Eric Holland is an English songwriter and producer who, during the late 1960s and early 70s, was a top recording engineer in London at Recorded Sound Studios and Nova Sound Studios. Sometimes billed by his full name, Eric David Holland, he was the technician in charge on hit singles by Sweet, Lulu, Butterscotch and worked on albums by The Bee Gees, Savoy Brown, Galliard, The Poppy Family, The John Dummer Band, Atomic Rooster, , Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb and Justin Hayward. From the mid-1970s through the 1980s, Eric Holland worked variously in A&R at RSO Records, record and song promotions within the Chappell Group, singer songwriter at Jet Music for rock manager Don Arden. He wrote and performed an ident for BBC Radio 1's Mike Read Breakfast Show, and had a turntable hit with the single "Your Love Is Slippin' Away" (Chiswick Records, released in 1983) which he produced and wrote for west London act The Flames. His promotion and music publishing activities have encompassed diverse acts from Bruce Springsteen to Millie Jackson, James Brown, The Osmonds, The Hollies and Electric Light Orchestra.
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