It's generally the musicians who get knighted,” says Sir Robin Millar, celebrated producer and co-founder of Blue Raincoat Music. He pauses to consider the fact that, in December, 2022, he found out he was to be awarded a knighthood, following in the footsteps of Universal Music Group chairman & CEO Sir Lucian Grainge. “I'm really chuffed,” he adds. “But it's not something I've ever consciously worked towards.”
Millar's work presents quite the story. In the 1970s, he signed as an artist with Atlantic, even though he “didn't like being in the limelight”. In the end, the label shelved plans to release Cat's Eyes, the album he had been working on with The Rolling Stones’ Mick Taylor, after Taylor quit the band.
Subsequently, as a producer, Millar discovered Sade, recording the…
