Tony Cohen
| Tony Cohen | |
|---|---|
| Born | 4 June 1957 |
| Genres | Rock |
| Occupation(s) | Record producer, sound engineer |
| Years active | 1975–present |
| Labels | Mushroom, Missing Link |
Tony Cohen (born June 4, 1957) is an Australian music record producer and sound engineer based in Melbourne. Cohen has worked with The Birthday Party and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds from the 1980s. By July 1987 Cohen was living in Germany. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1994 Cohen won Producer of the Year for The Cruel Sea's album, The Honeymoon Is Over (May 1993); at the 1995 ceremony he won Producer of the Year and Engineer of the Year.
Tony Cohen was born on June 4, 1957 and grew up in Melbourne. In 1975 Cohen began working as a sound engineer. In April of the following year he was working at Armstrong Studios with Molly Meldrum, media personality and some-time producer, on Perth's glam-rock group, Supernaut's lead single, "I Like It Both Ways". Cohen produced the group's associated self-titled album and its follow-up single, "Too Hot to Touch".
In July 1976 Cohen and fellow engineer, Ian MacKenzie, met with Meldrum to organise the production of The Ferrets' debut album, Dreams of a Love: "It was all a bit of Elton John, a bit of the 'Real Thing', [Meldrum] called us in for a production meeting 9:00 in the morning at his place and he was still in bed [...] and putting the music on [...] very, very loud and then proceeds to shout at you over the top of it, and we were all sitting there sort of terrified thinking, what on earth is he saying?" After a year production was incomplete so The Ferrets took over, together with Cohen and MacKenzie; it was finalised in August 1977 and released in October.
In June 1978 Cohen started working with The Boys Next Door (later known as The Birthday Party), as engineer at Richmond Recorders on their debut album, Door, Door (1979), then their early EP, Hee Haw (December 1979) and, as engineer-producer, on their second album, The Birthday Party (November 1980). The group's leader, Nick Cave, used Cohen as engineer or producer for almost two decades with his next group, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, from From Her to Eternity (18 June 1984) to No More Shall We Part (2 April 2001).
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