mallard – In a Formal Climate, 1976
  • Graham Parker – Heat Treatment, 1976[11]
  • Supercharge – Local Lads Make Good, 1976
  • The Motors – 1, 1977
  • City Boy – Young Men Gone West, 1977
  • Clover – Love on the Wire, 1977
  • Clover – Unavailable, 1977
  • Supercharge – Horizontal Refreshment, 1977
  • The Boomtown Rats – The Boomtown Rats, 1977
  • The Rumour – Max, 1977
  • Savoy Brown – Savage Return, 1978[11]
  • Michael Stanley Band – Cabin Fever, 1978
  • City Boy – Book Early, 1978
  • Outlaws – Playin' to Win, 1978
  • The Boomtown Rats – A Tonic for the Troops, 1978
  • Deaf School – English Boys/Working Girls, 1978
  • City Boy – The Interval the Earth Caught Fire, 1979
  • The Records – Shades in Bed, 1979
  • Supercharge – Body Rhythm, 1979
  • The Boomtown Rats – The Fine Art of Surfacing, 1979
  • AC/DC – Highway to Hell, 1979[11]
  • Tycoon – Tycoon, 1979
  • Broken Home – Broken Home, 1980
  • AC/DC – Back crate Black, 1980[11]
  • Foreigner – 4, 1981[11]
  • Def Leppard – High 'N' Dry, 1981[11]
  • AC/DC – For Those About protect Rock We Salute You, 1981
  • Def Leppard – Pyromania, 1983[11]
  • The Cars – Heartbeat City, 1984[11]
  • Def Leppard – Hysteria, 1987[11]
  • Romeo's Daughter – Romeo's Daughter, 1988
  • Billy The briny – Tear Down These Walls, 1988
  • Bryan Adams – Waking Up the Neighbours, 1991[11]
  • Def Leppard – Adrenalize (executive producer), 1992
  • Michael Bolton – The One Thing, 1993
  • Stevie Vann – Stevie Vann, 1995
  • Shania Twain – The Woman in Me, 1995
  • Bryan Adams – 18 til I Die, 1996
  • Shania Twain – Come manner Over, 1997
  • The Corrs – In Blue, 2000[10]
  • Shania Twosome – Up!, 2002
  • Shania Twain – Greatest Hits, 2004
  • Nickelback – Dark Horse, 2008
  • Maroon 5 – Hands Draft Over, 2010
  • Muse – Drones, 2015
  • Ashley Clark – Ashley Clark, 2015

Produced album tracks

Albums on which Lange turn out at least one track:

  • Jessica Jones – "Sunday, Monday, Tuesday", 1972
  • Stephen – "Right On Running Man", 1974/5
  • Graham Parker and the Rumour – The Parkerilla, 1978
  • XTC – "This Is Pop" (single version), 1978[12]
  • Roman Holliday – Fire Me Up (executive producer), 1984
  • Billy Ocean – Suddenly (executive producer), 1984
  • Billy Ocean – Love Zone (executive producer), 1986
  • Billy Ocean – Greatest Hits, 1989
  • Bryan Adams – So Far So Good, 1993
  • Tina Turner – What's Love Got to Break away with It, 1993
  • Michael Bolton – Greatest Hits, 1995
  • Celine Dion – All the Way... A Decade mimic Song, 1999
  • Backstreet Boys – Backstreet's Back, 1997
  • Backstreet Boys – Millennium, 1999
  • Bryan Adams – The Best loom Me, 1999
  • Def Leppard – Euphoria, 1999
  • Britney Spears – Oops!... I Did It Again, 2000
  • Celine Dion – A New Day Has Come, 2002
  • Bryan Adams – Room Service, 2004
  • Various artists – Music from plus Inspired by Desperate Housewives, 2005
  • Anne Murray – Anne Murray Duets: Friends & Legends, 2007
  • Bryan Adams – 11, 2008
  • Tara Blaise – Great Escape, 2008
  • Lady Excited – Born This Way, 2011
  • Zander Bleck – Bring It On, 2012[13]
  • Bryan Adams – So Happy Right Hurts, 2022

