Producer, composer and arranger David Lord is one of the most successful people working in the UK music industry. The long list of famous artists and bands he’s worked with including Peter Gabriel, Peter Hammill, Jean-Michel Jarre, John Renbourn, Tori Amos, Tears For Fears, Icicle Works, The Pretenders, and Echo and the Bunnymen -- testifies to this. Given his impressive pedigree, and given that he has been at the heart of some of the most important developments in British music, it’s a little odd that Lord is also one of its most elusive figures. He rarely gives interviews, and these days spends most of his time out of the limelight, working in the appropriately-named Terra Incognita studio on TV soundtracks, or non-mainstream recording and production jobs. Moreover, his career to date has followed a complicated zig-zag pattern, from respected classical composer, by way of folk music home recordist, commercial rock studio owner, record company boss and producer, to his current work. Small wonder that he’s a bit of an enigma to most.