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John Williams

real name John Owen Williams

John Williams is credited on 942 releases across 174 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1975–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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942

Credits

174

Albums

6

Decades active

177

In collections

Biography

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B. 1951
English A&R executive, record producer, photographer, manager, recording artist, and songwriter, who started his career in 1974 at Polydor doing radio promotion. He also worked at Island Records as a product manager and as an editor at the Radio & Record News. After some production work, he became an A&R and a producer at Chrysalis in 1986. In 1995 he joined Sanctuary Records.
Williams has worked with The Housemartins, Simple Minds, Blancmange, and The High among many others.

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Credited work

942 releases · 174 albums · active 1975–2025

  • Production · 1,150
  • Performance · 186
  • Engineering · 83
  • Other credits · 27
  • Mastering · 2

Studios: Air Studios · Strongroom · Yellow 2 Studios · Maida Vale Studios

Discography

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