As long as there is music - rock, funk, punk, soul - whatever the shrink-wrap savants of the record companies package - the artist
they invariably turn to is DAVID TICKLE. His story - filled with derring-do, determination, hard work, and much magic - is not
unlike a classic Horatio Alger tale. Perhaps one of the reasons that Tickle is so secure with his own convictions is his background built
on a path of conscious determination.

David Tickle is a 22 year veteran in the industry. This renaissance man of music has clocked some major miles on the verb "to be". Rarely has a single producer had more musical impact on the seventies, eighties, nineties, and now the new millennium. His credits read like an encyclopedia of rock and roll: PRINCE (co-produced and mixed six albums), U2 (co-produced/mixed Rattle and Hum), STING, POLICE, JOE COCKER, GEORGE MICHAEL, PETER GABRIEL, JACKSON BROWNE, BLONDIE, SPLIT ENZ, 4 NON-BLONDES to name just a few. Tickle's musical gifts are uncanny - strung out on as they are on a high wire of brilliant couplings of white and black, male and female, flesh and spirit, rock hard earthly rhythms and pure celestial sound. By the late-seventies, there was no denying David Tickle on the English musical scene, no holding him back. The Brit wit was that good, that out there. Tickle was born in Guildford, Surrey, the only son of a university professor father, and an artistic mother. David starting "seeing" music from the time he was 7 years old. By the ripe old age of 14 he had ingratiated himself to many rock regulars by helping out backstage.

It was also at this time that he came upon the London stage with his riveting photographs of the English musical scene. He mailed his photos to MILES COPELAND who, impressed with their quality, asked to be introduced to the photographer. Astounded by Tickle's young age, he made him house photographer and gave the young boy free passes to concerts and pocket money. By 16, Tickle started mixing live for MAHAVISHNU, amazing himself and everyone else with his instant grasp of all the band's original instruments. The band became the granddaddy of fusion sound. Next assignment was the famed Zodiac Studio where he mixed three number one hit singles for LIVERPOOL EXPRESS. A fortuitous incident introduced him to Indigo Studios in Manchester where, with educated instinct, he was able to show them how to operate a new and very expensive in-line console. By now, David was a highly respected sound engineer who was producing music. Going to London to with RINGO STARR's record company. Though they didn't like the band itself, they loved the production qualities and engineering. Ringo's producer TERRY MELCHER recognized Tickle's talent and offered him a job and salary he couldn't resist. He worked his way up with relentless energy and by now was the sole living resident of JOHN LENNON's huge 82 acre home, Tittenhurst Park in Ascott. David discovered SPLIT ENZ and Music Week (Britain's Billboard) pronounced him the best engineer in the biz. America and BLONDIE beckoned and Tickle came to work Heart of Glass , Parallel Lines and Eat to the Beat . Tickle took the cat-call of DEBORAH HARRY's voice and made it an anthem for club kittens everywhere. With THE KNACK, and his brilliant recording of My Sharona , David's savvy sound waves were soon knocking the crew socks off teenagers everywhere. He returned to tour with BLONDIE and when the tour was over Paul Schindler, rock and roll's famous entertainment attorney, contacted Tickle and asked him to produce SPLIT ENZ . With their album TRUE COLOURS, a Tickle favorite because of its very visual sound, David made rock and roll history by being the youngest person ever to produce a multi-platinum album.... all before the age of 18. With his magnum opus PETER GABRIEL world tour in 1983, Tickle made a crater deep and wide. PRINCE came to see the show and was conquered. Tickle's intruder-gated reverb sound inspired Prince to go home that very night and pen his staggeringly beautiful When Doves Cry . His next albums with Prince proved Tickle to be an unharnessed musical visionary. He stayed with Prince for two years, designing the layout for Paisley Park Studios. Next came GENESIS' HBO Special, an hour of exquisitely tempered white soul. ROD STEWART, ERIC JOHNSON and TONI CHILDS albums soon followed. Now, no longer smitten with Britain, Tickle decided to make America his forever home. Jimmy Iovine, president of Interscope Records, asked Tickle to make U2's RATTLE AND HUM, together the music soon set the scene for the creative irreverence that swept the musical world in the eighties. Next came the DIVINYLS hottest hit I Touch Myself with the challenging yet accessible, rhythmic, yet never predictable sounds. The year 1991 was a creative nirvana for Tickle, producing musical giants like ELTON JOHN's Two Rooms , JOE COCKER's Night Calls and 4 NON-BLONDES, establishing yet another musical beachhead for the artist. compositions all proved to be a brilliant amalgam of rock, fusion and classic styling. No tricks were played and no stops left unplugged. His music strolls from the romantic to the aggressive always producing spiritually rich sensations.

It's a long way from producing music to directing movies - or is it? But not for a moment has Tickle paused to contemplate his success as a musical Galahad. Instead, he is single-mindedly parlaying his fame and knowledge into the cinema. With movies on his mind . He intends to make precisely the kind of movies Hollywood doesn't make yet. Movies with spirituality and a conscience; an existential linkage. In a town that continues to mimic its own latest garbage, Tickle is interested in making personal, principled films, inspired by the deeper desires and needs of individuals. As comfortable with inner space as he is with cyber space, Tickle differs from the current crop of cyberpunk directors who wish to define future man as something that blurs the boundaries between humans and machine. Tickle's take provides a kind of spiritual counterbalance to the greed and speed of corporate Hollywood. He is determined to erase the collective cultural coma of the last decades where humans were missing in inaction. Like Richard Wagner, Tickle envisions cinema as something he calls a Gesamtkunstwerk - an all encompassing work of art that melds cinema, music, poetry, drama, and spirituality into one glorious, unified scenario. In person, Tickle is soft-spoken and humble, and he is obviously a man with vision and mission; but what is most striking about him is his willingness to put his money, his mouth, his time, his energy, his intelligence and his expertise more fervently into the causes he believes in. That conviction comes from a single source: the steadfast belief in the eternal bonds of family and responsibility to mankind. Somewhere between John Lennon and Rod Stewart, Tickle met the love of his life, beautiful Ann West and together they live, along with their two adorable children, in Spartan graciousness on their 18 acre ranch on the North Shore of Kauai . As close as two ends of a scissors, Ann and David are developing many future projects together. Tickle has written a screenplay adapted from the famous Russian fable THE MASTER AND MARGARITA by Mikhail Bulgakov that chronicles the confrontation between Jesus, Pontius Pilate and the devil. John Hurt has been cast as Pontius. ADRIFT, again with John Hurt signed, is a parable of a homeless man trapped in a department store. Is he in heaven or hell? And AREA 51 is an acid-based sci-fi action love story that looks at the notorious military base in Nevada that secretly tracks UFO's. The script details the collusion between the government and the extra-terrestrials... And the devil is in the details.

Over the past two years David has been instrumental in advancing 5.1 Surround mixing and continuing to develop new experiences for the listener. In a show business that relentlessly markets machismo, David Tickle makes room for heart and wit and spirituality.

It's the audience's fortune that Tickle has made that place a room for all the world to share.