DBpedia – Linked Data Fragments

Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mark_Opitz> ?p ?o }

• Mark_Opitz abstract "Mark Opitz is an Australian record producer and audio engineer who was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1952 and moved to Brisbane in 1959 spending his teenage years there. He is a childhood friend of Kym Gyngell.Opitz started his career with ABC TV in Sydney in the 1970s and has since gone on to work with many of the great Australian musicians that have graced both the Australian and international music charts for the past 25 years.When Australia's pre-eminent production team, Vanda and Young, offered Opitz, fresh from his job as at EMI Music (Capitol & Local Artists Label Manager), a position as their apprentice producer he accepted immediately and started working with their artists that included AC/DC, Rose Tattoo and John Paul Young and Flash In The Pan. Opitz learned the skills necessary to be a top music producer through this on the job training.It was during this period Opitz was given the job of producing Alberts artists The Angels producing theirFace To Face & No Exit albums. Opitz stumbled upon gold by creating The Angels signature, thick guitar sound that ruled Australia's '80s/90s airwaves.Around this time Warner Music offered Opitz the position as Head of A&R while he was producing the East album for Cold Chisel. He accepted and went on to sign Billy Field, The Divinyls and many others. He also produced further albums for Cold Chisel ( Circus Animals and Swingshift), Richard Clapton (Great Escape), Swanee and the Hitmen.After leaving corporate A&R Opitz entered into a partnership in the legendary Rhinoceros Studios in Sydney, set up his own production company and went on to produce albums for Jimmy Barnes, INXS' first classic album, Shabooh Shoobah, Models \"Out Of Mind Out Of Sight\", Hoodoo Gurus \"What's My Scene\", Australian Crawl's \"Reckless\", Noiseworks and The Reels as well as many others.The 1980s saw Opitz win the industry voted Australia's Best Producer Award 7 times. (2x Aria's and 5 ABC TV Countdown).In the '90s, Opitz was based primarily overseas working with International artists. During that time he also produced several more INXS albums, including Welcome to Wherever You Are and Full Moon, Dirty Hearts. He also produced \"Live Baby Live\" for the band while accompanying them on their yearlong international tour while acting as their music production advisor. This climaxed with the legendary Wembley Stadium show that was released in DVD format in 2003.Marks career also has a solid international profile; he is included in Billboards All Time Top \"Producer Encyclopaedia\", which covers all genres of music. He has more recently worked with likes of Bob Dylan on his Academy Award ceremony performance of \"Things Have Changed\" from the movie The Wonder Boys as well as the more recent US double platinum award winning KISS / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra TV/ DVD/CD Kiss Symphony/Alive 4. Other international artists Opitz has worked with during his career include Lenny Kravitz, Ray Charles, The Beach Boys and many other European and Asian artists.In the late 90's Michael Gudinski (Mushroom) invited Opitz to join his executive team and to help oversee his Australian music recording projects in readiness for the sale to News Limited. This period saw Mark working in all facets of the business culminating in the production of the highly successful \"Mushroom 25th Anniversary\" series of concerts, albums and TV/DVD specials etc.Mark's company \"The Best Seat In The House\" produced the INXS DVD/TV special \"I'm Only Looking\" for international release through Warner Music in the USA and Universal Music for the rest of the world. This project included many interviews, mini- documentaries as well as all the music videos and lives performance footage. As well as the Kiss & The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra project \"Alive 4\" Opitz also produced the music for the Kiss high definition US TV special/DVD release \"Rock The Nation\" in 06 and Paul Stanley's solo project in 07. Since then he has produced albums for Rose Tattoo, Jeff Lang, and Monique Brumby among other projects.Currently Mark is a full voting member in all categories of both The Aria Awards in Australia and The Grammy Awards in the USA.Career Timeline•\tABC-TV, Studio Trainee 1971-1973•\tEMI Australia, Capitol Records & Local Artists Label Manager, Producer 1974-77•\tAlbert Productions, Producer 1977-1980•\tWarner Music, Head of A&R 1980-1982•\tPacific Deluxe Productions, CEO & Producer 1982-1997•\tMushroom Group, Head of A&R 1997-2001•\tConsultant SMA (Solomans & Don Hagens re: SMASH Music business model (2001-2002)•\tThe Best Seat In The House, CEO 2002-2008•\tOne Music.Asia, Director 2008-".
