NAYLAND ARTS SOCIETY PRESENTS : NOTED RECORD PRODUCER JON ASTLEY IN CONVERSATION
Worked with everyone from Sir Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Led Zeppelin, Who etc
Presented by: BiGiAM| 0 | COLCHESTER: THE ANGEL (info) |
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| P | Monday 15th September, 2025 |
| N | Door time: 6:45pm Start time: 7:00pm |
| . | All ages (under 18s must be accompanied by an adult) |
| C | Other |
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Jon Astley is a British record producer and mastering engineer. He is best known for his co-production work with Glyn Johns on the Who's eighth studio album Who Are You (1978), and later remastering supervision for all of the group's back catalogue reissues.
He also has produced albums for Eric Clapton, Barclay James Harvest, Corey Hart, and Deborah Harry and has mastered records for the Who, ABBA, George Harrison, Tori Amos, Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones, the Pretty Things, Jools Holland, Tom Jones, Judas Priest, Cloven Hoof, Emmylou Harris, Ella Guru, Damien Dempsey, Tears for Fears, Led Zeppelin, Hothouse Flowers, Level 42, the Boomtown Rats, John Mayall, Jo Harman, Marilyn Martin, Toto, Norah Jones, Stereophonics, KT Tunstall, Van Morrison, Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Slade, Sting, and Bono.
Astley also recorded and released two studio albums as a singer-songwriter in the late 1980s. His most commercially successful song was "Jane's Getting Serious", later popularized by a Heinz ketchup television commercial starring a pre-Friends Matt LeBlanc.
Astley is the son of composer Edwin "Ted" Astley, famed for 'Dangerman' and 'Randall and Hopkins (deceased) themes, alongside many dozens of other TV and Film themes and incidental music . His sister Virginia Astley is a recording artist, and his other sister Karen was formerly married to Who guitarist Pete Townshend. He is married to novelist Judy Astley.
