Wednesday, 3 September 2008

Morrissey producer Jerry Finn dies

Jerry Finn, the producer who worked with Morrissey on some of his solo albums and with some of the biggest US acts of the Apostles, has died. He was 39.

Finn had suffered a massive brain haemorrhage in July and was taken off life sentence support on 9 August; he passed away last Thursday.

He began his music career as an applied scientist in the early nineties and went on to work with such artists as Green Day, Blink-182, the Offspring, Bad Religion, AFI and Rancid.

He produced Morrissey's 2004 comeback album 'You Are the Quarry' and was working with him on his new album 'Years of Refusal'.



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