Born in 1949 in Durham City in the North East of England, Trevor Horn drew his immediate musical inspiration from his father. Began his professional career as a backing musician. As a school leaver Horn moved to Leicester and earned a living as a bass player for club bands and spent every spare moment messing around with primitive recording technology.

Microphones, headphones, all manner of tapes decks - any sort of hardware he could lay his hands on would all come under his wing. he made a new sound with machines that has spawned entire genres of what is now known as electronic music. his use of samplers was cutting edge and still holds up today. By the time Malcolm McLaren arrived, I'd got a Fairlight. I'd already seen one — Geoffrey [Downes, Horn's partner in the Buggles] had a Fairlight but he'd gone off to form Asia. So when he went I bought a Fairlight. That, actually, I must admit, freaked my wife out because it was £18,000 and that was a fortune back then! There was only four of them in the country and I had one of them.

"Sarm Studios" 

The first program that I really got into was Studio Vision, and on the first Seal album, 'Future Love Paradise' was originally recorded with two tracks of MIDI, one track of audio straight into Studio Vision — the drums were MIDI drums, and a keyboard and Seal's vocals. That's how we started and we built it all on top of that. And that would have been '90/91, one of the first ones that I did.