Colin Thurston

Colin Thurston (b. 1947 – 15 January 2007) was an English recording engineer and record producer, known for his work with David Bowie, Duran Duran and the Human League.

Early life Born in Singapore in 1947, Thurston was a guitarist in several bands and his first work in music was as a jingle writer. His first project was a commercial for Scotch-Brite.

Thurston's debut as a solo producer was Magazine's second album Secondhand Daylight (1979). That same year, he produced the Human League's first album, Reproduction and their single "I Don't Depend on You" released under the name of The Men.

Thurston produced tracks on Bow Wow Wow's albums See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy! (1981) and I Want Candy (1982), as well as Talk Talk's debut album, The Party's Over (1982). He co-produced Kajagoogoo's debut album White Feathers (1983) with Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran.

Thurston produced Howard Jones's debut single "New Song" (1983), which ranked 28th on the top 40 singles released in the UK that year.

He also became an in-house producer for the Canadian independent record label, Brouhaha, in the late 1980s, working with Canadian acts such as Alta Moda, Neo A4 and the first English-language album for French-Canadian recording artist Daniel Lavoie.

Thurston was an executive committee member of the British Record Producers Guild (BRPG) (re-named Re-Pro in 1993), a sub-committee of the Association of Professional Recording Services that ran from 1978–1998. Re-Pro's executive members also included such producers as Trevor Horn, Hugh Padgham, Alan Parsons, and Robin Millar.