Roger Savage worked at
Olympic Studios in London, where he had recorded
demos with
Mick Jagger and
Dusty Springfield. After marrying an Australian woman,), "I Belong With You", by Bobby Bright and Laurie Allen, which topped the Melbourne music charts for two weeks. Bill Armstrong said that Savage helped to train many engineers and producers at his studios, including engineers Allan Pay, Ernie Rose, John Sayers and Graeme Owens, and producers
Molly Meldrum,
Howard Gable,
Robie Porter and
Ron Tudor. He also started working on films in the 1970s. One of his earliest film credits was as an audio engineer on
Getting Back to Nothing,
Tim Burstall's documentary of the 1970
World Surfing Championships staged at
Bells Beach, Victoria. After Armstrong's transitioned into Armstrong Audio Visual (AAV), which was bought by
The Age newspaper group, Savage stayed at AAV for some time, but wanted to establish his own studio focused solely on music. With this in mind, he and a business partner bought a vacant block of land in Bank Street, but owing to poor economic circumstances in the 1980s a new studio did not materialise. Savage left AAV in the early 1980s to do freelance work in
film production, and was hired to work on
Return of the Jedi, released in 1983. ==Recognition and awards==