Engineering · Production
Rafe Mckenna
real name Rafe Mc Kenna
Rafe Mckenna is credited on 783 releases across 209 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1975–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
783
Credits
209
Albums
6
Decades active
134
In collections
Biography
Engineer/Mixer/Producer
Rafe started his career in the music business in the summer of 1975 when he joined De Lane Lea / C.T.S studios at the age of 17 years old as a trainee tape operator and Assistant. In 1977 he started engineering bands who came in to do demos and by 1978 was a fully fledged engineer. In 1980 Rafe moved to Marcus recording studios as one of the chief engineers until 1982 when he became freelance.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
783 releases · 209 albums · active 1975–2025
- Engineering · 796
- Production · 169
- Performance · 42
- Other credits · 10
- Mastering · 9
Studios: The Town House · Windmill Lane Studios · The Music Centre, Wembley · Farmyard Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Signing Off
1980

Intergalactic Sonic 7"s
2003

Nu-Clear Sounds
1998

Please Don't Touch!
1978

Holy Water
1990

Two Shoes
2005

Popped In Souled Out
1987

Red Red Wine
1983

From The Tea-Rooms Of Mars .... To The Hell-Holes Of Uranus
1981

New York, London, Paris, Munich
1979

Bust A Nut
1994

Dangerous Age
1988

UB44
1982

End Of Part One (Their Greatest Hits)
1993

Unusual Heat
1991

Last Of The Runaways
1989

She Was Only A Grocer's Daughter
1987

Bedrock Vice
1987

Highly Strung
1983

Rituals
1981

No Smoke Without Fire
1978
Best Of The Corrs
2001

Driving To Damascus
1999

A Life Less Ordinary
1997
Frequent collaborators
- UB40
- Paul Johnson (2)
- Various
- Wet Wet Wet
- Tanita Tikaram
- Big Country
- Judy Cheeks
- Paradise (2)
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