Stuart Bruce

Stuart Robert Bruce (born 20 October 1962) is an English recording engineer. He was the engineer for the recording of the Band Aid's charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" on 25 November 1984. He was born in Northolt, Middlesex.

Bruce started his career at Trevor Horn's Sarm West Studios. When Horn offered Bob Geldof and Midge Ure the studio free of charge for 24 hours to record the charity single, but was unavailable to produce it, Bruce was approached to engineer and mix what became one of the biggest selling singles ever. With many of the most famous artists of the time participating, and seven film crews in attendance, he worked straight through that day and night. He was on his way to the mastering suite the next morning when he heard the song on the radio; Geldof had been given a 1/4 inch stereo tape to take to The Radio 1 Breakfast Show.

The reputation Bruce gained of being able to get a track down in difficult circumstances later led to him being chosen to engineer the Guitar Trio album by Al Di Meola, Paco de Lucía and John McLaughlin.

Bruce has worked with many leading artists from the 1980s onwards, including Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Kate Bush, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, Art Garfunkel, Yes, Van Morrison and Nik Kershaw. He played slide guitar on Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "The Ballad of 32" and his spoken voice can be heard on their cover of "Born to Run".

He was nominated for Best Recording Engineer at the Juno Awards of 1997 for his work with Loreena McKennitt.

Discography Buggles – Adventures In Modern Recording - 1981 Yukihiro Takahashi = 高橋幸宏* – What, Me Worry? ボク、大丈夫!! - 1982 Akira Inoue – Cryptogram - 1982 Monsoon – Third Eye - 1983 The Mood – Passion In Dark Rooms - 1983 Yes – 90125 - 1983 Judith Davidson – Going Places - 1983 Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Welcome To The Pleasuredome - 1984 The Rescue – Messages - 1984 Spælimenninir Í Hoydølum – Á Ferð - 1984 Nik Kershaw – Human Racing - 1984 Various – I Q 6 Zang Tumb Tuum Sampled - 1985 Andrew Poppy – The Beating Of Wings - 1985 Second Image – Strange Reflections - 1985 Nik Kershaw – When A Heart Beats - 1985 Andrew Poppy – The Amusement - 1986 That Petrol Emotion – It's A Good Thing - 1986 That Petrol Emotion – Natural Kind Of Joy - 1986 Nik Kershaw – Radio Musicola - 1986 That Petrol Emotion – Manic Pop Thrill - 1986 杏里 – Trouble In Paradise - 1986 Akira Inoue – Tokyo Installation - 1986 Total Contrast – Kiss - 1987 Total Contrast – Beat To Beat - 1987 Nik Kershaw – James Cagney - 1987 Martin Stephenson and the Daintees – Gladsome, Humour & Blue - 1988 Shriekback – Go Bang! - 1988 Elaine Paige – The Queen Album - 1988 A Brief Conversation Ending In Divorce - David Sylvian - 1989 Barry White – Follow That And See (Where It Leads Y'All) - 1989 Hurrah! – Big Sky - 1989