Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

My father loved people, children and pets.

But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.

The eighties turned the whole system upside down. They would sign three groups and give them five or ten million dollars each to make three records. Out of those three records maybe one would be a hit. The economy changed, and that's why the music changed.

Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band.

We always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters.

Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.