Decca

Born in the Hampstead area of London on Nov. 10, 1946, Baker got his start in music as a second engineer at London’s vaunted Decca Studios and Trident Studios, where he assisted the producers Gus Dudgeon and Tony Visconti and worked on records by the likes of David Bowie, the Who and the Rolling Stones.

Last year, Decca Records launched a search for the surviving members, with a notice in London's Ham & High newspaper.

Decca Records recently reissued its recording of War Requiem, having preserved the fragile 1963 master tapes by baking them and digitising their contents.

His earliest efforts saw a redesign of the band's logo, replacing a swirling union jack motif used on their demo cassette with a simple black-and-white box inspired by the Decca Records label from the 1960s.

His first album on the Decca label, playing those same 24 devilishly difficult pieces — 12 each in Op.