His production credits include Magazine's Real Life (1978); XTC's White Music (1978); Dukes of Stratosphear's 25 O'Clock and the Fall's This Nation's Saving Grace (both 1985); the Stone Roses' The Stone Roses (1989); the Verve's A Storm in Heaven (1993); Radiohead's The Bends (1995); Cast's All Change (1995); Muse's Origin of Symmetry (2001); and the Levellers' We the Collective (2018).

[4] Leckie began work at Abbey Road Studios on 15 February 1970 as a tape operator, later graduating to balance engineer and record producer.

Other engineering sessions at Abbey Road at this time were with Roy Harper, Soft Machine, Sammy Hagar, Jack Rieley's Western Justice album and the last recordings with Syd Barrett.

[9] His first jobs as producer, in 1976, were Be-Bop Deluxe's third album, Sunburst Finish, and Doctors of Madness' Figments of Emancipation.

Leckie's work with XTC included producing their debut 3D single and EP, and first two studio albums, White Music and Go 2.

[20] In 1995, Leckie produced All Change by the Liverpool band Cast, which became Polydor Records' highest-selling debut album.

[21] Leckie produced and engineered Radiohead's second album, The Bends (1995), which drew significant critical attention.