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Colin Watson
Colin Watson is credited on 132 releases across 49 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1974–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
132
Pressings credited
49
Albums
6
Decades active
1
In collections
Biography
John Colin Watson (1 February 1920 – 18 January 1983) was a British writer of detective fiction and the creator of characters such as Inspector Purbright and Lucilla Teatime. Born in Croydon, Surrey, he is best remembered for the twelve Flaxborough novels, typified by their comic and dry wit and set in a fictional small town in England which is closely based on Boston, Lincolnshire. He worked as a journalist in Lincolnshire and the characters in his books are said to be highly recognisable caricatures of people he encountered in his work. His 1971 study of interwar thrillers, Snobbery With Violence, made the phrase popular for describing such authors as Dornford Yates. He was inducted into the Detection Club in 1970. Watson was the first person to successfully sue Private Eye for libel, for an article in issue 25 when he objected to being described as: “the little-known author who . . . was writing a novel, very Wodehouse but without the jokes”. He was awarded £750. He died in Folkingham, Lincolnshire in 1983.
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Credited work
132 releases · 49 albums · active 1974–2023
- Performance · 267
- Production · 17
- Other credits · 12
- Engineering · 10
Studios: EMI Studios 301 · Electric Avenue Studios · The Vault · Festival Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Slim Dusty
- Various
- The Wiggles
- Lee Kernaghan
- Anne Kirkpatrick
- Colin Buchanan
- John Williamson
- The Wheel (5)
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