All-round producer and MIDI guitar programmer, Doc McKinney, explains how he and The Weeknd pulled together 18 songs from 40 collaborators and fashioned Starboy. Not one song on The Weeknd's [aka Abel Tesfaye] 18-song third album, Starboy, is credited to less than five writers. There were 40 credited on the album in total including Daft Punk, Diplo, Max Martin, and Benny Blanco. To help hold it all together, the 45-year old Martin 'Doc' McKinney worked alongside Abel as co-executive producer. Doc McKinney's relationship with Tesfaye started right at the beginning, in 2011. McKinney co-wrote and co-produced, with Carlo Montagnese (aka Illangelo), five of the nine songs on The Weeknd's debut mix tape, House of Balloons. The two also co-produced all songs on The Weeknd's follow-up, Thursday, also released in 2011, but hadn't worked with The Weeknd since.
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