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Angus Boyd "Gus" Dudgeon spent his extraordinary career less-heralded than Rundgren, as he wasn't an artist himself, but this "producer's producer" was in the top echelon of his craft. Just look at the boldfaced names on the cover of Ace's release: Elton John, David Bowie, and John Lennon among them. John Kaufman, co-compiler with Ady Croasdell and Executive Producer of Gus Dudgeon: Production Gems, explains the collection's genesis in its lavish 40-page booklet. It was originally scheduled for release twenty years ago, in 2002, to mark the producer's sixtieth birthday. But when an automobile crash tragically claimed the lives of Gus and his wife Sheila, just months before that landmark birthday, Production Gems was put on hold...but not before Dudgeon had submitted a list of productions he wished would be included. Ace's release, a percentage of which benefits The Gus Dudgeon Foundation for Recording Arts, brings his career anthology to fruition in belated but still potent fashion.