Reinhold Mack

Reinhold Mack (also known as Mack) is a German record producer and sound engineer. Mack is best known for his collaborations with rock bands Electric Light Orchestra and Queen.^[1] Most of his recordings took place at Giorgio Moroder's Musicland Studios in Munich--which became known outside Germany after Marc Bolan and T. Rex (with producer Tony Visconti) discovered it in 1973.^[2] In 1981 the Queen album The Game brought Mack and the band a Grammy Award nomination for Producer of the Year (Non-Classical).^[3]

Mack's third son, John Frederick Mack, was named by Freddie Mercury and was a godson of both Mercury and Queen bass guitarist John Deacon.^{[citation needed][4]}

Mack is referenced in the lyrics of the Queen song "Dragon Attack" on their 1980 album The Game, which he produced with the band: "gonna use my stack/it's gotta be Mack".^[5]

Selected discography[]

Albums worked on as sound engineer:

• Czesław Niemen (SBB): Strange Is This World (1972)
• Czesław Niemen (SBB): Ode to Venus (1973)
• Amos Key: First Key (1973)
• T.Rex: Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow (1974)
• Deep Purple: Stormbringer (1974)
• Deep Purple: Come Taste the Band (1975)
• Electric Light Orchestra: Face the Music (1975)
• Electric Light Orchestra: A New World Record (1976)
• Sweet: Give Us a Wink! (1976)
• Electric Light Orchestra: Out of the Blue (1977)
• Electric Light Orchestra: Discovery (1979)
• Electric Light Orchestra: Xanadu (1980)
• Electric Light Orchestra: Time (1981)
• Brian May & Friends: Star Fleet Project (1983, Mini Album; mixed by Mack)
• Electric Light Orchestra: Balance of Power (1986)
• Queen: Live Magic (1986; recorded by Mack and David Richards)
• Queen: Live at Wembley '86 (1992; recorded by Mack)
• Queen: Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl (2004; recorded by Mack)
• Queen: Queen Rock Montreal (2007; recorded by Mack)
• Rainbow: Rising (1976)
• Gordian: Madeka (2016)

Albums produced or co-produced by Mack:

• Scorpions: Fly to the Rainbow (1974)
• The Rolling Stones: It's Only Rock 'n Roll (1974)
• Deep Purple: Come Taste the Band (1975)
• Rory Gallagher: Calling Card (1976)
• The Rolling Stones: Black and Blue (1976)
• David Coverdale: White Snake (1977)
• Peter Straker: Real Natural Man (1980)
• Queen: The Game (1980)
• Queen: Flash Gordon (1980)
• After the Fire: 80-f (1980)
• Sparks: Whomp That Sucker (1981)
• Billy Squier: Don't Say No (1981)
• After the Fire: Batteries Not Included (1982)
• Sparks: Angst in My Pants (1982)
• Queen: Hot Space (1982)
• Billy Squier: Emotions in Motion (1982)
• Doc Holliday: Modern Medicine (1983)
• Queen: The Works (1984)
• Roger Taylor: Strange Frontier (1984)
• Meat Loaf: Bad Attitude (1984; produced by Meat Loaf, Paul Jacobs and Mack)
• Freddie Mercury: Mr. Bad Guy (1985)
• BAP: Ahl Männer, aalglatt (1986)
• Queen: A Kind of Magic (1986)
• Extrabreit (German band): Sex after three years in a submarine (1987)
• Heavy Pettin: Lettin Loose (1987; produced by Brian May and Mack)
• Michael White: Michael White (1987)
• Extreme: Extreme (1989)
• It Bites: Eat Me in St. Louis (1989)
• Bonfire: Knock Out (1991)
• Law and Order: Rites of Passage (1991)
• Black Sabbath: Dehumanizer (1992)
• Loud: Psyche 21 (1992)
• SBB: New Century (2005)
• Julian Mack: Have you no decency (2005)
• Liquid Meat: Beat the Meatles (2006)
• The Shazam: M3TEOR (2009)
• Liquid Meat: Maximum Carnage (2009)
• Big Wood: Big Wood (2012)
• Custard: Infested by Anger (2012)
• Symphonika: In Dreams (2013)
• SBB: Za linią horyzontu (Behind the Line of Horizon) (2016)

References[]

External links[]

• Reinhold Mack on Facebook
• Reinhold Mack – TapeOp interview
• Reinhold Mack – iZotope interview