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Genres
  
Rock, Pop

Parents
  
Eric Shilling

Name
  
George Shilling


Website
  
www.georgeshilling.com

Years active
  
1985–present

Education
  
Royal College of Music


Occupation(s)
  
Record producer, Audio engineer, musician

Instruments
  
Bass, guitar, piano, Keyboards, Cello

Role
  
Musician · georgeshilling.com

Associated acts
  
Gabrielle, Nicole Appleton, Johnny Hallyday

Similar People
  
Eric Shilling, Kenney Jones, John Porter, Gary Langan, Stephen Street

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George Edward Shilling (born 1966 in Redbridge, Essex) is an English musician, record producer, composer and audio engineer. He is the son of Eric Shilling, formerly of the English National Opera and actress Erica Johns. He studied 'cello at the Royal College of Music and is best known as an audio engineer, a skill he was taught by Jerry Boys of Abbey Road and Livingston Recording Studios in London.

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Career

Shilling has worked with a diverse range of musical genres including artists such as Gabrielle, New Radicals, The Corrs, Blur, Texas, Teenage Fanclub, Primal Scream, Nicole Appleton, Johnny Hallyday Oasis, Mike Oldfield, Eternal, Boy George, James Brown, Mark Almond, Bernard Butler, The Fall, Steve Winwood and the popular light opera duo Operababes.

His first notable success was engineering the hit single The Only Way Is Up (1988) by Yazz and the Plastic Population and released by Big Life. His credits as Record producer include the Soup Dragons's album Lovegod which included their cover of the Rolling Stones hit I'm Free and the most accomplished of the three albums My Life Story, The Golden Mile. He wrote a significant amount of songs and also recorded tracks for the English down-tempo band Sundae Club. He co-wrote "London Fantasy" for the French singer Nolwenn Leroy on her album Histoires Naturelles (2005), which was produced by Laurent Voulzy. In 2009 and 2010 he hosted sessions with Ocean Colour Scene at his studio in the Cotswolds. and played cello on their album Saturday. In 2010 he also recorded and mixed Classical Relief For Haiti's single The Prayer, featuring a host of classical crossover artistes including Darius Campbell, Rhydian, Paul Potts and Julian Lloyd Webber.

Percussion, Cello and Keyboard credits

  • 1998 People Move On Bernard Butler (Cello)
  • 2003 Contacto Cabas (Mezcla)
  • 2006 Volume I Billy Bragg (Percussion)
  • 2008 Simple Andy Yorke (Cello, accordion)
  • 2008 Great Unwanted [Bonus Tracks] Lucky Soul (Percussion and keyboards)
  • 2010 Saturday Ocean Colour Scene (Cello)
  • Other credits

  • 2002 Wishbones David Knopfler (Sound Consultant)
  • References

    George Shilling Wikipedia