Backing team working for recording pioneer (6)
I believe the answer is:
edison
'recording pioneer' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'backing team working' is the wordplay.
'backing' is a reversal indicator.
'team' becomes 'side' (both can mean a sports team).
'working' becomes 'on' (e.g. a machine is working or on).
'side' backwards is 'edis'.
'edis'+'on'='EDISON'
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for edison that I've seen before include "He came up with microphone" , "Incandescent light inventor" , "US inventor of phonograph, electric light etc." , "Prolific inventor" , "Inventor's" .)