Bob Auger

British recording engineer Robert Walter Ernest Auger was born in London on 30 April 1928. He began his career aged twenty-eight, taking an apprenticeship at Bryanston Street Studios, working as an engineer for Pye and then meeting and working with American recording engineer Bob Fine at Mercury Records.

During a long career, Bob Auger embraced various technical deveopments in their early stages, including stereo and digital recording, and made several thousand recordings. He died unexpectedly in his sleep in Swansea on 12 December 1998, aged seventy.