| abstract | - Born in Zambia, Robert John "Mutt" Lange entered the music industry in The Seventies as a sometime session musician and budding producer, and eventually made his mark on rock music as Record Producer in The Eighties through his high-profile collaborations with some of the biggest names of the day. Lange started off producing such British stars as Graham Parker and the Boomtown Rats. Lange's international breakthrough came when he produced Highway To Hell, Back In Black and For Those About To Rock We Salute You for ACDC and he gained further recognition when he co-produced 4 by Foreigner with the band's leader Mick Jones. However, it's arguable that his Signature Style is best-represented by Pyromania and Hysteria, two of four hugely successful albums he co-wrote and produced with Def Leppard, and Waking Up The Neighbours by Bryan Adams. In The Nineties, Lange married country-pop superstar Shania Twain and produced her Diamond selling albums The Woman In Me, Come On Over and Up! Since their subsequent split, the famously reclusive Lange has largely retreated from public view, resurfacing to work on albums by Nickelback (Dark Horse), Maroon 5 (Hands All Over) and Lady Gaga (some production on Born This Way).
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