Legendary producer Martin Rushent who brought us ao The Human League's breakthrough album Dare died yesterday at his home at 63.
The news was announced on facebook by Martin's son Tim.
Having worked with names as diverse as Shirley Bassey, Yes, T-Rex or Fleetwood Mac from the early seventies on, he put his teeth in punk from the early beginning. Bringing bands like Stranglers, 999, XTC, Generation X or Buzzcocks to stardom.
In the early 80's he started his own Genetic label signing Ultravox, Visage and Spandau Ballet, the plans were bombed by their respective parent labels. At the same time he invested the massive amount of £250.000 into a state of the art studio, which produced the first single for the label and solo debut for Buzzcocks singer Pete Shelley: Homosapien.
But the breakthrough came with the Human League's 1981 Dare album, putting his name deffinitely on the map and making his CV a roster of 80's powerpop/wave names.
His latest work included the Pipettes second album