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Peter Walsh (born 1960) is a British record producer and engineer.
Walsh began his career as an engineer at London's Utopia Studios in the late 1970s, working with Stevie Wonder, the Tubes, Spandau Ballet and the Boomtown Rats amongst others.[1]
His breakthrough was as assistant producer on the 1981 debut studio album by Heaven 17, Penthouse and Pavement (1981). Following this success he went on to produce several artists among them Peter Gabriel, China Crisis, Gene Loves Jezebel and Simple Minds.
In 1984, Walsh produced Scott Walker's eleventh solo studio album, Climate of Hunter. Walsh has continued to work with Walker, producing and performing on his studio albums Tilt (1995), The Drift (2006), Bish Bosch (2012), and Soused (2014), a collaboration between Walker and drone metal band Sunn O))). In addition he has worked with Walker on records by Ute Lemper and Pulp.