Massive Attack producer dies

MASSIVE ATTACK producer Jonny Dollar has died from cancer aged 45.

Dollar produced the Bristol band's 1991 album 'Blue Lines', which featured Unfinished Sympathy, one of their biggest chart hits.

Dollar, who was considered integral to the rise of the "Bristol sound" of the Nineties, also worked with Neneh Cherry and produced Gabrielle's three-times platinum 1999 album Rise.

He passed away last Friday at the Royal Marsden hospital in London, having been diagnosed with the disease last August,

Dollar, who is survived by his wife Harriet and four children, will be buried in a private funeral in Cornwall, followed by memorial service which will be held in London.which will be followed by a memorial service in London.


Speaking to Music Week, Ferdy Unger-Hamilton, president of Gabrielle's label, Polydor, paid tribute and said: "When I first heard Unfinished Sympathy like everybody else who heard it, I don't think I could really believe what I was hearing.

"As a fan of these records it was a natural thing for me to call him up when we were looking for a producer for Gabrielle's third album, Rise.

"As committed and driven a producer as I've ever met, I literally had to take the tracks by force back off him, he was so determined to make them perfect. The result was a Number One single and album. He was as tough artistically as he was gentle a person."