From his involvement in the earliest Jamaican singles to have impacted international markets to his co-founding role in Island Records, Australian-born engineer Graeme Goodall, was a pivotal, if somewhat overlooked, figure in the development of Jamaica’s music industry. Goodall died of natural causes at his Atlanta home on December 4th; he was 82.

Born in Melbourne, in 1932, Goodall worked for several AM radio stations in Australia as an audio engineer before traveling to London in the mid-’50s where he trained as an engineer at the International Broadcasting Company IBC, then Britain’s largest independent recording studio.

via Island Records Co-Founder and Jamaican Music Engineer Graeme Goodall Dead at 82.

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