‘I thought – if I die, I’ve had a good innings’: producer James Ford on life, death and making an album from his hospital bed

James Ellis Ford talks about being diagnosed with leukaemia and how making music helped him through one of the hardest periods of his life He has been described as the music industry’s secret weapon; a producer loved by artists such as Arctic Monkeys, Pulp and Jessie Ware. In…

The Arctic Monkeys, Pet Shop Boys and Pulp collaborator was at the height of his powers as Britain’s most in-demand music producer when leukaemia struck. ‘I realised life is exceptionally fragile,’ he says There was a moment outside the door of a recording studio in rural…