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Hugh Padgham

British sound engineer and music producer (born 1955)

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Born 1955 · age 71United Kingdom

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71
Born 1955
Known for
XTC: This Is Pop
2017

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Updated 2026-06-25

Hugh Charles Padgham is an English record producer and audio engineer. He has won four Grammy Awards, for Producer of the Year and Album of the Year for 1985, Record of the Year for 1990, and Engineer of the Year for 1993. Padgham's co-productions include hits by Phil Collins, XTC, Genesis, the Human League, Sting, and the Police. He pioneered the "gated reverb" drum sound used most famously on Collins' 1981 song "In the Air Tonight".