Producer Jonny Dollar dies, aged 45

Music producer Jonny Dollar has died at the age of 45.

The trip-hop pioneer died of cancer on May 29 at the Royal Marsden hospital in London, having been diagnosed with the disease last August, Music Week reports.

Dollar produced Massive Attack's Blue Lines in 1991, which included the poll-topping single 'Unfinished Sympathy'.

He also worked with Neneh Cherry and on Gabrielle's number one album Rise.

Polydor boss Ferdy Unger-Hamilton said: "These records had a profound effect on me, 'Buffalo Stance' and 'Manchild' when I was about 14 and when I first heard 'Unfinished Sympathy' like everybody else who heard it, I don't think I could really believe what I was hearing.

"As committed and driven a producer as I've ever met, I literally had to take the tracks by force back off him, he was so determined to make them perfect. He was as tough artistically as he was gentle a person."

Dollar will be buried at a private ceremony in Cornwall, with a memorial service in London to follow. He is survived by four children and his wife Harriet.