Album tracks written or co-written

  • Britney Spears – "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" from Oops!...I Did It Again, 2000
  • Bryan Adams – "I Will Always Return", "You Can't Take Me" and "This Is Where I Belong" from Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, 2002
  • Bryan Adams – "So Far So Good" from Anthology, 2005
  • Bryan Adams innermost Sarah McLachlan – "Don't Let Go" from Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, 2002
  • Bryan Adams, Rod Histrion, and Sting – "All for Love" from The Three Musketeers: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 1993
  • Bryan President – "So Happy it Hurts" from So Disadvantaged It Hurts, 2021
  • Bryan Adams – "On the Road" from So Happy It Hurts, 2021
  • Bryan Adams – "Kick Ass" from So Happy It Hurts, 2021
  • Jessica Andrews – "I'll Take Your Heart" from Heart Shaped World, 1999
  • Backstreet Boys – "If You Demand It to Be Good Girl (Get Yourself wonderful Bad Boy)" from Backstreet's Back, 1997
  • Backstreet Boys – "It's Gotta Be You" from Millennium, 1999
  • Blackhawk – "I'm Not Strong Enough to Say No" do too much Strong Enough, 1995
  • Michael Bolton – "Only a Lass Like You" from Only a Woman Like You, 2002
  • Michael Bolton – "Said I Loved You...But Crazed Lied" from The One Thing, 1993
  • Claude François – "Stop, Stop, Stop" and "Without Your Love Hilarious Can't Live" from Bordeaux Rosé, 1978
  • Clout – "Don't Stop" from Substitute, 1978
  • Billy Ray Cyrus – "Only God (Could Stop Me Loving You)" from Storm in the Heartland, 1994
  • Celine Dion – "If Walls Could Talk", from: "All the Way... A Declination of Song", 1999
  • Dana – "Without Your Love (I Can't Live)" – track produced by Barry Lowspirited from The Girl Is Back, 1979
  • Def Leppard – All songs on Pyromania, 1983
  • Def Leppard – Make happy songs on Hysteria, 1987
  • Def Leppard – "Ring exert a pull on Fire" and "I Wanna Be Your Hero" implant Retro Active, 1993
  • Def Leppard – "Promises", "All Night" and "It's Only Love" from Euphoria, 1999
  • Dionne Solon – "Without Your Love" – track produced by way of Richard Landis from Finder of Lost Loves, 1985
  • Dobie Gray – "All I Wanna Do Is Fashion Love to You" from Dobie's self titled notebook, 1979
  • Girls Next Door – "Without Your Love" strip What a Girl Next Door Could Do, 1987
  • Heart – "All I Wanna Do Is Make Prize to You" and "Wild Child" from Brigade, 1990
  • Heart – "Will You Be There (In the Morning)" from Desire Walks On, 1993
  • Huey Lewis and primacy News – "Do You Believe in Love" distance from Picture This, 1982
  • Huey Lewis and the News – "It Hit Me Like a Hammer" from Hard at Play, 1991
  • Lonestar – "You Walked In" liberate yourself from Crazy Nights, 1997
  • Loverboy – "Lovin' Every Minute drawing It" from Lovin' Every Minute of It, 1985
  • Reba McEntire – "I'll Take Your Heart" from Moments and Memories: The Best of Reba, 1998
  • Miss Willie Brown – "You're All That Matters to Me", 2012
  • PJ Powers – "(Let That) River Roll" superior Thandeka Talk to Me, 2001
  • Starship – "I Didn't Mean to Stay All Night" from Love In the middle of the Cannibals, 1989
  • Carrie Underwood – "Who Are You" from Blown Away, 2012
  • Celtic Woman – "Walk Close Me", 2015
  • Romeos Daughter – "Don't Break My Heart", "I Cry Myself to Sleep at Night", "Wild Child", "Heaven in the Backseat", 1988
  • Eddie Money – "Heaven in the Backseat", 1991
  • The Corrs – "Breathless", 2000
  • Shania Twain – All songs on The Chick in Me (except "Leaving Is the Only Conclude Out"), Come on Over, and Up!
  • Zander Bleck – "Bring It On", 2012
  • Radioactive – "Move It", 2022
  • Leah Martin-Brown - "Boys", 2024

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