David Hentschel

In 1988, Hentschel produced and engineered the Grammy Award-winning album Politics, by the jazz fusion band Yellowjackets.

Relocating to Los Angeles in 1985, he established one of the first dedicated MIDI studios and worked with Ensoniq on developing instruments and custom sounds. Now living back in England he continues to produce, compose and arrange on both sides of the Atlantic.

In 1982, Hentschel collaborated with lyricist Don Black on a song cycle album for Marti Webb to follow her success with Tell Me on a Sunday. I'm Not That Kind of Girl was released in 1983. Despite including the talent of Phil Collins on drums and Kiki Dee on backing vocals, it failed to chart and was Webb's last album for Polydor.

In 1975, he recorded 'Oh My My', an instrumental/keyboard version of Ringo Starr's 1973 song.

Hentschel also wrote the scores for the Lewis Gilbert films Operation Daybreak (1975), Seven Nights in Japan (1976), Educating Rita (1983) and The Squeeze (1977).

After leaving Trident in 1974, he produced his own album Sta*rtling Music for Ringo Starr's short-lived record label, Ring O' Records, consisting of a song-by-song, instrumental cover of Starr's album Ringo and featuring performances by Phil Collins, David Cole, Ronnie Caryl, John Gilbert (the son of Lewis Gilbert) and Starr. He then began a successful collaboration with the band Genesis which resulted in four albums beginning with A Trick of the Tail in 1976 and continuing through Duke in 1980.

David Hentschel (born 18 December 1952) is an English recording engineer, film score composer and music producer who engineered on George Harrison's All Things Must Pass and Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, as well as with artists including Genesis, Tony Banks, Ringo Starr, Queen, Nazareth, Marti Webb, Andy Summers, Mike Oldfield, Renaissance, Peter Hammill and Ronnie Caryl.