Mark Opitz
| Mark Opitz | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1952 (age 64–65) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Origin | Sydney, New South Wales |
| Occupation(s) | Record producer, audio engineer |
| Years active | 1971–present |
| Website | markopitz |
Mark Opitz is an Australian record producer and audio engineer who was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1952 and moved to Brisbane in 1959 spending his teenage years there. He is a childhood friend of Kym Gyngell.
Opitz started his career with ABC TV in Sydney in the 1970s and has since gone on to work with many of the great Australian musicians that have graced both the Australian and international music charts for the past 25 years.
When Australia's pre-eminent production team, Vanda and Young, offered Opitz, fresh from his job as at EMI Music (Capitol & Local Artists Label Manager), a position as their apprentice producer he accepted immediately and started working with their artists that included AC/DC, Rose Tattoo and John Paul Young and Flash In The Pan. Opitz learned the skills necessary to be a top music producer through this on the job training.
It was during this period Opitz was given the job of producing Alberts artists The Angels producing theirFace To Face & No Exit albums. Opitz stumbled upon gold by creating The Angels signature, thick guitar sound that ruled Australia's '80s/90s airwaves.
Around this time Warner Music offered Opitz the position as Head of A&R while he was producing the East album for Cold Chisel. He accepted and went on to sign Billy Field, The Divinyls and many others. He also produced further albums for Cold Chisel ( Circus Animals and Swingshift), Richard Clapton (Great Escape), Swanee and the Hitmen.
After leaving corporate A&R Opitz entered into a partnership in the legendary Rhinoceros Studios in Sydney, set up his own production company and went on to produce albums for Jimmy Barnes, INXS' first classic album, Shabooh Shoobah, Models "Out Of Mind Out Of Sight", Hoodoo Gurus "What's My Scene", Australian Crawl's "Reckless", Noiseworks and The Reels as well as many others.
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