Real name: John Owen Williams

b. 1951

English A&R executive, record producer, photographer, manager, recording artist, and songwriter, who started his career in 1974 at Polydor doing radio promotion. He also worked at Island Records as a product manager and as an editor at the Radio & Record News. After some production work, he became an A&R and a producer at Chrysalis in 1986. In 1995 he joined Sanctuary Records.

Williams has worked with The Housemartins, Simple Minds, Blancmange, and The High among many others.