Performance · Production
Colin Newman
real name Colin John Newman
Colin Newman is credited on 785 releases across 291 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1977–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
785
Credits
291
Albums
6
Decades active
410
In collections
Biography
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English musician, record producer and record label owner, born 16 September 1954, in Salisbury, Wiltshire. Co-founder.
For the manager / producer associated with Trojan Records please use
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
785 releases · 291 albums · active 1977–2026
- Performance · 1,706
- Production · 167
- Other credits · 124
- Engineering · 8
Studios: Blackwing Studios · Daylight Studio · Advision Studios · Preußen Tonstudio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Document
1987

Pink Flag
1977

Chairs Missing
1978

Dehumanizer
1992

154
1979

Ordinary Man
2020

It'll End In Tears
1984

A Bell Is A Cup... Until It Is Struck
1988

Penthouse
1995

Filigree & Shadow
1986

The Ideal Copy
1987

Troublegum
1994

Nowhere
1994

It's Beginning To And Back Again
1989

Ro Sham Bo
1994

!!Destroy-Oh-Boy!!
1992

Heartbeat
1987

See You On The Other Side
2019

Wire
2015

Boss Hog
1995

Distance
1994

I Could Live In Hope
1994

Pigpile
1992

Change Becomes Us
2013
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Wire
- Virgin Prunes
- Wir
- Bashung
- Malka Spigel
- Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine
- Minimal Compact
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