One of the 20th century’s most innovative record producers, John Culshaw, was born 100 years ago this May into a modest family in coastal Merseyside.
Like several historically important record producers, he was not a trained musician. He was, however, a shining example of what composer Aaron Copland called ‘the gifted listener’ – the person who marries ‘the preparation of the trained professional with the innocence of the intuitive amateur’, without whom the work of composers and performers
