{"id":51823,"date":"2026-08-17T22:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=51823"},"modified":"2026-08-17T22:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:08:06","slug":"the-super-producer-who-made-an-album-from-his-hospital-bed-podcast-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=51823","title":{"rendered":"The super-producer who made an album from his hospital bed \u2013 podcast | Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">He has been described as the music industry\u2019s secret weapon; a producer loved by artists such as Arctic Monkeys, Pulp and Jessie Ware. In 2024, <strong>James Ellis Ford<\/strong> was at the height of his career, working with a variety of artists that included some of the world\u2019s best-known acts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Then, he was diagnosed with leukaemia and it all ground to a halt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Isolated on a hospital ward and not allowed any visitors except his wife, he began making music as a way to pass the time. Those ideas bloomed into a full album, Lost in Another World.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">With contributions from <strong>Jarvis Cocker<\/strong> and <strong>Jessie Ware<\/strong>, <strong>Nosheen Iqbal<\/strong> hears how making music from his hospital bed helped Ford through one of the hardest periods of his life.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-vyhg7z\"><\/span> Photograph: Manuel Vazquez\/The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He has been described as the music industry\u2019s secret weapon; a producer loved by artists such as Arctic Monkeys, Pulp and Jessie Ware. In 2024, James Ellis Ford was at the height of his career, working with a variety of artists that included some of the world\u2019s best-known acts. Then, he was diagnosed with leukaemia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[299,16491,578,686,515,25192],"class_list":{"0":"post-51823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-album","9":"tag-bed","10":"tag-hospital","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-podcast","13":"tag-superproducer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}