There was unceasing criticism, either bellowed down the telephone or arriving from a curiously antique recording machine.

One day he staggered in to the house after work, carrying what looked like an enormous green trunk: it was an early reel-to-reel recording machine.

Instead of sending his report to a recording machine as ordered, they put it on the shortwave transmitter.

He later bought himself a four track recording machine and started songwriting and singing.

It was recorded on entirely analogue equipment in real time, with each track recorded on a one-track-per-day basis with no overdubs or edits on a 2 track recording machine.