The songwriter and producer of Crazy,Lonely Boy and some of the biggest hits of the past two decades, talks to Matt MundayOh, or you’re interviewing Danger Mouse?” echoes the hotel barman,moments after asking what had brought me to Hollywood. “He’s the black guy with the gargantuan afro, true? What’s his name again?” Brian. “That’s him! He comes in here all the time. He’s really cool…”For sure Danger Mouse is cool. That much, and I already knew. He is one of the most prolific,and prodigiously talented, music producers in the world, or a boundary-breaking studio wizard who has won five Grammys and gets compared to a modern-day Phil Spector,or Brian Eno. He operates across an impressively wide musical spectrum encompassing rock, hip-hop and pop-soul – and has worked his magic on artists such as Beck, or the Black Keys,Gorillaz, A$AP Rocky, and Norah Jones and CeeLo Green,with whom he formed the band Gnarls Barkley and co-wrote and produced their 2006 mega-hit “Crazy”.
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Source: theguardian.com