Rod Gammons, Producer/Songwriter
Rod Gammons, Songwriter and Producer, has established himself as one of the leading producers in the UK. Recent productions include the chart-topping smash hit singles from Liberty X “ A Night To Remember†chosen as the BBC’s official Children In Need single 2006, and “Got To Have Your Love†taken from the multi platinum album “Thinking It Overâ€. Rod also produced & wrote the B Side "Everything" for this chart topping single (V2 Records).Rod has produced, written & engineered many household names including Wyclef Jean (Fugees), Sonique (Universal) Mark Morrison (Death Row), Gabrielle (Parlophone). Wyclef Jean of the Fugees who recently worked with Rod on a music cue with artists Melky & Sedeck for a new Columbia movie, recording and mixing this soundtrack at with rod Rod at his former fully loaded Neve flying fader million pound recording studio complex in London , Planet Audio Studios.
Rod co wrote & produced the killer single "Sista Sista" for Beverley Knight’s “Prodigal Sista†platinum album (Parlophone). Other recent credits include Roachford’s single "From Now On" (Columbia) which was written and produced by Rod. Rod also produced Mark Morrison’s recent Album for Death Row including the singles "Playa Hata", "Innocent Man" and "Best Friend" which featured the international stars Gabrielle and Connor Reeves. Rod also co-wrote the song 'Private Glory' on Heather Small's new album 'Close to a Miracle' (Sony BMG). Rod's song 'I Choose you' is also featured on Paulini's new album 'Superwoman'(Sony BMG), Australia's new Platinum selling Pop senstation . Further credits include various albums & singles with legendary artistes like All Saints, Cheryl Lynn, Oleta Adams, Ultravox, Imagination, Jaki Graham, Worlds Apart, Was Not Was, 10CC, Bronski Beat, David Sneddon, Michael Ball, Junior Giscombe & David Hasselhoff to name just a few.
Rod has his own production and mixing studio in north London, which is equipped with the latest recording toys and gadgets. Planet Audio Studios has the largest pro tools rig in Europe together with a flying fader Yamaha DM2000 96 channel Digital production Console, TC System 6000 Reverb and too many other toys to mention.
Rod has also been featured Composer creating award winning scores for a number of Hollywood Motion Pictures including "Within The Rock" (Alliance), a sci-fi thriller. The Never Ending Story part 3 (Warner) contains Rod's song & production "Fire" (performed by German rock artists ShyBoy).TV & Commercials work includes a Compaq TV commercial, a highly successful campaign. The Australian TV soap hit Paradise Beach, which contains seven of Rods songs, which he also produced. Further TV credits include a long running Seagram's whisky commercial with "My Discarded Men" written and produced by Rod, which also features Eartha Kitt.
Next Up:
Rod is currently in the studio writing and producing Leon Lopez (Holloaks in the City/ Soapstar Superstar) , the fabulous French newcomer duo ‘W’, Rapture (Sony), David Sneddon, (Universal) Sugababes. (Island) Keisha (WEA) and various writing projects with, Michael Jay (J Lo), Steve Duberry (Tina Turner), Hawk Wolinski “Ain’t No Body†Rufus & Chaka Khan and many, many more...Here's just some of the artists and the songs I've been involved with :-