Bob Clearmountain Receives Top Music Producers Guild Award

30 March 2023 - Press release

The Music Producers Guild are delighted to honour recording engineer, mixer and record producer, Bob Clearmountain with the Icon Award, sponsored by Solid State Logic. This is a brand-new award gifted by the MPG and presented to a person who is an Icon of the Recording Business.

Bob is one of the most respected producers in contemporary pop, well known for his work with major acts, including Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, Toto, Bon Jovi and Bryan Adams. He has been nominated for four Grammy Awards and won a Latin Grammy Award for his work engineering Ricky Martin’s MTV Unplugged.

Cameron Craig, Executive Director of the MPG said: "The MPG is incredibly proud to be awarding Bob Clearmountain the MPG Icon Award. Bob has been absolutely instrumental in creating the landscape of modern production by defining the role of the dedicated mix engineer, freeing up producers and writers to work how they see fit, knowing that their work will be accurately represented and enhanced on the final record. A lot of us literally wouldn’t be doing what we do if it wasn’t for Bob. A true icon."

Ross Gilbert, Head of Marketing from Solid State Logic commented: “The MPG and Solid State Logic have work closely together for many years. Their support of both immerging and established, producers and engineers not only provides a platform to represent them and their work within the industry, but as an ever -growing community to a wider audience. Something which is vital for the continued success of the recording industry. Solid State Logic are delighted to sponsor the new ‘Icons’ Award as this gives an opportunity to highlight some of the industries pioneers who have helped defined much of what we do today.” 

In their 15th year, the awards will take place on the 27th April at The Tower Hotel St Katharine’s Way, London E1W 1LD. Tickets are on-sale now. This year will see new style awards produced by manufacturer of professional recording microphones, Neumann.

Stephen Button at Neumann said: “We are thrilled and excited to start this partnership with MPG and their yearly awards ceremony. Having our trophies given to some of the best producers, mixers, recording engineers, re-mixers and programmers in the world, is a real honour.

World renowned audio brand Bowers & Wilkins, widely revered for its industry-leading loudspeakers, headphones and other audio equipment, has been announced as sponsor for the prestigious Album of The Year Award. Previous award winners include, Little Simz: 'Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, Michael Kiwanuka 'Kiwanuka and 1975 A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships.

Giles Pocock, Vice President of Brand Marketing, Bowers & Wilkins, added: “We are immensely proud to be supporting the MPG Awards, celebrating the talented producers and engineers behind some of the most important and successful music of the past 12 months.” 

“For over 40 years, Bowers & Wilkins’ connection with music creation has been deeply intertwined with the work of producers and engineers around the world, so it feels fitting to be able to play a small part in helping to shine a light on their many achievements.” 

The third and final gifted award, The MPG Inspiration Award (sponsored by Audio Note) will be announced in the coming weeks, with the remaining award winners announced at the ceremony on the 27th April.

Previous MPG award winners include Paul Epworth (Adele), Nile Rodgers, FKA Twigs, Marta Salogni (Björk, Animal Collective, Anna Meredith and Bon Iver), Dr Susan Rodgers (Prince) and Joan Armatrading.