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageExternalLink red-house-mw0000308451.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageExternalLink markopitz.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageID "17827133".
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageLength "8239".
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageOutDegree "68".
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageRevisionID "697250564".
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink DC.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink AllMusic.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Australian_Crawl.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Australian_Rock_Database.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Barking_Spiders_Live:_1983.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Billy_Field.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Blow_Your_Cool!.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Brisbane.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Category:ARIA_Award_winners.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Category:Australian_audio_engineers.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Category:Australian_record_producers.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Category:INXS.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Category:Living_people.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Category:People_from_Melbourne.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Circus_Animals.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Cold_Chisel.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Desperate_(Divinyls_album).
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Divinyls.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Face_to_Face_(The_Angels_album).
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Full_Moon,_Dirty_Hearts.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Hoodoo_Gurus.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink INXS.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Jeff_Lang.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Jimmy_Barnes.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink John_Paul_Young.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Kiss_(band).
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Kiss_Symphony:_Alive_IV.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Kym_Gyngell.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Melbourne.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Myspace.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink No_Exit_(The_Angels_album).
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Powerage.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Red_House.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Richard_Clapton.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Rose_Tattoo.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Semantics_(album).
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Shabooh_Shoobah.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Steelheart.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Steelheart_(album).
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Sunset_Riot.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Swanee_(singer).
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Swingshift.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink The_Angels_(Australian_band).
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink The_Ocean_Blue.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink The_Ocean_Blue_(album).
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink The_Reels.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Twentieth_Century_(Cold_Chisel_album).
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink Welcome_to_Wherever_You_Are.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLink What_a_Life!_(album).
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageWikiLinkText "Mark Opitz".
• Mark_Opitz name "Opitz, Mark".
• Mark_Opitz shortDescription "Australian record producer".
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Cleanup.
• Mark_Opitz wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Persondata.
• Mark_Opitz description "Australian record producer".
• Mark_Opitz description "Australian record producer".
• Mark_Opitz subject Category:ARIA_Award_winners.
• Mark_Opitz subject Category:Australian_audio_engineers.
• Mark_Opitz subject Category:Australian_record_producers.
• Mark_Opitz subject Category:INXS.
• Mark_Opitz subject Category:Living_people.
• Mark_Opitz subject Category:People_from_Melbourne.
• Mark_Opitz hypernym Producer.
• Mark_Opitz type Agent.
• Mark_Opitz type Award.
• Mark_Opitz type List.
• Mark_Opitz type MusicalArtist.
• Mark_Opitz type Person.
• Mark_Opitz type Producer.
• Mark_Opitz type Person.
• Mark_Opitz type Award.
• Mark_Opitz type List.
• Mark_Opitz type Page.
• Mark_Opitz type Producer.
• Mark_Opitz type Winner.
• Mark_Opitz type Agent.
• Mark_Opitz type NaturalPerson.
• Mark_Opitz type Thing.
• Mark_Opitz type Q215627.
• Mark_Opitz type Q5.
• Mark_Opitz type Person.
• Mark_Opitz comment "Mark Opitz is an Australian record producer and audio engineer who was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1952 and moved to Brisbane in 1959 spending his teenage years there.".
• Mark_Opitz label "Mark Opitz".
• Mark_Opitz sameAs Q6769115.
• Mark_Opitz sameAs m.047crd1.
• Mark_Opitz sameAs Q6769115.
• Mark_Opitz wasDerivedFrom Mark_Opitz?oldid=697250564.
• Mark_Opitz givenName "Mark".
• Mark_Opitz isPrimaryTopicOf Mark_Opitz.
• Mark_Opitz name "Mark Opitz".
• Mark_Opitz name "Opitz, Mark".
• Mark_Opitz surname "Opitz".