Foreword, Charlie Seaward
Introduction
Beginnings
Walter's Workshops
1980 Where is It? Well It's Not in Eastcote
1981 The Dudes on Kensal Road
1982 It Was the Last Film I Ever Saw
1983 Over My Dead Body
1984 Who Wants to Buy Half a House in Oxford
1985 You Know What, This Guy is Going to Buy the Studio
1986 There's a New Sheriff in Town
1987 We Did to Warhol What He Did to Bananas
1988 Like Trying to Catch Lightning in a Bottle
1989 The Sort of a Place You Call in on Your Way to Fame
1990 Drummy? He Was Always There
1991 Trip Hop and Synth Riffs
1992 Don't Go Shoplifting at Virgin Records
1993 Mind the Buzzcocks and How to Find Big Good Angel
1994 It's a Giant Blender
1995 The Future is Medium
1996 Sitar and Magic Stones. To Make the Sound More Magic
1997 Everybody Needs a Bosom for a Pillow
1998 Learning from the Maestro
1999 Blow Them Away. Fly Them to the Moon
2000 A Big Crane and the River of Fire
2001 Have You Invented a Genre Lately?
2002 The Cook and the Raconteur
2003 From Havana, Con Calor
2004 What's This? What Is Happening Here!
2005 Things to Do When the Boss Is Asleep on the Sofa
2006 He F***ing Built Himself a Studio He Doesn't Fit in
2007 Can You Send This Back to Them Please?
2008 Did You See Flash?
2009 People the Music Industry's Romance is Built on
2010 3 Million Synthesisers Deep
2011 Facts, Fun and Fusion
2012 A Decapitated Award. And Three Bananas
2013 I Really Don't Like That Guitar Solo
2014 A Bit of Gravitas and No Bullshit
2015 The Neighbourhood Isn't Exactly the Champs-Élysées
2016 If You Take Someone's Heart Out. They Die
2017 We're About to Blow Up the Best Studio of All Time
2018 A Very Specials Year
2019 Experimentation and Mistakes
2020 Weird and the Birth of Zooming
Neatly Folded and Ironed
Picture Credits
Acknowledgements