Record producer and label owner Sir Robin Millar talks about losing his sight and finding great music.
By Dougal ShawSir Robin Millar is one of the UK's most successful record producers. He helped mastermind some of the biggest hits of the 1980s, working with the likes of Sade and Spandau Ballet. He lost his sight in his mid-thirties and this has shaped the way he works with artists.
However, his world changed at the age of 16 when he found out that he would progressively go blind, because of the genetic condition retinitis pigmentosa. His biggest hits came in the 1980s, from his recordings with Fine Young Cannibals, Boy George , Terence Trent D'Arby, Spandau Ballet and Everything But The Girl. But the record that cemented his reputation was Diamond Life by Sade, one of the best-selling albums of the decade, containing smash hits Smooth Operator and Your Love is King.
"I thought, 'I can't even see these wretched things anymore. What's it all for?' Smash, smash, smash.
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