Clive Langer


Clive Langer is an English record producer and songwriter, active from the mid-1970s onwards.
He usually works with Alan Winstanley. He composed the music for the films Still Crazy and Brothers of the Head.

Biography

Langer was born in 1954, to a Jewish Polish father who had fled Poland to escape the Nazis, before later settling in England and enlisting in the Royal Air Force. Having grown up in London, Langer studied at art school in Canterbury and at the Liverpool College of Art.
Prior to his record producing career he was a guitarist with the British cult band Deaf School.
Langer sometimes performed under the alias of 'Cliff Hanger', and his production work was sometimes attributed to 'Clanger'. After Deaf School, in mid 1977, Langer joined Big in Japan which he suggested to his friend Bill Drummond to form, but Langer quit shortly afterwards and began a new band, Clive Langer and the Boxes. Their releases were I Want the Whole World, a 12" EP released in 1979 on Radar Records. and Splash!, an album released in 1980 on F-Beat Records.
Langer co-wrote the song "Shipbuilding" with Elvis Costello, and played organ on the version by Robert Wyatt which was a Top 40 hit in the UK.
As of 2025, he lives in Hackney, London and is tee-total.

Albums produced by Langer and Winstanley

One Step Beyond... – Madness Absolutely – Madness Kilimanjaro – The Teardrop Explodes 7 – Madness Rhythm Breaks The Ice – Bette Bright and the Illuminations Wilder – The Teardrop Explodes Too-Rye-Ay – Dexys Midnight Runners The Rise & Fall – Madness Punch the Clock – Elvis Costello and the Attractions Keep Moving – Madness Goodbye Cruel World – Elvis Costello and the Attractions Despite Straight Lines – Marilyn Easy Pieces – Lloyd Cole and the Commotions Mad Not Mad – Madness What Price Paradise – China Crisis People – Hothouse Flowers Flood – They Might Be Giants Bona Drag – Morrissey Home – Hothouse Flowers Kill Uncle – Morrissey The Rockingbirds – The Rockingbirds Sixteen Stone – Bush Frestonia – Aztec Camera Local – Ho-Hum Wonderful – Madness The Science of Things – Bush Paper Scissors Stone – Catatonia Mink Car – They Might Be Giants Jealous God – Nathan Larson Lifelines – a-ha The First Drop – Fireapple Red Oh No! – Crackout Please Describe Yourself – Dogs Die in Hot Cars So This Is Great Britain? – The Holloways The Liberty of Norton Folgate – Madness

Albums produced by Langer

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