Geoff Barrow: soundtrack of my life

The Portishead producer on the Laughing Policeman, body-popping to Afrika Bambaataa and his belated discovery of CanGeoff Barrow had a hand in two of the defining records of the 90s: first as teaboy and tape operator in the studio where Massive Attack made Blue Lines, then with his own band Portishead, whose 1994 debut, Dummy, won the Mercury prize. Eleven years after their eponymous second album, Portishead returned from hiatus in 2008 with Third. The band, who have been working on a fourth al...

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