Kevin Beamish is an American record producer

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

, sound engineer and mixer.

He was the producer and engineer of REO Speedwagon

REO Speedwagon

REO Speedwagon is an American rock band. Formed in 1967, the band grew in popularity during the 1970s and peaked in the early 1980s. Hi Infidelity is the group's most commercially successful album, selling over ten million copies and charting four Top 40 hits in the US...

 #1 album Hi Infidelity

Hi Infidelity

Hi Infidelity is the ninth studio album by REO Speedwagon, released in 1980 . It went on to become the biggest selling rock LP of 1981, eventually selling over ten million copies. Six songs from this album hit Billboard charts, including "Keep on Loving You" which was the band's first Number 1 hit,...

and of the hit single "Keep on Loving You", with 15 million albums and 4 million singles sold worldwide.

In the eighties, Kevin Beamish produced notable albums such as Jefferson Starship

Jefferson Starship

Jefferson Starship is an American rock band formed in the early 1970s. The group is a spin-off from the iconic 1960s psychedelic/folk group Jefferson Airplane. The band has undergone several major changes in personnel and genres through the years while retaining the same Jefferson Starship name...

's Winds of Change

Winds of Change (Jefferson Starship album)

Winds of Change is a 1982 album by Jefferson Starship. It was the first studio album produced after Grace Slick rejoined the band as a full member. Aynsley Dunbar plays drums on the album, but was replaced by Donny Baldwin for the supporting tour...

(1982), Saxon

Saxon (band)

Saxon are an English heavy metal band, formed in 1976 in Barnsley, Yorkshire. As front-runners of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, they had 8 UK Top 40 albums in the 1980s including 4 UK Top 10 albums. Saxon also had numerous singles in the Top 20 singles chart...

’s Crusader

Crusader (Saxon album)

Crusader is the sixth studio album by heavy metal band Saxon released in 1984 . The album sold over 2 million copies.-Track listing:-Personnel:*Biff Byford - Vocals*Graham Oliver - Guitar*Paul Quinn - Guitar*Steve Dawson - Bass...

(1984) and Y&T

Y&T

Y&T is an American hard rock/heavy metal band formed in 1974. They hail from Oakland, California...

's Contagious (1987).
He started producing heavier rock like Keel

Keel

In boats and ships, keel can refer to either of two parts: a structural element, or a hydrodynamic element. These parts overlap. As the laying down of the keel is the initial step in construction of a ship, in British and American shipbuilding traditions the construction is dated from this event...

, Leatherwolf

Leatherwolf

Leatherwolf is an American heavy metal band that formed in Huntington Beach, California in 1981. The group is also nicknamed the 'Triple Axe Attack' for pioneering the use of a 3-guitar line-up in heavy metal...

, D'Molls

D'Molls

D'Molls, originally known as The Chicago Molls, were a band featuring lead vocalist/guitarist Desi Rexx, guitarist S.S. Priest, bassist Lizzy Valentine, and drummer Billy Dior....

, and into the nineties with Contraband

Contraband (band)

Contraband was a short-lived supergroup/side project that included members of several famous rock bands from the 1980s, such as The Michael Schenker Group, Ratt, Vixen, Shark Island and L.A. Guns....

 and Michael Schenker Group

Michael Schenker Group

The Michael Schenker Group is a guitar-oriented hard rock band formed in 1979 by former Scorpions and UFO guitarist, Michael Schenker. In 1986, Schenker and vocalist Robin McAuley formed the McAuley Schenker Group, which lasted until 1992. After that, the Michael Schenker Group was reformed.The...

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External links

• Official Website