Daniel Kevin Daly (he never used his first name) was born in north-west London on 15th April 1942, the first child of Daniel and Eva; he had a strict religious upbringing, his father being a devout (some might say obsessive) Catholic, who had settled in England after making the crossing from Dublin to Liverpool in the 1920s.
Read More“In 1957, I started work at the Decca studios, as a sort of assistant office-boy and have been part of the record industry ever since as a recording engineer, record producer and record company executive.”
Read MoreKevin had now begun to write. He had been planning for some time a history of sound recording itself, going back to its roots, with Edison, the Phonograph and recordings of Gladstone, Florence Nightingale and Sir Arthur Sullivan. Kevin was intending to have it released as an LP.
Read MoreAfter the Decca takeover, Kevin and Harley had immediate discussions, wondering what they could do next. They decided to launch a kind of ‘Argo, Mk.2’. or at least that’s how it seemed in the beginning. They were joined by classical record man Jack Boyce, and in 1981 launched a new record label: ASV (Academy Sound and Vision).
Read MoreIn March 1989, Kevin returned for a short visit to the UK. One of the reasons for the trip was to finalise plans for setting up a studio, an idea he’d been thinking about for over a year. The idea was to invest in new equipment - studio space, microphones, mixers, monitors, outboard equipment.
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