Mike Howlett

Bassist and producer.
Born 27-Apr-1950 in Lautoka, Fiji, Howlett spent his teenage years in Australia, leaving for the UK in the 1970s as bass player with The Affair, a Sydney group who won a UK trip from the Hoadley's "Battle of the Bands" competition. In the UK, he ed The Police (but without Howlett). He subsequently began a producer career and was very successful producing bands like Flock of Seagulls, Gang of Four, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Martha and the Muffins, Berlin, Joan Armatrading, China Crisis etc...