The following waffle is not particularly articulate nor edited to death, prob grammatically incorrect, to be honest I don't care. It's my own words with bad English which I failed at school, too busy playing my Gibson on the porch with a Roland amp blasting the neighbours on a Sunday.
I've been fortunate enough to create music since the age of 15, yeah I've heard others say since they were 3 or 5, I find that a bit ridiculous, perhaps when they were in the womb they should mention that they kicked their Mum's tum and it actually started then with a drum beat. Give it a rest. At 15 I was mediocre at playing the guitar, I was in a band called Oblong, most of them stoned all the time but the guitarist was great, well I thought so at the time. I wrote a few songs, brought them to the rehearsal, I was later kicked out of the band for being too organised for writing the lyrics, chord sheets and handing it out to everyone. I think the bass player now works in Sainsbury's.
I was in another band at the same time, the lead vocalist's Dad used to be famous and had a string of hits including a number one in the UK charts. I didnt' care that much, yawn, I've done lots of name dropping on my about page but that's what your expected to do, I'll address that later in this waffle. I was interested in the gear in the garden shed, a Roland Echo machine, loved that thing. While everyone in the band went inside the house after the band rehearsal, I would stay in the shed and continue to play my guitar, bash on the drums, and sing using the Echo machine, that's bliss and thats music, getting so lost in it that everyone else stuffed their faces while I starved to death, well bit of an exaggeration, but that's the music industry for you, it's full of endless exaggerations. "I worked with Adele", says one producer, later you find out he was the tea boy, and his tea tasted bloody awful.
You can drop as many names as you want and get work and earn some cash, run away as far as you can from an artist and look at your bank account. Soulless really, but hey at least you've got your money. Any true record producer, loves music so much and believes in an artist they work with, that they'll go more than an extra mile, sacrificing things that possibly one day they might regret. If an artist reciprocates that sacrifice then the music created is beyond any words and communicates a profound emotional universal language, thats real music.